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Current Research Students

Our Ph.D students undertake wide-ranging research from Old English to 21st-century literary fields. They are also actively developing their scholarly profile through conference attendance and organisation

 

 

Ailish Kate Brassil

Thesis Title:

Horror at home (2022-28)

 

Maria-Sophia Christodoulou

Thesis Title:

Symptoms, hearing, and resisting intergenerational  trauma in the Cypriot diaspora through the transformative agency of poetry in the collection, Where-it-is.

 

Darragh Joseph Counihan

Thesis Title:

Monstrous Metamorphosis: The Evolution of the Victorian Gothic into the New American Gothic within the Horror Genre, 1914-1945

 

Catharine Ann Cowhig

Thesis Title:

The Performing Corpse in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

 

James Declan Dineen

Thesis Title:

Sing unto God, all ye kingdoms of earth: A novel and critical essay.

 

Gabrielle Catherine Dufrene

Thesis Title:

An Island on a Sea of Grief: Irish Women Writers and Trauma

 

Cian David Egan

Thesis Title:

They Must Live Outside the Camp: Scapegoating, Ritual Violence and the Reiteration of Hegemony in Vampire Fiction

 

Anna Kathryn Fitzgerald

Thesis Title:

Captives and Audiences: Imprisonment in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

 

Anna Gotsch

Thesis Title:

Medieval Visual (Con-)Texts in Contemporary Graphic Novel Adaptations

Kalee Marie Hall

Thesis Title:

Intimate Labour in Transnational Circuits: Sex Work in 20th Century Literature

Lucy Rebecca Holme

Thesis Title:

'Muse is a Feminine Noun'– A Poetic Interrogation of the Creative Muse Narrative from Myth to Modernity.

Ellen Mary Hutchinson

Thesis Title:

Depictions of Womanhood and Motherhood: Analysing Feminine Identity and Autonomy in Contemporary Literature.

Ioannis Kaprosioutis

Thesis Title:

Carnival Ambivalence and the Poetics of Transgression: Bakhtinian and Post-structural Readings of Edgar Allan Poe

Hanke Sirid Kelber

Thesis Title:

Environment as an anti-utopian agent in post-apocalyptic literature, mid-20th to early 21st century

Rosemary Anne Kelly

Thesis Title:

Masculine Identity Across Genre in Old English Literature

Cethan James Leahy

Thesis Title:

"Logical" a novel on the life of Ethel Voynich, acclaimed author and daughter of George Boole

Jordan Lillis

Thesis Title:

An analysis of the depiction of female societal place in short stories published since 1828 (and the development of a collection of short stories informed by this research)

Eleanor ElizabethLynch

Thesis Title:

Early English Environmental Narratives and the Modern Climate Crisis

Robyn Anne Mc Auliffe

Thesis Title:

Gendered Trauma in Old English Literature

Olivia Mc Carthy

Thesis Title:

Wellness, Ideology, and the Child: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of the Children’s Wellness Genre in Contemporary Children’s Literature

Laura Mulcahy

Thesis Title:

Trauma and the Fantastic in the Works of Stephen King

John William O'Boyle

Thesis Title:

Decolonial Praxis and the Novel

Robert Andrew Robinson

Thesis Title:

Fragmentation and Trauma in Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This

Hope Noonan Stoner

Thesis Title:

Modernism and Diaspora Poetics in Lola Ridge and Julia de Burgos

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