Clair Wills is King Edward VII Professor of English Literature in the Faculty of English of the University of Cambridge, based at Murray Edwards College. She was previously Leonard L. Milberg Profesoor of Irish Letters at Princeton University, after teaching at Queen Mary, University of London, and the University of Essex. She has published widely on Irish literature and culture, and edited of the ‘Contemporary Writing’ section of the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, volume IV, published as The Field Day Anthology of Irish Women's Writing (2002). Her books include Reading Paul Muldoon (Bloodaxe Books, 1998); That Neutral Island: A History of Ireland during the Second World War (Faber & Faber, 2007), winner of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History 2007; Dublin 1916: The Siege of the GPO (Profile Books, 2010); The Best Are Leaving: Emigration and Post-War Irish Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2015); Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain (Allen Lane, 2017); and Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets (Allen Lane, 2024).
