Eve Patten is Professor in the School of English at Trinity College, Dublin. A graduate of Oxford University, she worked for the British Council in Eastern Europe before taking up a lectureship at Trinity in the mid-1990s. She has published widely on Irish and British writing of the modern period, and teaches on nineteenth-century realist fiction, the modern English novel, and Irish cultural and literary history. She was made a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin in 2006, and in 2020 she was appointed as Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute.