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Douglas N. Archibald
Faculty Member (Retired)
English



Email:
dnarchib@colby.edu

Areas of Expertise:
  • Modern Irish literature and culture
  • W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heany, Eavan Boland, William Trevor, Michael Longley
  • British literature since 1700
  • Editing a humanities quarterly, Colby Quarterly
  • Professional Information

    Doug Archibald teaches and writes about 18th- and 20th-century British literature and culture, and about Irish studies, especially modern and contemporary. The authors in whom he is most interested include Swift, Burke, Austen, Yeats, Joyce, MacNiece, Trevor, Heaney, Boland, and Longley. He has also served as Editor of The Colby Quarterly.