Dr Conrad Brunström
Research interests focus on eighteenth century culture and literature, with particular attention to theories of rhetoric, and gender theory.
Prof Joe Cleary
Areas of interest include: Ireland and postcolonial theory; postcolonial writing, particularly in relation to Palestine; literature and partition; history of Irish literary criticism.
Dr Denis Condon
Research interests include film in Ireland in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; the interrelationships between popular theatre, tourism, and spectatorship; European cinema.
Dr Íde Corley
Specialises in postcolonial literatures and cultures with particular attention to Pan-African nationalism and black internationalism. Her research explores the transnational circulation of literary forms; the relationships between literary and social authority; and how globalizing forms and enactments of gender and
desire interact with local cultures in African and African diasporic contexts.
Prof Luke Gibbons
Prof of Irish Literary and Cultural Studies
Areas of interest range widely throughout Irish literary and cultural history from the eighteenth-century to the present, with special attention to Irish cinema, Edmund Burke, Joyce, culture and technology, and visual culture.
Dr Colin Graham
A wide range of research interests, including postcolonial theory, postmodernism, Irish visual culture, contemporary writing from Northern Ireland, and nineteenth-century poetry.
Dr Conor McCarthy
Research interests include Ireland and modernity, postcolonial theory, and the history of Irish intellectual culture.
Dr Emer Nolan
Research interests include James Joyce, contemporary Irish fiction and cultural theory, and nineteenth-century Irish fiction.
Dr Stephen O’Neill
Research interests in Shakespearean and early modern drama; Shakespeare and Ireland; Shakespeare and new media, especially YouTube.
Dr Moynagh Sullivan
Research interests include Irish postmodernism, gender theory and contemporary Irish women’s writing.