RESEARCH

Prof. Kevin Barry: 18th-century literature; relationships between aesthetics and changes in the nature of money; modern Irish literature including James Joyce.

Dr. Daniel Carey: early modern travel writing; literature and colonialism; early modern literature and philosophy; John Locke; seventeenth-century literature and science; eighteenth-century fiction, esp. Defoe; the Enlightenment and postcolonial theory.

Dr. Julia Carlson: 19th and 20th century American literature; censorship, medical humanities.

Dr. Cliodhna Carney: Chaucer; medieval aesthetics; medieval literary theory; Spenser.

Dr. Marie-Louise Coolahan: Women's writing in early modern Ireland; Renaissance manuscript culture.

Dr. Rosalyn Dixon: Irish Theatre history, Russian and Soviet theatre history, the production history of twentieth century European dramatists on the Irish stage, translation for the
theatre, theatre and cultural transference.

Prof. Adrian Frazier: Late 19th- and early 20th-century Irish writers, such as George Moore, W. B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde; the Abbey Theatre; 20th century Irish theatre; contemporary
Irish poetry; biography; critical theory: literary non-fiction: Golden Age Hollywood Cinema.

Dr. John Kenny: Creative Writing and Practice.

Dr. Catherine LaFarge: 14th and 15th century literature in English, in particular the work of Geoffrey Chaucer, Robert Henryson, and Thomas Malory, and issues of gender and cultural, ethnic, and religious difference; Arthurian literature, medieval romance.

Dr. Patrick Lonergan: Globalization and theatre; theatre and the creative industries; modern Irish drama; the works of John Millington Synge; Shakespeare and Ireland.

Dr. Frances McCormack: Old and Middle English literature: in particular the works of Chaucer, religious and devotional literature, and heresy.

Dr. Sinead Mooney: Beckett; modernism; translation studies; 20th century Irish writing.

Dr. Muireann O'Cinneide: Victorian Literature; women's writing; politics and literature; colonial & post-colonial writing, particularly travel writing.

Dr. Riana ODwyer: English literature relating to 16th and 17th century Ireland; nineteenth century fiction especially that written by women; the writings of James Joyce; recent Irish drama.

Dr. Lionel Pilkington: Irish theatre history; Irish cultural politics and cultural history; Southern Irish Unionism and Irish Protestantism; J.M. Synge, W.B. Yeats, and Lady Gregory; colonialism and cultural theory.

Prof. Sean Ryder: 19th century Irish culture; the work of Thomas Moore and James Clarence Mangan; digital humanities; critical editing; film studies.

Dr. Elizabeth Tilley: 19th century Gothic literature and history of the novel; 19th century serials, Irish publishing history and periodical production; book history; links between
art and literature.