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Kit Fryatt

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E:kit.fryatt@dcu.ie

Educated University of Cambridge (BA Hons.) and Trinity College Dublin (PhD). Appointed lecturer in English at Mater Dei Institute of Education 2006. Assistant Professor at DCU since 2016.

Book

	Year	Publication
	2020	Kit Fryatt (2020) Austin Clarke. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press.
	2018	Kit Fryatt (2018) Bodyservant. Bristol: Shearsman Books.
	2012	Dr Kit Fryatt (2012) Rain Down Can. : Shearsman.
	2012	Dr Kit Fryatt (2012) turn push \| turn pull. : corrupt press.

Book Chapter

	Year	Publication
	2024	Kit Fryatt (2024) 'Queer Poetry' In: The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First-Century Irish Writing. London : Routledge. [Link] [DOI]
	2021	Kit Fryatt (2021) '1970-80s Feminism' In: A History of Irish Women's Poetry. Cambridge : Cambridge Univeristy Press.
	2020	Kit Fryatt (2020) 'Meeting a Giant: Allegory in Maurice Scully’s Things That Happen' In: A Line of Tiny Zeros in the Fabric - Essays on the Poetry of Maurice Scully. Bristol : Shearsman.
	2016	Kit Fryatt (2016) '“Mauling the music”: Southrons (and Others) Reading Briggflatts' In: Sound Is/As Sense: Essays on Modern British and Irish Poetry. Gdańsk : University of Gdańsk Press.
	2012	Dr Kit Fryatt (2012) 'Patrick Kavanagh's Potentialities' In: The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry. Oxford : Oxford University Press.
	2011	Dr Kit Fryatt (2011) ''A minster minute': Reflections on Barnsley Main Seam' In: Philip Coleman and Maria Johnston(Eds.). Reading Pearse Hutchinson: From Findrum to Fisterra. Dublin : Irish Academic Press.
	2011	Dr Kit Fryatt (2011) 'Horny morning mood: The Aubade' In: Erik Martiny(Eds.). A Companion to Poetic Genre. Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell.
	2010	Dr Kit Fryatt (2010) 'Must not attempt escape / from here and now Maurice Scully reading Brian Coffey' In: Aengus Woods and Benjamin Keatinge(Eds.). Other Edens: The Life and Work of Brian Coffey. Dublin : Irish Academic Press.
	2007	Dr Kit Fryatt (2007) 'Norms and Forms : 10 years of the British and Irish Poets e-mail list' In: Tony Lopez and Anthony Caleshu(Eds.). Poetry and Public Language. Exeter : Shearsman Books.
	2006	Dr Kit Fryatt (2006) 'Banyan riot of dialectic: Louis MacNeice's India' In: Tadhg Foley and Maureen o'connor(Eds.). Ireland and India: Colonies, Culture and Empire. Dublin : Irish Academic Press.
	2006	Dr Kit Fryatt (2006) 'Shakespeare and Berryman: Sonnet 129 and Dream Song 1' In: Philip Coleman and Philip McGowan(Eds.). After Thirty Falls: New Essays on John Berryman. Amsterdam : Rodopi.
	2003	Dr Kit Fryatt (2003) 'Bovinity: Paul Durcan's Cattle Mythology' In: Fionnuala Dillane and Ronan Kelly(Eds.). New Voices in Irish Criticism 4. Dublin : Four Courts Press.

Peer Reviewed Journal

	Year	Publication
	2017	Kit Fryatt and Kimberly Campanello (2017) 'from Hymn to Kali'. Translation Ireland, 20 (1):101-115.
	2016	Kit Fryatt (2016) 'The Poetics of Elegy in Maurice Scully's Humming'. Irish University Review, 46 (1):89-104.
	2007	Kit Fryatt (2007) 'Mind spewed: Abjection in Austin Clarke's Mnemosyne Lay in Dust'. 6 :82-98.
	2006	Dr Kit Fryatt (2006) 'Thomas Kinsella's Downstream Revisions'. Irish University Review, 36 :321-334.

