Robert McCrum, 'After Room, Emma Donoghue's latest novel shows that she is a true original,' Independent March 2025, https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/books/features/emma-donoghue-room-new-book-paris-express-novel-b2716611.html
Conversation with Allegra Goodman, https://lithub.com/allegra-goodman-and-emma-donoghue-on-writing-stories-inspired-by-their-kids-and-their-books/
James Little, 'Confinement and the Transnational in Emma Donoghue's Room,' Open Library of Humanities 8 (2), 2022, Special Collection: Local and Universal in Irish Literature and Culture, https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/8774/ A brilliant exploration, situating Room in the 'transnational' context of my whole career.
David Clare, Fiona McDonagh and Justine Nakase, The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights, 1716-2016, Volume 2 (1992-2016) (Liverpool University Press, 2021)
Linda Garber, Novel Approaches to Lesbian History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), Introduction.
Ellen McWilliams, 'Transatlantic Encounters in the Writing of Emma Donoghue', in her Irishness in North American Women's Writing: Transatlantic Affinities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), pp.161-180.
Abigail L. Palko, ‘Emma Donoghue’, in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature (2020)
Ciaran O'Neill, ' ‘The cage of my moment’: a conversation with Emma Donoghue about history and fiction,' Journal of Historical Fictions 2:2, 2019 http://historicalfictionsjournal.org/pdf/JHF%202019-126.pdf
Michael Lackey, ‘Ireland, the Irish, and Biofiction,’ in Éire-Ireland, 53:1-2 (Spring/Summer 2018), 98-119.
Michael Lackey, ‘Emma Donoghue: Voicing the Nobodies in the Biographical Novel,’ in Éire-Ireland, 53:1-2 (Spring/Summer 2018), 120-133, and in his ed. Conversations with Biographical Novelists: Truthful Fictions across the Globe (London: Bloomsbury, 2018), 81-92.
Libe García Zarranz, TransCanadian Feminist Fictions: New Cross-Border Ethics (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2017) studies my work (Slammerkin, The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits, Room and Astray) alongside that of Dionne Brand and Hiromi Goto.
Renee Fox (University of California, Santa Cruz), "Queering the Archive in Emma Donoghue's Neo-historical Fiction," paper delivered MLA 2017 (Philadelphia).
Stephanie Scott (Penn State), "At Home in the Nation: Hermeneutical Injustice in the Works of Jamie O'Neill and Emma Donoghue," papered delivered MLA 2017 (Philadelphia).
'Emma Donoghue, in conversation with Abby Palko,' 17 July 2017, http://breac.nd.edu/articles/emma-donoghue-in-conversation-with-abby-palko/ A probing interview about my entire career.
http://lithub.com/emma-donoghue-and-laird-hunt-on-writing-historical-women/
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/schedule-for-thursday-december-8-2016-1.3885126/emma-donoghue-s-musical-tribute-to-dublin-ireland-1.3885485
Debbie Brouckmans, 'The Short Story Cycle in Ireland: From Jane Barlow to Donal Ryan', PhD thesis (U of Leuven) 2015. A superb analysis of my story cycles as historiographic metafiction. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/34624902.pdf
Camille Harrigan (Concordia), "Reconciling Irishness and Queerness for the New Ireland: Emma Donoghue’s Early Work and the Voices of ‘Others’," paper delivered SOFEIR conference UNHEARD VOICES (Paris), March 2015.
Susan McCallum Smith, 'Snap, Crackle and Pop', Dublin Review of Books, May 2014. Brilliantly insightful review of my entire career through the lense of Frog Music. https://drb.ie/articles/snap-crackle-and-pop/
Heather Ingman, Irish Women’s Fiction: From Edgeworth to Enright (Irish Academic Press, 2013), 247-48, discusses my fiction from Stir-fry to Room.
Reading from 'A Short Story' (in The Women Who Gave Birth to Rabbits) and talking about writing factual historical fiction at American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 11 October 2013, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEpFiYSRGuw
Noah Charney, 'Emma Donoghue: The How I Write Interview', thedailybeast.com, 24 October 2012, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/24/emma-donoghue-the-how-i-write-interview.html
Tom Ue, ‘An extraordinary act of motherhood: a conversation with Emma Donoghue,’ Journal of Gender Studies, 21:1 (2012), 101-106,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2012.639177
Dearbhla McGrath, ‘Marginal Identities: Representations of Sexuality in the Work of Emma Donoghue,’ paper delivered at Écrivaines Irlandaises / Irish Women Writers Conference (Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, 2010).
