Publications of Helen Lojek
Books
Contexts for Frank McGuinness's Drama.
Catholic University of America Press. 2004. (Winner, Robert Rhodes Award for Best Book on a Literary Subject, from the American Conference for Irish Studies)
Editor, The Theatre of Frank McGuinness: Stages in Mutability.
Carysfort Press, 2002.
Chapters and Articles
"Parallel Melodies in Tom Murphy's A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer's Assistant and Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. "
Tom Murphy at 75: Essays on the Work of a Major Irish Playwright. Ed. Christopher Murray. Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2009.
"Playing Together: William Shakespeare and Frank McGuinness."
Shakespeare and the Irish Writer. Ed. Stephen O'Neill. University College Dublin Press, 2009.
"Space in Wonderful Tennessee."
Irish Theatre International. Ed. Paul Murphy. Spring 2009.
"'Too Clever for Belfast'? Stewart Parker's Joyce in June."
Essays on Stewart Parker. Ed. Mark Phelan. Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2009.
"The Neglected Stepchild of IrishTheater."
Rev. of Making Theatre in Northern Ireland Through and Beyond the Troubles,
by Tom Maguire, and Four Plays: 'Inventing Women's Work,' Charabanc Theatre
Company, by Claudia Harris. Irish Literary Supplement. Fall 2008. 13-14.
"Not So Sainted: Mothers on the Contemporary Irish Stage."
Forthcoming. Portrayals of Mothers. Ed. Anna Andes. Edwin Mellen Press, Spring 2007.
"Observe the Sons of Ulster: Historical Stages." Echoes Down the Corridor: Irish Theatre-Past, Present, and Future.
Ed. Patrick Lonergan and Riana O'Dwyer. IASIL Studies in Irish Writing. Carysfort Press: Dublin, 2007. 81-93.
"Northern Ireland and the Troubles."
A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama (1880-2005). Ed. Mary Luckhurst. Oxford U.K.: Blackwell, 2006. 329-40.
Review. Observe the Sons of Ulster (Barry College Theatre Department Production).
Working Papers in Irish Studies (06-4), 30-1.
"Man, Woman, Soldier: Heaney's 'In Memoriam Francis Ledwidge' and Boland's 'Heroic.'"
New Hibernia Review. (Spring 2006). 122-38.
"Dancing at Lughnasa and the Unfinished Revolution."
Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel. Ed. Anthony Roche. Cambridge UP. 2006. 78-90.
"Spatial Metaphors in Frank McGuinness's Gates of Gold."
Études Irlandaises.29:2 (Fall 2005) 151-64.