Conference Contribution

	Year	Publication
	2025	Kit Fryatt (2025) Queer Irish Poetry Now - A Symposium 'Nor Priapus in Action shall equal her Fame' Transmasculine encounters with William King's The Toast Trininty College Dublin, 25/01/2025-25/01/2025.
	2024	Kit Fryatt (2024) Music-Word-Word-Music Symposium Agaynst Nyght Dublin City University, 28/11/2024-29/12/2024.
	2024	(2024) DCU Pride in Teaching & Research Give in, Amphitrite: Transmasculinity in the life and work of Mary Renault DCU, 13/06/2024-13/06/2024.
	2023	Ellen Dillon; Kit Fryatt (2023) Poetry and Care 'all things that are passing' University of Plymouth, 07/09/2023-08/09/2023.
	2021	Kit Fryatt (2021) Queering the Groove (EROSS) “Getting to the bottom: Searching for the Brothers Butch” DCU, .
	2019	Kit Fryatt (2019) Queer Modernisms III Killing the Inner Boy: Ghosts of Transmasculinity in Mary Renault and Antonia White University of Oxford, 25/04/2019-26/04/2019.
	2016	Kit Fryatt (2016) Bullies, Bullied and Bystanders: Consent, Coercion and Detachment: Sexuality in English Public-School Novels, 1905-1953 DCU, 09/06/2016-10/06/2016.
	2014	Kit Fryatt; Michael Hinds (2014) Word and Image: Imagining Japan Word and Image: Imagining Japan Mater Dei Institute of Education, 14/07/2014-16/07/2014.
	2011	Kit Fryatt (2011) Dublintellectual conversations on culture ‘Must talk for an hour: teaching and performing poetry’ UCD, Dublin, 27/11/2011-27/11/2011.
	2011	(2011) Poetry and Process Poetry and Process Mater Dei Institute of Education, 18/06/2011-18/06/2011.
	2010	Kit Fryatt (2010) European Society for the Study of English annual conference ‘Mauling the music’: Southrons (and others) reading Briggflatts University of Turin, 24/08/2010-28/08/2010.
	2009	Kit Fryatt (2009) Delirious Circumference: A Celebration of the Work of Paul Durcan The Sublime Paul Durcan Trinity College Dublin, 10/12/2009-10/12/2009.
	2008	Kit Fryatt (2008) Poetry and Education Conference Organiser Mater Dei Insitute of Education, 22/02/2008-23/02/2008.
	2007	Kit Fryatt (2007) ‘ Poetry and Public Language, University of Plymouth, 30 March-1 April 2007 Norms and Forms: 10 Years of the British and Irish Poets e-mail list’ University of Plymouth, 30/03/2007-01/04/2007.
	2007	Kit Fryatt (2007) Louis MacNeice: Centenary Conference and Celebration ‘Paradox of a Sentimentalist: Reassessing MacNeice’s Middle Stretch Queen's University Belfast, 15/09/2007-17/09/2007.
	2007	Kit Fryatt (2007) Pearse Hutchinson: an 80th Birthday Symposium 'A minster minute': Pearse Hutchinson and English cultural memory Trinity College Dublin, 14/12/2007-15/12/2007.
	2005	Kit Fryatt (2005) IASIL: Double Vision: Liminal Identities ‘ “Alone, important and wise”: Paul Durcan Speaking for Francis Stuart’ University College Dublin, 18/03/2005-20/03/2005.
	2004	(2004) Fourth Galway Conference on Colonialism: Ireland and India ‘ “Banyan Riot of Dialectic”: Louis MacNeice’s India’, Ireland and India NUI Galway, 04/06/2004-06/06/2004.
	2003	(2003) New Voices in Irish Criticism ‘Mind Spewed: abjection in Austin Clarke’s Mnemosyne Lay in Dust University College Cork, 07/02/2003-09/02/2003.
	2002	(2002) Occasions of Translation Study Day ‘Resonance and Gloss: A Reading of Thomas Kinsella’s New Poems 1973’ Trinity College Dublin, .
	2002	(2002) New Voices in Irish Criticism ‘Bovinity: Paul Durcan’s Cattle Mythology’ Trinity College Dublin, 01/02/2002-03/02/2003.
	2001	Kit Fryatt (2001) EFACIS: Ireland and Europe in Times of Re-orientation and Re-imagining “The Whole Tedious Enabling Ritual”: Ornamental Diction in Thomas Kinsella’s Poetry’ University of Aarhus, 06/12/2001-09/12/2001.

