Dr Stephen Enniss, Leverhulme Fellow (August 2002 to June 2003)
Curator of Literary Collections at Emory University, which includes the Mahon Archives, Dr Enniss's research project was concentrated on a critical biography of Derek Mahon, examining 'Mahon's life-long preoccupation with loss and the mutable arguing that his art has its source in the persistent desire for that which is beyond all recovery.' Mahon's work takes 'the form of a restoration of personal or collective history, that is achievable only provisionally in the formal achievement of his poems'.
Dr Ennis gave a seminar in the Dean's Seminar Series on 16th October 2002 : "'Some Rich Myth of Reconciliation’: Derek Mahon and the Poetry of Redemptive Form"
