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Peter van de Kamp
Visiting Associate Professor

 
  Born in The Hague, Holland, I took my M.A. and Diploma in Education at the University of Leiden, where I taught from 1977 to 1980. I did my Ph.D. on late 19c. and early 20c. Anglo-Irish Literature at University College Dublin, where I started teaching in 1982. I got tenure at the Dept of English, Leiden University in 1986, and headed Language Acquisition. In 1989 I was awarded a Newman Scholarship, UCD's prestigious three-year research fellowship. Subsequently I taught at the I.T. Tralee, where I am developing a comprehensive Humanities programme. I have published 18 books--biographies, anthologies, criticism, monographs, manuscript editions, translations and original poetry. Founder and director of K.I.S.S. (the Kerry International Summer School of Living Irish Authors); director of Mangan Publishing; executive editor of the Mangan series; advisory editor, Irish Academic Press. Editor of Irish Literature. The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century.