She obtained her BA in English and German (2001) and MA (with distinction) in English (2002) at
University College Cork in Ireland and her PhD (2011) on "Derrida and a Theory of Irony: Parabasis and Parataxis" at the
University of Durham in England.
Long is an expert on the Irish novelist and playwright
Flann O'Brien and has published two award winning books on him.[2][7][8] She has significantly impacted wider recognition of O'Brien's work. Joseph Booker called The Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien, "a major event in the documentation of modern Ireland's history. The most significant publication by Brian O'Nolan since the belated arrival in print of The Third Policeman."[9]The Irish Studies Review said, "Reading Maebh Long's recent book, Assembling Flann O'Brien, one cannot help thinking that the poor fellow is finally getting the attention he deserves."[10]Assembling Flann O'Brien won the 2015 International Flann O'Brien Society's "Best book length study on a Brian O'Nolan theme" [11] In 2019 The Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien won the corresponding 2019 award.[12]
Selected publications
(2014) Assembling Flann O'Brien. London, New Delhi, New York: Bloomsbury, 2014.[13]ISBN1-441190-20-1
(2018) "Introduction: Oceania in Theory", Symploke, 26(1-2), 9-18.[14]
(2018) "Vanua in the Anthropocene: Relationality and Sea Level Rise in Fiji", Symploke, 26(1-2), 51-70.[15]
(2018) "Girmit, postmemory, and Subramani", Pacific Dynamics, 2(2), 161-175.[16]
(2018) The Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien. Maebh Long (editor), Dalkey Archive.[17]ISBN1-628971-83-5
(2020) New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific. Matthew Hayward and Maebh Long (editors), New York and London: Routledge.[18]