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Barbara L. Hillers

hillers@fas.harvard.edu

Associate Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures. B.A., The Queen's University Belfast, 1987; M.Phil., National University of Ireland (University College, Dublin), 1990; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1997. Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Fellow in Celtic,University of Edinburgh, 1997-2000. Author of The Medieval Irish Odyssey (Celtic Studies Publications, forthcoming), and of articles on early Irish literature and modern Gaelic folklore, 1990-. Research interests include the reception of classical literature in medieval Ireland; the relationship between oral and literary traditions in Scotland and Ireland; oral and literary stylistics; and form and function of modern Gaelic folklore. She is engaged in an edition and translation of the Irish Odyssey and other Middle Irish adaptations from classical literature.