Booklet

	Year	Publication
	2014	Kit Fryatt (2014) 'chatter\|ratchet'. BOOKLET

Other Journal

	Year	Publication
	2023	Kit Fryatt (2023) '9 Numbers i.m. Maurice Scully (1952-2023)' Poetry Ireland Review, (141) :50-57.
	2022	Kit Fryatt (2022) 'Tumblresque Nerdcore: Zines, Poetry and Queerness' Trumpet, (11) :4-6.
	2022	Kenneth Keating; David Wheatley; Justin Quinn; Aisling Maguire; Vona Groarke; Conor O'Callaghan; Maria Johnston; Philip Coleman; Kit Fryatt (2022) 'Oral History: Metre Poetry Magazine: 1996-2005' The Stinging Fly, 46:2 :161-175.
	2010	Kit Fryatt (2010) ''“AW.DAH.” an allegorical reading of Maurice Scully’s Things That Happen'' POST: a Review of Poetry Studies, :60-87. [Link]
	2010	Kit Fryatt (2010) 'After the pulping [review of Hurting God, by Rita Ann Higgins]' The Irish Times, .
	2008	Kit Fryatt (2008) '“Process, product and a peacock,” [review of What's in Store, by Trevor Joyce]' The Irish Times, .
	2005	Kit Fryatt (2005) ''Which is where we really are' Irish neo-modernism and the practical critic' Cyphers, 58 :49-54.
	2005	Maurice Scully, Kit Fryatt (2005) 'Maurice Scully: Interview' METRE, 17 :134-143.
	2004	Kit Fryatt (2004) 'Unassuming Legislators: Carl Rakosi’s Prose' METRE, (15) .

Book Review

	Year	Publication
	2012	Kit Fryatt (2012) '‘[review of Anamaría Crowe Serrano, one columbus leap, James Cummins, Flash Bang and David Toms, Soma \| Sema]’. BREV
	2011	Kit Fryatt (2011) [review of Marjorie Perloff, Unoriginal Genius: poetry by other means in the new century]. BREV
	2010	Kit Fryatt (2010) '‘The condition of being generally unbearable’ [book review]'. BREV
	2009	Kit Fryatt (2009) [Review of Arthur Drooker, American Ruins]. BREV [Link]
	2009	Kit Fryatt (2009) Tunes are Obligatory [review of Drives by Leontia Flynn; MUDe by John Redmond]. BREV
	2009	Kit Fryatt (2009) [review of Paula Meehan, Painting Rain]. BREV [Link]
	2008	Kit Fryatt (2008) Loaded with Fruit [review of Selected Poems by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin]. BREV
	2007	Kit Fryatt (2007) Half-fierce [review of Selected Poems by Thomas Kinsella; Man of War by Thomas Kinsella; Belief and Unbelief by Thomas Kinsella]. BREV
	2007	Kit Fryatt (2007) Not At All Bad [book review]. BREV
	2004	Kit Fryatt (2004) Re: Reading [review of Peter Reading, Collected Poems, 3: Poems 1997-2003]. BREV
	2003	Kit Fryatt (2003) Seeking and Finding a Difficulty [review of Carol Ann Duffy, Feminine Gospels, Picador Alice Oswald, Dart, Faber]. BREV
	2002	Kit Fryatt (2002) Ruins of Angel Republic [review of Andrew Zawacki, By Reason of Breakings, University of Georgia Press Peter Carpenter, The Black-Out Book, Arc Publications]. BREV
	2001	Kit Fryatt (2001) 'Well' [review of Fleur Adcock, Poems 1960-2000]. BREV

Thesis

	Year	Publication
	2003	Kit Fryatt (2003) Allegorical making: Austin Clarke, Louis MacNeice, Thomas Kinsella. THES

Encyclopedia Entry

	Year	Publication
	2008	Kit Fryatt (2008) St Brendan the Navigator. Santa Barbara CA: ENC
	2008	Kit Fryatt (2008) Paul Muldoon. Santa Barbara CA: ENC
	2008	Kit Fryatt (2008) Thomas Kinsella. Santa Barbara CA: ENC
	2008	Kit Fryatt (2008) Maeve M. Brennan. Santa Barbara CA: ENC

Book Review

	Year	Publication
	2011	Kit Fryatt (2011) The Soft Underbelly of Dave Lordan. [Link]

