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RESEARCH STUDENTS

There are currently thirty-nine doctoral students working in the English Department. Their work concentrates on the areas of theatre history and policy; a digital edition of the works of Thomas Moore; Irish nationalist culture; book history; medieval concepts of chivalry; eighteenth-century and modern poetry.

PhD Students in Department of English 2011-2012

Name	Thesis title
ANSALDO, Marina	Troilus & Cressida
ARNOLD, Sarah	Female Monstrosity in Horror and Sci-Fi Cinema
BERGIN, Alan	The Fiction of Katherine Cecil Thurston
BROWNE, Andrew	Thomas Kinsella and American modernist poetry
BUCKLEY, Megan	Four Galway Women Poets
CASEY, James	The Ideological Subtexts in the Disabilty Film.
CONNELL, Meaghan	Counting the Tongue: Investigations into Irish-English Dialect Literature
DOHERTY, Neassa	The Dublin Group and Eighteenth Century Print Culture c. 1740-1775
DOWD, Ciaran	Being and Witness: Cormac McCarthy’s Metaphysical Tension
DOWNES, Rebecca	Death and Dying in Banville and Coetzee
GALLAGHER, Rosemary	Anti-War Comedic Literature of Heller, Robbins, Vigorito, Vonnegut
GILCHRIST, Hazel	’Ireland’s “I”: Identification within Irish Texts and Contexts, 1930-1960
GRIFFIN McGUIRE, Ciara	Embodiment and Identity in the Literature of South Asian Women Writers
HOLMES, Patricia	The Irish Traveller: Beyond the Stereotype
HYNES, Kevin	Hiberno-English: Quo vadis? The English Dialects of Modern Ireland in a Multicultural Age
JOHNSON, Veronica	Representing the Unconscious in Cinema
JONES, Kristin	Magic Realism in Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien
KEADY, Ann	Early Modern Travel/Travel Advice
KENNEDY, Seamus	Censorship of comedy on the grounds of religious offence
KING, Nora	Confessions in literature from Jacobean Drama to the twentieth-century novel
MCCORMICK, Sheila	Documentary Theatre and the Rise in Reality Entertainment
MONTAGUE, Conor	Big Houses, Epistolary Relationships, and the Irish Revival
MOUTON KINYON, Chanté	Postcoloniality in the Irish and Harlem Renaissances
Nì CHUALAIN, Mairead (M.Litt)	Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe: Staging works derived from English and Hiberno-English
O’CONNOR, Doreen	Supernatural landscapes and expressions of violence in Irish poetry of the Early Nineteenth Century.
O'DONNELL, Niall (with Huston Film School)	Recurring Nightmares: Recontextualising Gothic Horror Literature and the Twentieth-Century Horror Film
O'DOWD, Ciara	Irish Actresses of the 1930s
O’FLAHERTY, Emily	The Poetry of Mary Barber
O'GORMAN, Siobhan	A Comparative Study of Suzan-Lori Parks and Marina Carr: Identity, Canonicity and Culture
O’MALLEY, Garret	Morality in Contemporary North American Literature: Transgressive Fiction from 1985-2001
PHILLIPS, Beth	Ethnic Realism via Clifford Odets and his European infuences
PURCELL, Siobhan	Deforming Disability in the works of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett
ROONEY, Paul	Secrets and Social Responsibility in Victorian Crime Fiction
SMITH, Jen	The Artefact Book
TROUPE, Shelley	Druid Theatre, 1975-2005
WARD, Brian	Prelude to a Rising: Irish Periodical Cultures, 1912-1916
WEBB, Jena	Violence and Graphic Imagery in Anglo-Saxon Literature
ZACHARY, Ayla	British Imperial Policy and Popular Theatre in Ireland, Canada and the US, 1888-1911

Recently completed doctoral theses include :

Fiona Bateman: ’The Spiritual Empire: Irish Catholic Missionary Discourse in the Twentieth Century’
Francesca Benatti: ’A National and Concordant Feeling: Irish Penny Journals, 1832-1842’.
William Burke (with Huston Film School) : 'Adaptation of Comic Books and Graphic Novels to Cinema'
Emily Cullen: 'Meanings and Cultural Functions of the Irish Harp as Trope, Icon and Instrument: The Construction of an Irish Self-Image'
Coralline Dupuy: ’The Mentor in Nineteenth-Century Fantastic Literature and Detective Fiction’
Anne Karhio: 'Poetic Discourse and the Formation of Place in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon'
Tim Keane: 'Cultural Relations between English Radicalism and Irish Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century'
Sean Kennedy: ’The Artist from Nowhere?: Historicizing Beckett’,
Kinga Olszewska: ’Wanderers across Language: Exile in Irish and Polish Literature of the Twentieth Century’
Irina Ruppo: 'Ibsen and 20th-Century Irish Drama'
Katrin Urschel: 'Surfacing again: Ethnic identity in Irish-Canadian literature'
Julia Walther: 'Women in Irish Publishing'
Katharina Walter: 'Eavan Boland & Medbh Guckian's Poetry'
Grace Windsor: 'Representations in Medieval Literature'

The Department works closely with The Moore Institute, and mentors post-doctoral researchers in Irish writing; literary journalism; cinema; and periodical literature.

English Department
National University of Ireland, Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland.
Phone: +353 (0)91 493339; Fax: +353 (0)91 524102
E-mail: English Department
This page was last updated Thursday, January 19, 2012