English
College of Arts, Social Sciences, & Celtic Studies,
School of Humanities
Course overview
A PhD dissertation should make a substantial and original contribution to its field of knowledge. The PhD degree is awarded for work that is ’worthy of publication, in whole or in part, as a work of serious scholarship’ (NUI Galway Calendar). The length of the dissertation in English is normally 60,000–80,000 words. The duration of research is usually four years.
The Department of English strongly recommends that prospective students register for the Structured PhD in English (PAC Code GYG08). As part of the doctoral training available on the Structured PhD programme, students avail themselves of a range of interdisciplinary taught modules.
Programmes available
PhD (English), part-time
Entry requirements
Areas of interest
Dr. Rebecca A. Barr: literature of the 'long' eighteenth century; masculinity and literature; printing and print culture; the novel: contemporary poetry and visual culture.
Dr. Daniel Carey: early modern travel writing; literature and colonialism; early modern literature and philosophy; John Locke; seventeenth-century literature and science; eighteenth-century fiction, esp. Defoe; the Enlightenment and postcolonial theory.
Dr. Julia Carlson: 19th and 20th century American literature; censorship, medical humanities.
Dr. Cliodhna Carney: Chaucer; medieval aesthetics; medieval literary theory; Spenser.
Dr. Marie-Louise Coolahan: Women's writing in early modern Ireland; Renaissance manuscript culture.
Prof. Adrian Frazier: Late 19th- and early 20th-century Irish writers, such as George Moore, W. B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde; the Abbey Theatre; 20th century Irish theatre; contemporary Irish poetry; biography; critical theory: literary non-fiction: Golden Age Hollywood Cinema.
Dr. John Kenny: Creative Writing and Practice.
Dr. Patrick Lonergan: Globalization and theatre; theatre and the creative industries; modern Irish drama; the works of John Millington Synge; Shakespeare and Ireland.
Dr. Frances McCormack: Old and Middle English literature: in particular the works of Chaucer, religious and devotional literature, and heresy.
Dr. Sinead Mooney: Beckett; modernism; translation studies; 20th century Irish writing.
Dr. Muireann O'Cinneide: Victorian Literature; women's writing; politics and literature; colonial & post-colonial writing, particularly travel writing.
Dr. Lionel Pilkington: Irish theatre history; Irish cultural politics and cultural history; Southern Irish Unionism and Irish Protestantism; J.M. Synge, W.B. Yeats, and Lady Gregory; colonialism and cultural theory.
Prof. Sean Ryder: 19th century Irish culture; the work of Thomas Moore and James Clarence Mangan; digital humanities; critical editing; film studies.
Dr. Elizabeth Tilley: 19th century Gothic literature and history of the novel; 19th century serials, Irish publishing history and periodical production; book history; links between
art and literature.
Dr. Adrian Paterson:
Modernism; fin de siècle, nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature; literature and the arts, especially music; orality, print, performance, technology, including radio broadcasting; Irish poetry in English; the works of W.B.Yeats, Ezra Pound, James Joyce.
Researcher profiles
Find out more
Ms. Dearbhla Mooney
T 353 91 493 339
E dearbhla.mooney@nuigalway.ie
http://www.nuigalway.ie/courses/english-research
