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Rebecca Tierney-Hynes studied at the University of Toronto where she earned her PhD. She has taught at Suffolk University and the University of Waterloo before joining the University of Edinburgh in 2017. Her research interests encompass eighteenth-century comedy, Scottish theatre history, and the applications of empiricist models in literary absorption. She has authored the forthcoming book 'Laughing Matters' under contract with Oxford University Press, along with another publication titled 'Novel Minds' from Palgrave in 2012. Her research explores the interactions between comic playwrights, literary critics, and the concept of self-making in the eighteenth century. She also collaborates on projects related to Scottish drama and music, specifically the 'Cultures of Performance in Eighteenth-Century Scotland'. Tierney-Hynes has supervised several PhD students and is open to proposals in areas related to eighteenth-century literature and intellectual history.
University of Edinburgh • Edinburgh
Teaching and researching in the field of English Literature.
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