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The English Department is one of the largest and liveliest in the university. We have 20 members of staff, and over 1000 undergraduate students. We have an average of 45 students enrolled in our taught MA programmes each year, and currently have 38 PhD students. In addition, each semester we welcome over 250 students from overseas.
The Department has an active research staff engaged in projects across the full range of literary history, from medieval and early modern to contemporary. Particular research strengths lie in Chaucerian studies, theatre, Irish studies, women's writing, editing, post/colonial studies, travel, and periodical literature. The Department is committed to integrating its research interests and its teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, in particular through its three taught MA programmes and its contributions to multi-disciplinary programmes. There are currently 38 doctoral students and their work concentrates on the areas of theatre history and policy; a digital edition of the works of Thomas Moore; Irish nationalist culture; book history; medieval concepts of chivalry; eighteenth-century and modern poetry. The Department works closely with the Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change, and mentors four post-doctoral researchers in Irish writing; literary journalism; cinema; and periodical literature.
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What's wrong with Medievalism: Tolkien, the Strugatsky brothers, and the question of the ideology of fantasy
(International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, 2016)This article addresses the question of the ideology of medievalist fantasy genre through an analysis of Hard to Be a God (1963) by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky with references to J. R. R. Tolkien s The Lord of the Rings. ... -
'And like the sea God was silent': Multivalent water imagery in Silence
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John Locke, Edward Stillingfleet, and the Quarrel over Consensus
(Edinburgh University Press, 2017-02)Philosophical antagonism and dispute by no means confined to the early modern period nonetheless enjoyed a moment of particular ferment as new methods and orientations on questions of epistemology and ethics developed ... -
Transcription maximized; expense Minimized? Crowdsourcing and editing The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham
(Oxford University Press, 2012-03-28)This article discusses the crowdsourced manuscript transcription project Transcribe Bentham, and how it will impact upon long-established editorial practices at the Bentham Project, University College London, which is ... -
A networks-science investigation into the epic poems of Ossian
(WorldScientific Open Access, 2016-10-21)In 1760 James Macpherson published the first volume of a series of epic poems which he claimed to have translated into English from ancient Scottish-Gaelic sources. The poems, which purported to have been composed by a ... -
Francis Hutcheson's aesthetics and his critics in Ireland: Charles-Louis de Villette and Edmund Burke
(Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen, 2016)In his own time as much as in ours, the response to Francis Hutcheson’s philosophy has concentrated above all on his contribution to moral thought, especially the articulation of a so-called ‘moral sense’.1 The moral ... -
“Certaine Amorous Sonnets, Betweene Venus and Adonis”: fictive acts of writing in The Passionate Pilgrime of 1612
(Etudes Epistémè, 2012)In c. 1599, the London stationer William Jaggard produced two editions of The Passionate Pilgrime, a collection of twenty poems best known for its inclusion of five sonnets by William Shakespeare. Having been lengthened ... -
The spectre of the School of Night: former scholarly fictions and the stuff of academic fiction
(Early Modern Literary Studies, 2014)This article re-examines the fortunes of the School of Night over the past century as it transitioned from a scholarly theory that enjoyed wide acceptance by early modernists to become almost exclusively the stuff of ... -
Periodicals and journalism in twentieth-century Ireland: writing against the grain - review
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)The essays in this collection are expanded versions of papers given at the 2012 conference of the Newspaper and Periodical History Forum of Ireland at Kingston University. Fourteen chapters discuss significant titles from ... -
Teaching Caxton's Prologue to Eneydos as an introduction to Renaissance literary culture
(Michael Boecherer, Ed. & Pub, 2015-06)Over the past few decades, contemporary scholarship on Renaissance literature has increasingly come to intersect with the concerns of book history and material culture. This has been reflected in the classroom, for instance, ... -
Beaumont and Fletcher's Rhodes: early modern geopolitics and mythological topography in The Maid's Tragedy
(Humanities Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University., 2012)Discussions of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's Maid's Tragedy have infrequently engaged with the matter of its setting. Nonetheless, as we are frequently reminded within the play, its tragic events are purportedly ... -
Poems, by J.D. (1635) and the Creation of John Donne's Literary Biography
(John Donne Journal, 2013)When, in 1619, John Donne urged Sir Robert Ker to remind readers of Biathanatos that it was "a Book written by jack Donne, and not by D. Donne," he probably did not expect this brief, personal message to become a ... -
Carefully Corrected / Mutilated Mess: Ossian's Textual Legacies
(2015)Controversies over legitimacy are an essential part of the literary reception and cultural meaning (Mulholland 394) of James Macpherson s Ossian poems. Many revisionist readings of Ossian attempt to preserve the text ... -
Speculation and multiple dedications in Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015)This essay analyzes how the dedications in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611) not only mark the transition between the reciprocal gift economy of patronage and commercial book sales but also recommend the ... -
The Gothic in David Lynch: phantasmagoria and abjection
(2010)David Lynch has long been identified with 'New American Gothic', a late capitalist cinematography that disrupts the glossy normalcy of the American dream with visions of violent menace, and physical and sexual aberrancy. ...