Dr Rosie Lavan

BIOGRAPHY

After reading English at St Anne’s College, Oxford, Rosie trained as a journalist at City University, London. She worked on the business desk at The Times for two years, as a media assistant to a London MEP during the European elections in 2009, and for House of Lords Hansard. She returned to Oxford for postgraduate study in 2010 and completed her doctorate, ‘Seamus Heaney and Society, 1964 – 1994’, in 2014. She held stipendiary lectureships in English at St Hugh’s and St Anne’s Colleges in 2014-15, before joining the School of English at Trinity College, Dublin in September 2015.