Biography

Professor Terence Dolan, born in London of Cavan parents,  was Hastings Senior Scholar at The Queen’s College, Oxford, before coming to UCD, where he is Co-ordinator of Research in the School of English, Drama, and Film, and Director of the hiberno-english.com website. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.  He was founding Director of the UCD JYA Program in 1986  and  Director of the International James Joyce Summer School. He has written and produced  two promotional videos on the UCD Faculty of Arts.   Twice he was appointed National Endowment for the Humanities  Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Humanities at the University of Richmond, Virginia (1986 and 1992). In 1992 He was Jefferson Smurfit Fellow at the University of Missiouri-Rolla. He is a well-known Broadcaster on the two main national Irish stations, RTE radio and Newstalk 106,  and has regularly broadcast on BBC Radio 4.  Trained in Oxford,  he is an internationally distinguished  Lexicographer and is author of the standard Dictionary of Hiberno-English: The Irish Use of English, with editions published in 1998, 1999, 2004, and 2006, and a new revised, expanded edition to be published in November, 2008. He has published and lectured widely on Hiberno-English and on medieval literature, including Geoffrey Chaucer, on whom he has collaborated with the former Python, Terry Jones. He is a contributor to The Oxford Companion to Irish History and to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.  He has been Extern Examiner for doctorates at Trinity College, Dublin, and the Sorbonne,  and has given seminars and delivered papers on Hiberno-English and Medieval Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Georgetown, Cairo, Sao Paulo, London, Paris IV-Sorbonne,  Beijing, Nanjing, Halle-Wittenberg, Munich, Copenhagen, Potsdam, Veliko Turnovo (Bulgaria), Oslo, Amsterdam, Dijon , Helsinki,  Brussels, Nova Scotia, Utrecht, and Harvard, as well as many other American universities.

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