Marilynn Richtarik is an American professor of English at Georgia State University who teaches English literature and specialises in 20th-century literature from Northern Ireland. She is the biographer of Belfast playwright Stewart Parker.
Richtarick was raised in Lawrence, Kansas and was educated at Harvard University and at Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.
In 2017, as a Fulbright Scholar, she researched and taught at Queen's University Belfast.
Richtarik's 2023 book, Getting to Good Friday: Literature and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland, was shortlisted for the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize in the 2022-2023 cycle, though she ultimately lost to Derry Girls.
Publications Getting to Good Friday: Literature and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 274 pp.
Stewart Parker: A Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 448 pp.
Acting Between The Lines: The Field Day Theatre Company and Irish Cultural Politics 1980–1984. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. 356 pp.
As editor Parker, Stewart. Hopdance: An Autobiographical Novel, Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2017, 176 pp.
Personal life Richtarik married journalist Matt Bolch in 2001. They have a son together.
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External links Georgia State University profile