The Department
Over fifty students work on a range of taught and research postgraduate degrees annually in the School of English. The School's thriving graduate studies programme includes four one-year MA courses. These full-time taught degrees include subject-related seminars, research skills modules, and specialised research in the form of a dissertation. Our MA programmes enable students to carry out supervised study in areas covered by the School's research expertise, which ranges from the earliest texts to contemporary film, literature, and theory. The MA is widely recognized as both a powerful stand-alone degree and as a vital stage toweards further postgraduate studies. Recent graduates have undertaken distinguished Ph.D studies or succeeded in a variety of business, teaching, or culture-based professions.
Founded in 1845, University College Cork is one of Ireland's oldest universities and has been twice named Irish University of the Year in recognition of its excellence in teaching and research. UCC is a dynamic learning environment with a global outlook and makes a major contribution to the economy and culture of Ireland.
Further Information
Postgraduate students should refer to the relevant Faculty section of the UCC Postgraduate Calendar (http://www.ucc.ie/academic/calendar/postgraduate) for their programme requirements.
More detailed information about postgraduate degrees can be obtained from the co-ordinators of each programme. Applicants for MA / MPhil degrees will normally be expected to have a good honours degree in an appropriate subject. Applicants for PhD degrees will normally be expected to have an MA / MPhil in a related subject. Applicants may be called to an interview. Non-standard applications, especially from mature students, are also considered.
College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences The Graduate School, Office G28, College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences, O'Rahilly Building, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. T: 00.353.21.4205141/5139 F: 00.353.21.4903364 E: m.odonovan@ucc.ie
IRCHSS AWARDS
2010
POST-GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP 2010
Coirle Mooney
"Infected Vision in the Works of Thomas Middleton"
IRCHSS Postdoctoral CARA Fellowship Three
Dr. Carrie Griffin (UCC)
Learning and Information in the English Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: An Analysis of Textual Genres, Material Structures and Reorganisation.
2009
POST-GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP 2009
Adrian Goodwin
“The Language of Space”: The Influence of Twentieth Century Irish Gay and Lesbian Narrative on the “Post-Gay” moment in Irish Literature.
Colin Lahive
"Milton and Romance: Vernacular Romance and Chivalric Traditions in Paradise"
Cian O'Mahony
“A King for the Queene”: Samuel Sheppard’s The Faerie King and his reception of Spenser’s epic authority.
Bairbre Anne Walsh
"Claude McKay and the Transnational Novel"
2008
POST-GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP 2008
Alan Foley, "The Objects of Laughter: A Poetics of Humour in Old and Middle English Literaure".
Sarah Kate Hayden, "Resonances of the Radical in the Female Modernist Poetic"
2007
POST-GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS 2007-08
Richard A. Hawtree, "Vox Meditans: Studies in the Anglo-Saxon Liturgical Imagination and the Unity of Old English Poetic ManAuscripts.
Victoria Kennefick, "Lonely Voices of the South: Exploring the Transatlantic dialogue of Frank O'Connor and Flannery O'Connor"
POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS 2007-08
David Coughlan, "Ghosts of American Writing"
2006
POST GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS, 2006-07:
Daniel Kennedy, “Transgression, Textual Violation and the New Narrative”
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS, 2006-07
Dr Andrew King, "Mirrors of British Kingship: The Galfridian Tradition in Early Modern Drama"
2005
POST GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS, 2005-06:
Sarah Louise Melnyk, “The Arthurian Legend in Scottish and English Literature”
2004
POST GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS, 2004-05:
Mary O’Connell, “Truth from the bookseller”: Murray, Moore and the manufacturing of Byron
Louise Denmead, “Representations of ‘Blackness’ and the Female Foreigner in Aemilia Lanyer and Elizabeth Cary.”
Sorcha Fogarty, In Memoriam: Jacques Derrida, The Working of Mourning, and the Regeneration of Responsibility.
POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS 2004-05:
Dr Mary Pierse, “George Moore and Early Literary Impressionism” An exploration of elements of Literary Impressionism in the 1890s works of George Moore, focusing particularly on his use of that mode to advance gender models that diverge from Victorian stereotypes. By relating Moore’s practice to theoretical models, determination of a more comprehensive definition of Literary Impressionism may be established.
2003
POST GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS, 2003-04:
Emma Bidwell, "Female Performance of Masculinity."
2002
POST GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS, 2002-03:
Siobhan Collins, IRCHSS Government of Ireland Scholar, researching discourses of sexuality in the poetry of John Donne.
Eileen Forristal, IRCHSS Government of Ireland Scholar, researching the sublime in Virginia Wolf.
Kalene Nix-Kenefick, IRCHSS Government of Ireland Scholar, is researching the writings of Irish writer Una Troy (1910-1993) whose early works were published under the pseudonym Elizabeth Connor. Her works include four plays, a number of short stories and fifteen novels, many of which were translated into European languages.
POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS 2002-03:
Dr Tina O’Toole, “Narrating the new woman: the feminist fictions of Sarah Grand and George Egerton."
POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS 2002-03:
Dr Jason King, "Refugee narratives in Irish historical and contemporary perspective"
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS, 2002-03:
Dr Lee Jenkins, "The language of Caribbean poetry"
Dr Margaret Connolly, “An Index of Middle English Prose in the Main Manuscript Collection of Cambridge University Library”.
SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS, 2002-03:
Professor Patricia Coughlan, "Gender, sexuality and social change in Irish literature 1960-2000"
2001
POST GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS, 2001-02:
Susan Burke, “The Presence of Wollstonecraft in the Work of Mary Shelley.”
Ruth Connolly, “Subjectivity in the Writings of Mary Boyle Rich and Katherine Boyle Jones.”
Brendan Kavanagh, “W.B. Yeats and Eastern Mysticism”
Catherine MacHale, “Infinity in Language and Literature.”
Eleanor Neff, “A Comparative Study of Beowulf and the Tain Bo Cuailnge” (Department of Celtic Civilisation and Department of English).
Paul O’Connor, “Sensibility & Romanticism: The Poetics of Modernity.”
Michael O’Sullivan, “Where is the Ethics in Ethical Criticism?”
Mary Pierse, “Rattling the Railings: George Moore’s Creative Literary Resistance to Late Victorian Society.”
2000
POST GRADUTE SCHOLARSHIPS, 2000-01:
Kenneth Rooney, “Timor Mortis: Aspects of the Macabre in Late Middle English Narrative.”
Department of English PhD Completions since 2000
| 2011 | Walsh, Bairbre "Claude McKay and the Transnational Novel" |
| 2011 | Madden, Leonard "The 'Tempest of Emblems': Intertextuality in some of Samuel Beckett's Early Poems and Prose" |
| 2011 | Kennedy, Danny "Anarratology: the writings of new narrative" |
| 2011 | Whittredge, Julia "Irish Modernist Poetry" |
| 2010 | Rooney, Peter "Primitivism in the Short Fiction of Ernest Hemingway" |
| 2010 | Smith, Catherine "Historical Fiction by Irish Women since 1800" |
| 2010 | Melamphy, Demborah "Hollyweird: Gender transgression in the collaborations of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp" |
| 2010 | Melnyck, Sarah "The Arthurian Tradition in Medieval Scotland" |
| 2010 | Fogarty, Sorcha "The Affirmative Nature of Impossibility in Jacques Derrida's work on Mourning" |
| 2010 | Kennefick, Victoria "Lonely voices of the south: exploring the transnational dialogue of Flannery O'Connor and Frank O'Connor" |
| 2010 | Smith, Catherine "Historical Fiction by Irish Women since 1800" |
| 2009 | O'Connell, Mary "A Poet, his Publisher and Posterity: Byron and John Murray." |
| 2008 | Nijhuis, Letty '"Deor and Nytena mid Us": Animals in the Works of Ælfric ' |
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2008 |
Nix, Kathleen "Una Troy's Fiction: The Figure of the Irish Women Writer." |
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2008 |
Denmead, Louise "Representations of Femininity and Blackness in Three Early Modern Texts" |
| 2007 | Neff, Eleanor "Beowulf and the Ulster Cycle: A Comparative Study of Narrative Parallels in Beowulf, Fled Bricrend, and Táin Bó Cúailgne" |
| 2007 | Walsh, Ann "Revising the Evidence: A Reappraisal of Robert Lowell's Poetry" |
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2007 |
Bidwell, Emma “Members of Masculinity? Masculine Females in the Works of Carson McCullers." |
| 2007 | Collins, Siobhan "John Donne's "Russet Pawe": Body and Word in Metempsychosis" |
| 2007 | Mannion, Una "'Within Private Armes': Enclosure in the work of Thomas Carew. |
| 2007 | Murphy, Orla “Handheld Laser Profilometry of Certain Medieval Inscribed Stones” |
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2006 |
James Carney “Narrative Space, Narrative Time: A Spatiotemporal Model of Narrative Semantics.” |
| 2006 | Forristal, Eileen M.“Schopenhauer’s Sublime in a range of Virginia Woolf’s Later Novels.” |
| 2006 | Carrie Griffin “’A Good Reder’: The Middle English Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy, Instruction, Publics and Manuscripts. |
| 2005 | Ruth Connolly “All our Endeavours Terminate but in This’”: Self-Government in the Writings of Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick and Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh” |
| 2004 | Kenneth Patrick Rooney “Mortality and imagination:aspects of the macabre in Middle English narrative” |
| 2004 | Michael O’Sullivan “Deterring deconstruction:incarnation, ethical criticism and the Joycean Epiphany” |
| 2004 |
Catherine MacHale “Cantor’s Lovely Game: The Mathematics of the infinite in the writings of Jorge Luis Borges and Julia Kristeva” |
| 2003 | Fergal Gaynor "To touch the world of substance’:D.H. Lawrence’s critical intervention in the modern movement” |
| 2003 |
Mary Pierse “Towards a Novel Freedom:George Moore’s Sophisticated Literary Shapings in Esther Waters and Celibates.” |
| 2003 | Brendan Kavanagh “W.B. Yeats and Eastern mysticism” |
| 2002 |
James P. Byrne “Inalienable citizenship:assimilation and the crisis of self-representation in Irish-American and Jewish-American literature” |
| 2001 | Fionnghuaile Sweeny “Frederick Douglas: mask or maroonage? Atlantic sites and the politics of representative identity” |
| 2001 | Anita Howard “The Reconstruction of Kinship in the drama of William Shakespeare and Pedro Calderon de la Barca” |
| 2001 |
Martina M.O’Toole "Narrating the New Woman: the feministfictions of Sarah Grand and George Egerton” |
| 2000 |
Katherine O’Donnell “Edmund Burke and the heritage of oral culture” |
