David Gardiner

Director of the College of Arts and Sciences' Center for Irish Studies and Editor of New Hibernia Review, Dr. David Gardiner received his degrees from University College Galway, Penn State University and his PhD from Loyola University, Chicago. He was founding editor of the international arts journal, An Sionnach, which published Van Morrison, Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, Paula Meehan, Ciaran Carson, Theo Dorgan and Eamonn Wall, among others. He has served as Burns Scholar at Boston College, Director of Irish Studies at Creighton University where, for 10 years, he directed the largest summer program at Trinity College Dublin, and as UK Arts Fellow at the University of Ulster Coleraine (Northern Ireland). He has authored more than 60 journal publications and five books, including the Salmon poetry collections Downstate (2009) and The Chivalry of Crime (2015). His collection, Skenographia, was published in 2024 by Salmon Press (Ireland). In 2025, he published the introduction to the first U.S. edition of Tim Robinson's Connemara Trilogy (Milkweed Editions). He has toured extensively through the U.S. and Ireland presenting readings.