Fund for Irish Studies Past Faculty

Clair Wills

Clair Wills headshot

Photo courtesy Clair Wills

About

Clair Wills, the incoming Leonard L. Milberg '53 Chair of Irish Letters at Princeton, formerly taught at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Essex. A co-editor of The Field Day Anthology of Irish Women's Writing and Traditions (2002), she has written five books, including Improprieties: Politics and Sexuality in Northern Irish Poetry (1994), That Neutral Island: A History of Ireland During the Second World War (2007), and Dublin 1916: the Siege of the GPO (2009). She won the International PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History for That Neutral Island. Her most recent study, The Best Are Leaving published by Cambridge University Press, examines the literature and culture of post-war Irish emigration to Britain. Her reviews have appeared in The Irish Times, Times Literary Supplement and London Review of Books.

Email Address

cwills@princeton.edu