Jennifer M. Jeffers, “The Reclamation of ‘Injurious Terms’ in Emma Donoghue’s Fiction” in A Companion to Irish Literature, Vol. 2, ed. Julia M. Wright (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), 425-35.
Judy Stoffman, ‘Writer has a Deft Touch with Sexual Identities’, Toronto Star, 13 January 2007.
Maureen E. Mulvihill, ‘Emma Donoghue’, in Irish Women Writers: An A-Z Guide, ed. Alexander G. Gonzales (Westwood, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2006), 98-101.
Brian Cliff, ‘Anne Enright and Emma Donoghue: The Desire to Belong in Contemporary Irish Fiction’, paper delivered at IASIL Conference (Sydney, 2006).
Eibhear Walshe, ‘Emma Donoghue, b. 1969’, in Anthony Roche, ed. The UCD Aesthetic: Celebrating 150 Years of UCD Writers (Dublin: New Island, 2005), 274-84.
Charlotte Abbott, ‘Protean Talent’, Publishers Weekly, 10 October 2004.
‘A Liking to be Noticed’, Sunday Independent (Ireland), 1 August 2004.
Kersti Tarien Powell, ‘Emma Donoghue’, in Irish Fiction: An Introduction (New York and London: Continuum, 2004), 108-110.
Jennifer M. Jeffers, The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century: Gender, Bodies and Power (New York: Palgrave, 2002), 90-107.
Stacia L. Bensyl, ‘Emma Donoghue’, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 267, Twenty-First Century British and Irish Novelists, ed. by Michael R. Molino (Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc, 2002).
Helen Thompson, interview in Irish Women Writers Speak Out, by Caitriona Moloney and Helen Thompson (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2002), 169-180.
‘Don’t Tell Me You’ve Never Heard of Emma Donoghue’ (cover story), Eye Weekly (Toronto), 17 October 2002.
Anne Fogarty, ‘Lesbian Texts and Contexts: The Fiction of Emma Donoghue and Mary Dorcey’, paper delivered at Munster Women Writers Conference (2001).
Antoinette Quinn, 'New Noises from the Woodshed: The Novels of Emma Donoghue,' in Contemporary Irish Fiction: Themes, Tropes, Theories, ed. by Liam Harte and Michael Parker (London: Macmillan, and New York: St Martin's, 2000), pp.145-167.
Stacia Bensyl, ‘Swings and Roundabouts: An Interview with Emma Donoghue’, Irish Studies Review, 8, No. 1 (2000), 73-81.
'Emma's Exploits', Globe and Mail (Canada), 7 October 2000.
'Loose Lives', Irish Examiner, 5 August 2000.
'All Het Up', Time Out (London), 2 August 2000.
'Writer in Residence', Image Magazine (Ireland), July 2000.
S. Díez, "Women's Homoerotic Voice in the Works of Emma Donoghue: Discovery and Assertion", paper delivered at IASIL (1999).
'Irish Spring', Bay Area Reporter, 1 April 1999
Rachel Wingfield, 'Lesbian Writers in the Mainstream: Sarah Maitland, Jeanette Winterson and Emma Donoghue' in Beyond Sex and Romance: The Politics of Contemporary Lesbian Fiction, ed. by Elaine Hutton (London: Women's Press, 1998).
Tonie van Marle, 'Emma Donoghue', in Gay and Lesbian Literature: Volume Two, ed. by Tom Pendergast and Sara Pendergast (Detroit: St James Press, 1998).
'We've a Long Way to Go', Gay Community News (Ireland), April 1997.
Marilyn R. Farwell, Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives (New York and London: New York University Press, 1996), 170-71, 176.
'Sect Goddess,' Diva, April 1995.
'Family Ties: Frances Donoghue on her daughter, Emma Donoghue,' Sunday Tribune, 26 March 1995.
'Relative Values: Emma Donoghue, lesbian novelist and playwright, and her father, Denis, academic and critic,' Sunday Times, 26 March 1995.
'The Bishop and the Lesbian,' Guardian, 22 March 1995.
'Faith, Hope and Sexual Clarity,' Times, 23 February 1995.