Invited Lectures

	Year	Publication
	2012	(2012) turn push \| turn pull: poetry and internal geometry. INVL
	2008	(2008) ‘How to Resist a Ballad: Three Women Writers Tackle Tam Lin’, Invited Lecture, University of Coimbra, Portugal. INVL
	2007	(2007) Yeats as Allegorist, 48th Yeats International Summer School. INVL

Other Publication

	Year	Publication
	2020	(2020) 'Refusal', in Counterclaims: Poets and Poetries, Talking Back. Dallas, TX: PUBL

Employment

Employer	Position	From / To
St Patrick's College	Part-time tutor	01/10/2000 - 31/05/2002
Trinity College, University of Dublin	Part-time tutor	01/10/2000 - 31/12/2003
University of Manchester	Temporary Lecturer in Irish Literature	01/01/2004 - 31/08/2004
University College Dublin	Teaching Fellow	01/09/2004 - 30/09/2005
IRCHSS	Post-Doctoral Fellow	01/10/2005 - 01/09/2006
Mater Dei Institute of Education	Lecturer in English	01/09/2006 - 31/08/2016
Dublin City University	Assistant Professor	01/09/2016 -

Education

	Start date	Institution	Qualification	Subject
		University of Cambridge	B.A.	English
		Trinity College, University of Dublin	Ph.D.	Thesis title: "Allegorical Making: Austin Clarke, Louis MacNeice, Thomas Kinsella".

Other Activities

	Description
	Mentor for transgender writers under a programme organised by the Trans Writers Union and Small Trans Library Dublin

