People
The School of English is one of the largest in the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences. We currently have 18 full-time and two part-time academic staff members, 4 adminstrative staff including our School manager, and 3 research fellows.
Academic Staff
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Prof Claire Connolly (Head of School)
Dr Juliet Mullins
Administrative Staff
Name: Anne Fitzgerald
Position: Administrative Officer
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E: afitzgerald@english.ucc.ie
Name: Elaine Hurley
Position: Executive Assistant
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E: ehurley@ucc.ie
Name: Jennifer Crowley
Position: Senior Executive Assistant (Job-Share)
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E: j.crowley@ucc.ie
Name: Carol Power
Position: Senior Executive Assistant (Job-Share)
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E: c.power@ucc.ie
Research Fellows
The School of English is currently hosting 3 Research Fellows:
Dr Carrie Griffin (IRCHSS Government of Ireland CARA Postdoctoral Fellow)
Project description: I am currently completing a monograph which will be published by Ashgate in 2013. Learning and Information from Manuscript to Print considers the interface between the manuscript and the printed word, and the ways in which texts, and attitudes towards information and learning, shifted and altered according to the medium. My edition of The Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy is currently at press.
Dr. Hilary Lennon (Harriet O'Donovan Sheehy Postdoctoral Research Fellow)
Dr. Hilary Lennon completed a BA and MA in the School of English, National University of Ireland, Galway, and a PhD in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, and is the Harriet O'Donovan Sheehy Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of English at University College Cork. Her areas of academic interest include Frank O'Connor, Short Story Studies, Irish Studies, Cultural History, and Gender Studies. Frank O'Connor: Critical Essays, which she edited and to which she contributed, was published by Four Courts Press in 2007. Her latest edited collection, Selected Letters of Frank O'Connor, is forthcoming from Cork University Press later this year. She is also currently researching for her first monograph, based on O'Connor and Irish cultural history.
Dr Sergi Mainer (Marie Curie Research Fellow)
Project Description: I am completing the first ever study on the epic in Scotland in the late Middle Ages and the renaissance and its reciprocal connections with European literature. My analysis examines how socio-political and cultural issues conditioned the creation and transformation of the epic genre and the connectedness between Scottish culture and Europe. My analysis of the primary sources is informed by theoretical approaches. As well as genre theory, concepts on the fabrication of national identities, vernacular and translation studies and gender theory are crucial to examine the complex and multi-layered nature of epic literature. My methodology is also interdisciplinary in structure and development of ideas. The literary texts are read in conjunction with cultural, political, and social history, politics and philosophy. These different approaches reveal how epic texts construct national, individual and gender identities.
