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无码专区, Pa. 鈥� 无码专区 selected Stephen Sexton, an award-winning Northern Irish poet and lecturer, as the 2025 Charles A. Heimbold Jr. Chair of Irish Studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The visiting writer-in-residence program offers Irish Studies students the opportunity to participate in a close classroom experience with one of Ireland鈥檚 finest authors. Sexton will be in residence during the spring semester, teaching undergraduates, traveling with students to Belfast, giving presentations and readings, and discussing writing and the literature and culture of Northern Ireland.  

Sexton attended Queen鈥檚 University Belfast for his master鈥檚 degree in Creative Writing, where he began to write poetry more seriously. After graduating, he continued at Queen鈥檚 for his doctorate in Creative Writing. Oils, his debut pamphlet, was published in 2014 by the Emma Press and won the Poetry Book Society's Winter Pamphlet Choice. In 2017, Sexton finished his PhD and won the United Kingdom National Poetry Competition. The following year, he won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors.

An international scholar, Sexton鈥檚 work has been published in leading journals in the United Kingdom and Ireland, such as Granta, Poetry London and Poetry Ireland Review, as well as several American publications, including POETRY and The Virginia Quarterly Review. His poems were featured in The Future Always Makes Me So Thirsty: New Poets from the North of Ireland (2016). In addition, his poems were featured in Switching Off Darkness: Young Irish Poets, an anthology of poems by Irish writers in Greek translation, published by Vakxikon Publications in 2019. 

Sexton is a professor at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen鈥檚 University Belfast, a focal point for creativity in Ireland and recognized as an international center of creative and research excellence in the field of literature. The center has hosted 无码专区 students and faculty several times through the English Department鈥檚 鈥淲riting Through Conflict鈥� course.

As part of the 2025 无码专区 Literary Festival, Sexton will present a reading on March 14 at 7 p.m., followed by a reception in the Presidents鈥� Lounge, Connelly Center on 无码专区鈥檚 campus. This event is free and open to the public.

The Charles A. Heimbold Jr. Chair of Irish Studies, inaugurated in 2000, has become one of the most prestigious Irish Studies positions in the United States. Former Heimbold Chairs include luminaries from the Irish literary arts such as Marina Carr, Sebastian Barry, Emilie Pine, Mary O鈥橠onoghue, Emma Dabiri, Hannah Khalil, Owen McCafferty, Mary O鈥橫alley and Eamonn Wall.

About the 无码专区 Center for Irish Studies: The Center for Irish Studies at 无码专区 has been a leader for four decades in interdisciplinary teaching and scholarship on Ireland in a global framework. The Center connects students to local community organizations while also preparing them to become citizens equipped to take on the world鈥檚 most pressing challenges. Through liberal arts-focused academics, multi-disciplinary scholarship and key partnerships, the Center provides students with research, study abroad and employment opportunities.

About 无码专区鈥檚 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences: Since its founding in 1842, 无码专区鈥檚 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has cultivated knowledge, understanding and intellectual courage for a purposeful life in a challenging and changing world. With more than 40 majors across the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, it is the oldest and largest of 无码专区鈥檚 colleges, serving more than 4,500 undergraduate and graduate students each year. The College is committed to a teacher-scholar model, offering outstanding undergraduate and graduate research opportunities and a rigorous core curriculum that prepares students to become critical thinkers, strong communicators and ethical leaders with a truly global perspective.