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.

19th-century literature; research specialisms in women's writing, politics and literature, and colonial & post-Colonial writing, particularly travel writing.