Creative Outputs

Year	Title	Type
2025	Invited poetry performance at Transforming the Canon \| Diverse Perspectives in Literary Studies, National Library of Ireland, 21st February 2025	Poetry
2025	'Walk: Winkler Preserve, Alexandria', in Flare 25	Poetry
2024	'Goosegrief' in Flare 24	Poetry
2024	'Much to the Man is Due' in Tower, Vol. 3, Family	Poetry
2024	I ♡ LOU: poetry performance in celebration of Lou Sullivan	Poetry
2023	'origin story' in Pride Poets: an LGBTQ+ poetry anthology	Poetry
2023	'sometime in the first half', in Stony Thursday Book 45 (19 in the new series) ed. Christodoulos Makris	Poetry
2022	Culture Night at MoLI	Poetry
2022	'Blades' in Romance Options: Love poems for today (Dublin:Dedalus Press, 2022)	Poetry
2022	'Yellowpack spleen: Nothing With Nothing" in The Stinging Fly, 46:2 (June 2022)	Poetry
2022	'shadow once complete'	Composition
2021	Your Favourite Irish Trans Writer	Recording
2021	States of Flux	Recording
2021	'staves' in Local Wonders, Poems of our immediate surrounds (Dublin: Dedalus Press, 2021)	Poetry
2021	Finding Ourselves: Writing through the Queer Archive	Recording
2021	'Listing' in Impossible Archetype 10	Poetry
2021	'The Frail Hart', 'A Pair after Baudelaire' 'Potcock his summonis', 'Listing', 'Dawning on me' in Queering The Green, ed. Paul Maddern (Belfast: Lifeboat Books, 2021)	Poetry
2018	Bodyservant	Poetry
2018	'Mine owne Ned Poins', 'Jalouse', Hero'	Poetry
2018	DCU Anam Festival	Poetry
2017	'Hours Apart' and 'palais : marches : marais : mer : pervenches'	Poetry
2017	'Pros of the Transsiberian and Little Flint of the Ronson'	Poetry
2017	Hymn to Kali	Poetry
2015	Discussion and performance with Marvin Gaye Chetwynd as part of the installation "The King Must Die", Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 23rd August 2015	Artwork
2015	'Kestrel', Hooded Crow'	Poetry
2015	The Word, Drogheda Arts Festival	Poetry
2015	Poem, 'Child 83' in Paris Lit Up 3	Poetry
2014	‘Yes, But Are We Enemies?’, Irish Writers Centre, Dublin, and Rich Mix Arts Centre, London, September 2014. Collaborations with Kimberly Campanello and John Kearns for S.J. Fowler’s ‘Enemies’ Project.	Poetry
2014	'scratch moniker' in Centrifugal: Contemporary Poetry from Dublin and Guadalajara	Poetry
2014	Poem, 'Splice' in Dusie 16	Poetry
2014	Poem, 'Bulbulum altin kafeste', in Glitter is a Gender, ed. So Mayer and Sarah Crewe	Poetry
2013	Performance at Winter Warmer Festival, Sample Studios, Cork	Poetry
2013	Poem, Sirventes in New Planet Cabaret, ed. Dave Lordan	Poetry
2013	Five Poems in The Argotist Online	Poetry
2013	Poems, 'I find' and 'fulminate'	Poetry
2013	‘3x Distilled’, Collaborations Festival, Smock Alley Theatre	Poetry
2012	Guest Poet in the O'Bheal series	Poetry
2013	Peep: Anatomy, Georges’ Square Gardens, Edinburgh Fringe Festival.	Poetry
2012	Rain Down Can	Poetry
2012	'Líadan & Curithir' and 'twenty-one notes on a lost observance' in Bone Orchard Poetry	Poetry
2012	Electric Picnic, Stradbally, Co Laois, Ireland, two performances as part of the Poetry Ireland programme,	Poetry
2012	'Purgatorino' in Famous Reporter 43	Poetry
2012	'Sunday and somebody Was Dead' in Upstairs at Duroc 13	Poetry
2012	'from Erscotz', 'Lock', 'Gospel from the Waning Middle Ages', in The Drunken Boat	Poetry
2012	Poem, 'Sounds Like Sense', in Catechism: Poems for Pussy riot, ed. Sarah Crew, So Mayer and Maddie Burnhope	Poetry
2012	turn push \| turn pull	Poetry
2012	Poetry Performance at Nighthawks at the Cobalt	Poetry
2011	reading of translations from The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry, with Ciaran Carson, Patrick Crotty, and Bernard O’Donoghue.	Poetry
2011	Mindfield Word Tent, Electric Picnic	Poetry
2011	Performance for 'Vision Hour Cabaret', Flat Lake Festival	Poetry
2011	'Azalais' in qaartsiluni	Poetry
2011	Upstart Public Art Project	Exhibition
2010	'Ghastlymake' in Material Poetry	Poetry
2010	Illustrated poem, 'do this i do' in Punt 1:4	Poetry
2010	Poems 'Poem including history', 'Poem occluding history', 'Unlike ourselves', 'Relinquish song' in Shearsman 83/84	Poetry
2010	Nine literary translations in The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry	Poetry
2010	'Tree Law' and 'Wardlesmake' in The Stinging Fly 15:2	Poetry
2009	Poems, 'Listening to Planxty at Portarlington Station, 6.59am' and 'Halfling' in The Shop 29	Poetry
2010	Winner of the Stinging Fly Prize for 'Ghastlymake',	Poetry
2009	'Ghastlymake', in the Stinging Fly 14:2	Poetry
2008	Wurm im Apfel, Wurmfest, Wurm Press	Poetry
2007	'Three Translations from the Exeter Book' in The European English Messenger 16:1	Poetry
2007	Poem, 'dorade' in 'On Literature and Science', ed. Philip Coleman	Poetry
2006	Makepace: Two Stories, in Cyphers 61	Fiction
2006	'Caoimhghin Shea' in Poetry Ireland Review 88	Poetry
2006	Poem, 'The Repository of Images' in Skald 23	Poetry
2006	'Trying to get home before the silence' in Famous Reporter 33	Poetry
2004	'A Memorable Fancy' in Cyphers 56	Poetry
2005	selected for Poetry Ireland Introductions series	Poetry
2003	Two poems, 'Of Risk and Care' and 'The song of Pentecost', in REA: Religion, Education and the Arts'	Poetry
2000	'Traditional' and 'The Warp', in Cyphers 51	Poetry

Media

Title	Year	Type	Authors
How Austin Clarke's mental health coloured his poetry	2021	Other	Kit Fryatt
The Culture File Weekly Mar 26th: Jennifer Walshe, Claire Halpin; Michelle Doyle; Kit Fryatt	2022	Radio Interviews	Kit Fryatt, Luke Clancy
An Evening with Ocean Vuong	2024	Other	Kit Fryatt, Ocean Vuong

Research Interests

Poetry, creative writing, LGBTQ+ writing.

Current Postgraduate Students

	Student Name	Degree	Supervision
	Isac ,Ashly	PhD-track	Supervisor
	Finn ,Angela	PhD-track	Supervisor