Kate O'brien

Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka is a lecturer at American College Dublin. She has published widely in the areas of modernism, Irish Studies, popular culture, and drama studies. She is the author of the monographs The Postcolonial Traveller: Kate O’Brien and the Basques (2016), and Kate O’Brien and the Fiction of Identity (2011). Mentxaka is a former ‘Government of Ireland’ post-doctoral fellow with the National University of Ireland, and twice fellow with the Irish Research Council. She completed her PhD in University College Dublin. Mentxaka has also worked as a lecturer at University College Dublin, at Saint Patrick’s College in Dublin City University, and as educator at the Irish Museum of Modern Art.