Declan Kiberd has taught at Notre Dame for fourteen years. Before that he taught English for over three decades at UCD. He is a member of American Academy for Arts and Sciences and of Royal Irish Academy. He served on the board of directors of the Abbey Theatre and has been a visiting professor at Sorbonne, Cluj and Magdalene College Cambridge. He has published many books including Inventing Ireland which won the Truman Capote Prize for the best work of literary criticism published in 2002.