Dr Damian Maher
Literature, Philosophy
Examination Fellow since 2021
I work at the intersection of literature, philosophy (especially moral philosophy), and psychology in the long twentieth century. I am finalising a monograph, Reading to Perfection: Henry James among the Moral Philosophers, for Oxford University Press. I am beginning a project tentatively titled Fictions of the Inner World, which will explore the influence of literature and interpretation among British Independent Psychoanalysts. I have work in (or forthcoming) in Modern Philology, Critical Quarterly, Genre, the Henry James Review, The Review of English Studies, Essays and Criticism as well as public venues like the The Times Literary Supplement and the Sydney Review of Books.
Research Areas
Literature and Philosophy
Medical Humanities
Psychoanalysis
Victorian Period
Modern and Contemporary
Queer Theory
Selected Publications
Maher, D. (2025) The Laugh of the Tramp.
A Whale of a Time: Christopher Bollas on Transformational Aesthetic Experience. Genre.
Maher, D. (2027, forthcoming)
Maher, D. and Steel, C. eds. Art and Compulsion (a special issue of Modern Philology).
(2028, forthcoming)