Marilynn Richtarik

Marilynn Richtarik is an American professor of English at Georgia State University who teaches English literature and specialises in 20th-century literature from Northern Ireland.[1] She is the biographer of Belfast playwright Stewart Parker.[2]

Richtarick was raised in Lawrence, Kansas[1] and was educated at Harvard University and at Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.[3]

In 2017, as a Fulbright Scholar, she researched and taught at Queen's University Belfast.[4]

Publications

  • Getting to Good Friday: Literature and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 274 pp. ISBN 9780192886408[5][6]
  • Richtarik, Marilynn (2019). "Forging a Usable Past: Brian Friel's Making History". ELH: English Literary History. 86 (4): 1089–1123. doi:10.1353/elh.2019.0040. ISSN 0013-8304. JSTOR 26866629.
  • Stewart Parker: A Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 448 pp. ISBN 978-0199695034[2]
  • Richtarik, Marilynn (2002). "Stewart Parker at Queen's University, Belfast". The Irish Review. 29 (29): 58–69. doi:10.2307/29736073. JSTOR 29736073.
  • Acting Between The Lines: The Field Day Theatre Company and Irish Cultural Politics 1980–1984. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. 356 pp. ISBN 9780198182474[7]

As editor

Personal life

Richtarik married journalist Matt Bolch in 2001.[8] They have a son together.

References

  1. 1 2 "Profile with Marilynn Richtarik". The Rhodes Project. 2023. Retrieved 14 May 2026.
  2. 1 2 Wallace, Clare (28 October 2014). "Marilynn Richtarik, Stewart Parker: A Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 419 pages. £32 GBP". Irish University Review. 44 (2): 423–427. doi:10.3366/iur.2014.0138.
  3. ↑ "Getting to Good Friday: Author Information". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 14 May 2026.
  4. ↑ "Marilynn Richtarik". Fulbright Scholar Program. Retrieved 14 May 2026.
  5. ↑ Pelletier, Martine (2023). "Marilynn Richtarik, Getting to Good Friday: Literature and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland". Études irlandaises. 48 (2): 137–138. doi:10.4000/etudesirlandaises.17671.
  6. ↑ Fitzpatrick, Maurice (2025). "Review of Getting to Good Friday: Literature and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland, by Marilynn Richtarik". Review of Irish Studies in Europe. 8 (1): 1–4. doi:10.32803/rise.v8i1.3351.
  7. ↑ Murray, C. (Autumn 1995). "Review – Acting Between The Lines: The Field Day Theatre Company and Irish Cultural Politics 1980–1984. By Marilynn J. Richtarik. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. Pp. 356. £35". Theatre Research International. 20 (3): 290–291. doi:10.1017/S030788330000883X.
  8. ↑ "John Harvard's Journal" (PDF). Harvard Magazine. November–December 2001. p. 96F. Retrieved 14 May 2026.
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