A. L. Mentxaka

Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka is a writer and academic, based in Dublin, Ireland.
Mentxaka is a scholar of English literature, specialising in modernism. She is the author of "The Postcolonial Traveller" (2016), and "Kate O'Brien and the Fiction of Identity" (2011). According to "The Irish Examiner", "[her] prose is clear, well-written and informative, and opens new and fascinating doors to the interpretation of O'Brien's novels". "The Postcolonial Traveller" offers, in the words of Paddy Woodworth, a series of "sophisticated arguments" on O'Brien's novel "Mary Lavelle", analysing it "provocatively and . . . fruitfully".
According to the "European Journal of English Studies", "Kate O'Brien and the Fiction of Identity" reads like "a challenging detective story, scholarly, yet unpredictable." Mentxaka has published on the work of Woolf, Joyce, Richardson, Kate O'Brien, and others.
Mentxaka has also written plays. They include 'A Pair of New Eyes' (2013), 'For Valentine' (2009, 2014), 'Visitor (AD 1585)' (2015), 'One Nite Stand: A Shakespearean Tragicomedy' (2014), 'Alien in Bewleys' (1999), and 'Grainne' (2015, co-written with J. Costello, K. Doyle, and L. Errity). The play 'A Pair of New Eyes' was included in 'Ten Things To Do' in "Gay Community News" magazine, which summarised it as "Romance, friendship, betrayal, seduction, and two respectable ladies", Mentxaka collaborated with a group writers for a performance of 'The Ministers'.
Mentxaka lectures at American College Dublin.
She has also worked at Dublin City University, and at University College Dublin, where she completed a post-doctoral research fellowship on Modernism.