{"id":1554,"date":"2019-08-28T10:55:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T14:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=1554"},"modified":"2025-11-21T09:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:20:18","slug":"meg-tyler","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/profile\/meg-tyler\/","title":{"rendered":"Meg Tyler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meg Tyler is an associate professor of humanities in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/\">College of General Studies<\/a>. Her teaching and research interests include ethical philosophy, Irish studies, lyric poetry, creative writing, poetry in translation and the intersection of art and literature. She has published<em><\/em> a chapbook of poems in the New Women\u2019s Voices\u2019 Series. She directs a poetry series and chairs the Institute for the Study of Irish Culture. Her book on Seamus Heaney,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/A-Singing-Contest-Conventions-of-Sound-in-the-Poetry-of-Seamus-Heaney\/Tyler\/p\/book\/9780415867221\">A Singing Contest: Conventions of Sound in the Poetry of Seamus<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.routledge.com\/books\/details\/9780415867221\/\"> Heaney<\/a>, was published by Routledge in their series, Major Literary Authors. Her poetry chapbook, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finishinglinepress.com\/product\/poor-earth-by-meg-tyler-nwvs-107\/\">Poor Earth<\/a><\/em>, came out from Finishing Line Press in 2014. Her poems and prose have appeared in\u00a0<em>Agni, Literary Imagination, Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, Irish Revie<\/em>w and other journals. A chapter on Heaney\u2019s last two volumes recently appeared in\u00a0<em>\u201cThe Soul Exceeds Its Circumstances\u201d: The Later Poetry of Seamus Heaney<\/em>, edited by Eugene O\u2019Brien (Notre Dame University Press, 2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9557,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9557"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4277,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1554\/revisions\/4277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}