Name: Dr Graham Allen
Position: Senior Lecturer, Modern English
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Biography
Name: Dr Siobhán Collins
Position: Project Director
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E: s.m.collins@mars.ucc.ie
Biography
Siobhán Collins is a part-time researcher and teacher in the English Department, University College Cork. She completed her doctoral thesis, "John Donne's 'russet paw': Body and Word in Metempsychosis" in 2007. Her research to date has fostered her interest in how different forms of textual production reflect different notions of ontology, and different attitudes towards language and epistemology. She is also interested in notions of the text as body; in how theology impacts on rhetorical interpretative strategies; and in how a text's transmission in different textual forms through different periods of time influences its reception. She is also interested in critical and media theory. In 2002-2005 she was a Irish Research Council of Humanities and Social Sciences Scholar. She is a member of The John Donne Society, and is involved in the Donne Digital Project. She has presented papers at a number of international conferences. Her published work includes: "Bodily Formations and Reading Strategies in Donne's Metempsychosis", Textual Ethos Studies, ed(s) Anna Fahraeus and Annkatrin Jonsson (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2005); “Selfhood and Technologies of Textual Production and Exchange: the Matter of Donne’s Poetics.” Writing Technologies Journal. Eds. Philip Leonard and Daniel Cordle, forthcoming, April 2008 http://www.ntu.ac.uk/writing_technologies/Currentjournal/index.html; and with Louise Denmead, “Language and Science in Browne’s Explication of Blackness.” Essays on Sir Thomas Browne. Eds. Kathryn Murphy and Richard Todd. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming, 2008.
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Name: Dr Carrie Griffin
Position: Project Director
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E: carrie.griffin@ucc.ie
Biography
Carrie Griffin has a PhD in Medieval & Renaissance English from UCC and has recently been appointed NUI Postdoctoral Fellow, 2007-2009. Her Fellowship will be taken up with the production of an edition of the The Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy for the Middle English Texts series. The work will be based on her PhD thesis, which examines the cultural significance of Wise Book texts and manuscripts from the late medieval period, and their transmission and reception, specifically focusing on reading habits. Her interests primarily lie in the contexts and transmission of medieval instructional and scientific texts and medieval codicology, palaeography and the evidence of early readers. She is also concerned with the following: medieval ‘popular’ literature (specifically outlaw myths and tales) and its reception post-medieval; medieval literary theory; the influence of the Middle Ages in the Romantic and Victorian periods and, particularly regarding the latter, the textual (re)presentations of medieval texts by late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century publishers, illustrators and printers (for example, William Morris and Aubrey Beardsley). She has presented at many conferences, including at the Early Book Society and the International Medieval Congress at Leeds. She has published in the Journal of the Early Book Society and in the recent essay collection Transmission and Transformation in the Middle Ages: Texts and Contexts (Ed. K. Cawsey & J. Harris, Four Courts Press, 2007). Carrie was Arts Faculty Scholar at UCC, 2001-2004, and has just completed a year-long contract at UCC's English Department, during which she taught on Medieval and Renaissance literature and culture at undergraduate and graduate level.
Name: Mary O' Connell
Position: Project Director
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E: m.f.oconnell@mars.ucc.ie
Biography
Mary O'Connell is currently working towards attaining her PhD in the Department of English, University College Cork. Her thesis project, for which she was awarded a scholarship from the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, is focused on the relationship between Byron and his publisher John Murray. She emphasises Murray’s importance in his own right, as well as linking the major changes in Byron’s poetry directly to his relationship with Murray. The primary aim is to determine the extent to which the publisher influenced Byron’s poetic production and his posthumous reputation. She is chiefly interested in the Romantic period, particularly Byron, Thomas Moore, William Gifford, the Shelley circle, the rise of the marketplace and emerging cult of celebrity, late 18th and early 19th century publishers and authors including Robert Dodsley and Laurence Sterne, the emergence of the commercial author, the development of periodical literature, as well as the Gothic novel. She has presented at several conferences, including the International Byron Conference and is working on an article for a forthcoming book on Byron and London. Mary teaches part-time at the English Department on 18th century and Romantic Literature.