Jenny Farrell

Jenny Farrell was born in Berlin, German Democratic Republic (GDR). She grew up in a bilingual German-Scottish-Irish family, where from an early age she was familiar with the literature and music of these traditions. She graduated from Humboldt University Berlin in 1980, with a BA and a B Ed in English and German. The same university awarded her a PhD in English Romantic Literature in 1985. Dr Farrell's dissertation "Keats: The Progress of the Odes: Unity and Utopia" was published in Bremer...See more

Jenny Farrell was born in Berlin, German Democratic Republic (GDR). She grew up in a bilingual German-Scottish-Irish family, where from an early age she was familiar with the literature and music of these traditions. She graduated from Humboldt University Berlin in 1980, with a BA and a B Ed in English and German. The same university awarded her a PhD in English Romantic Literature in 1985. Dr Farrell's dissertation "Keats: The Progress of the Odes: Unity and Utopia" was published in Bremer Beitr�ge zur Literatur- und Ideologiegeschichte, vol. 6, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 1989. She has lived in Ireland since 1985, working as a lecturer in GMIT. Her main fields of interest are Irish and English poetry and the work of William Shakespeare. In 2016, Nuasc�alta published Jenny Farrell's book "Fear Not Shakespeare's Tragedies: A Comprehensive Introduction." See less