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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) |
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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. |
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Darragh Joseph Counihan |
Thesis Title: Monstrous Metamorphosis: The Evolution of the Victorian Gothic into the New American Gothic within the Horror Genre, 1914-1945 |
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Catharine Ann Cowhig |
Thesis Title: The Performing Corpse in Medieval and Renaissance Literature |
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James Declan Dineen |
Thesis Title: Sing unto God, all ye kingdoms of earth: A novel and critical essay. |
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Gabrielle Catherine Dufrene |
Thesis Title: An Island on a Sea of Grief: Irish Women Writers and Trauma |
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Cian David Egan |
Thesis Title: They Must Live Outside the Camp: Scapegoating, Ritual Violence and the Reiteration of Hegemony in Vampire Fiction |
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Anna Kathryn Fitzgerald |
Thesis Title: Captives and Audiences: Imprisonment in Medieval and Renaissance Literature |
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| Anna Gotsch |
Thesis Title: Medieval Visual (Con-)Texts in Contemporary Graphic Novel Adaptations |
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| Kalee Marie Hall |
Thesis Title: Intimate Labour in Transnational Circuits: Sex Work in 20th Century Literature |
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| Lucy Rebecca Holme |
Thesis Title: 'Muse is a Feminine Noun'– A Poetic Interrogation of the Creative Muse Narrative from Myth to Modernity. |
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| Ellen Mary Hutchinson |
Thesis Title: Depictions of Womanhood and Motherhood: Analysing Feminine Identity and Autonomy in Contemporary Literature. |
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| Ioannis Kaprosioutis |
Thesis Title: Carnival Ambivalence and the Poetics of Transgression: Bakhtinian and Post-structural Readings of Edgar Allan Poe |
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| Hanke Sirid Kelber |
Thesis Title: Environment as an anti-utopian agent in post-apocalyptic literature, mid-20th to early 21st century |
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| Rosemary Anne Kelly |
Thesis Title: Masculine Identity Across Genre in Old English Literature |
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| Cethan James Leahy |
Thesis Title: "Logical" a novel on the life of Ethel Voynich, acclaimed author and daughter of George Boole |
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| 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) |
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| Eleanor ElizabethLynch |
Thesis Title: Early English Environmental Narratives and the Modern Climate Crisis |
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| Robyn Anne Mc Auliffe |
Thesis Title: Gendered Trauma in Old English Literature |
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| Olivia Mc Carthy |
Thesis Title: Wellness, Ideology, and the Child: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of the Children’s Wellness Genre in Contemporary Children’s Literature |
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| Laura Mulcahy |
Thesis Title: Trauma and the Fantastic in the Works of Stephen King |
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| John William O'Boyle |
Thesis Title: Decolonial Praxis and the Novel |
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| Robert Andrew Robinson |
Thesis Title: Fragmentation and Trauma in Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This |
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| Hope Noonan Stoner |
Thesis Title: Modernism and Diaspora Poetics in Lola Ridge and Julia de Burgos |
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