MUIREANN O'CINNEIDE

Muireann O’Cinneide is a graduate of University College Cork (BA 1998, English & Latin) and Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford (MPhil in Victorian Literature 2000, DPhil 2003). She teaches literature of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, giving undergraduate courses in eighteenth-century novels and poetry, literature of the Romantic period, and Victorian literature. At graduate level she is Course Director for the MA in Culture and Colonialism. Her main research interests are in women’s writing, politics, and colonial and postcolonial literature and theory (especially travel writing). Her most recent work was on aristocratic women’s writing in the Victorian period, and she is currently working on nineteenth-century travel writing and conflict narratives.

Selected Publications:
Monographs:

Aristocratic Women and the Literary Nation, 1832-1867. Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Basingstoke & NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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Articles & Essays:
“Burney’s Wanderers and Brontë’s Silent Revolts: Revolution, Vagrancy and Gender.”
The Legacies of Romanticism: Literature, Aesthetics, Landscape. Routledge Studies in Romanticism. Eds. Carmen Casaliggi & Paul Russell. London: Routledge, 2012.

“Conflict & Imperial Communication: Narrating the First Afghan War”. Conflict and Difference in Nineteenth Century Literature. Eds. Dinah Birch & Mark Llewellyn. Basingstoke & NY: Palgrave, 2010. 52-65.

“Oriental Interests, Interesting Orients: Class, Authority and the Reception of Knowledge in Victorian Women’s Travel Writing”, Critical Survey 21.1 (May 2009): 4-23, Beyond Orientalism; Texting the Victorian East.

“The Silver-Fork Novel Across Romantic & Victorian Views: Class, Gender and Commodity Culture, 1820-1841”. Literature Compass 4.4 (July 2007). http://www.literature-compass.com

“The Victorian Suburb as Imperial Stage”. Journeys 7.1 (Summer 2006): 51-65.

Other:
Guest Editor, “The British Empire and Victorian Literature & Culture”, Victorian Network I (August 2009) http://www.victoriannetwork.org

Forthcoming:
“Travellers’ Bodies & Pregnant Things: Victorian Women’s Imperial Births.” Bodies & Things: Victorian Literature and the Matter of Culture. Ed. Katharina Boehm. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2012.

Two edited volumes for The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant. General Editors Elisabeth Jay & Joanne Shattock. Pickering & Chatto .

“Victorian Literature – Travel Writing”. Oxford Bibliographies Online. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/browse?module_0="obo-9780199799558

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