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Mum's the Word

A very successful conference, entitled Mum's the Word: Voicing the Female Experience in Popular Culture was organised in the department on march 9th this year by two of our postgraduate students, jade Dillon and Adele Hannon.

Adele Hannon (conference organiser), Dr Sorcha Gunne (NUIG, plenary speaker) and jade Dillon (conference organiser).

The Department of English Language and Literature graduated 4 PhD students in 2016. We also graduated a cohort from the Taught MA in Modern English Language and Literature, and our first cohort from the new Taught MA in Applied Linguistics.

We are extremely proud of all of our students.

From left to right: Dr Tony Fleming, Dr Anne Nash, Dr Brian Devaney and Dr Kieran Harrington

From left to right: Dr Kathryn Laing, Dr Kieran Harrington, Dr Tony Fleming, Dr Anne O'Keeffe, Dr

Anne Nash, Dr Brian Devaney, Dr Eugene O'Brien and Dr John McDonagh

Dr Kieran Harrington with his supervisor, Dr Anne O'Keeffe (Professor Mike McCarthy was co-supervisor)

Dr Brian Devaney with his supervisor, Dr John McDonagh

Dr Tony Fleming with his supervisor, Dr Eugene O'Brien

Dr Kathryn Laing (supervisor) Dr Anne Nash and Dr Eugene O'Brien (supervisor)

Staff and students from the Taught MA in Modern English Language and Literature

Staff and students from the Taught MA in Applied Linguistics

Enass Ben Khalifa, who graduated with a Taught MA in English Language and Literature

Miriam Walsh and Daniela Panzera, who both graduated in 2015, in deep in conversation

RESEARCH POSTGRADUATE STUDENT COMPLETION TABLE:

Degree	Year	Supervisor	Student	Title and External Examiner
PhD	2016	John McDonagh	Brian Devaney	'What Lies Beneath': An Explanation of the Unseen in John B. Keane's The Field External Examiner: Professor Victor Merriman, Edge Hill University, UK
PhD	2016	Dr Kathryn Laing and Dr Eugene O'Brien	Anne Nash	An Examination of Female and Characterisation in a Selection of the Novels Short Stories of William Trevor through the Lens of Simone de Beauvoir External Examiner, Dr Paul Delaney, Trinity College Dublin
PhD	2016	Dr Eugene O'Brien	Tony Fleming	The Gravity of Oppositions: The Life and Art of Thomas Hardy External Examiner: Dr Rebecca Welshman, External Examiner Address University of Liverpool, UK
PhD	2016	Dr Anne O'Keeffe and Professor Mike McCarthy	Kieran Harrington	‘Anything but the Ideal Speaker Listener in Anything but a Homogenous Speech Community A study of communication through the medium of lingua franca English.’ External examiner Professor Steve Walsh, Newcastle University, UK
PhD	2015	Eugene O'Brien	Miriam Walsh	Once Upon an Ideology: Exploring the ideologies and identities of Female Figures through a Selection of Classic and Contemporary Fairy Tales External Examiner: Professor Donald Haase, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA
PhD	2015	Eugene O'Brien	Daniela Panzera	Dantean Returns: Intertextuality in the Works of Seamus Heaney, Thomas Stearns Eliot and Eugenio Montale External Examiner: Professor Andrew J. Auge Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa, USA
PhD	2015	Maria Beville and Eugene O'Brien	Tracy Fahey	The Gothic Home in Contemporary Irish Art: Perspectives on the Gothic and Folklore in Ireland External Examiner: Dr Catherine Spooner, Lancaster University, UK
PhD	2014	Eugene O'Brien	Michelle Kennedy	The Deconstructive Interplay of Catholicism and Feminism in Modern Irish Literature External Examiner: Dr Eamon Maher, Institute of Technology, Tallaght
PhD	2014	Eugene O'Brien	Donna Mitchell	From Dolls to Demons: Exploring Subversions of Female Agency and Identity in Gothic Literature through a Selection of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Texts External Examiner: Dr Monica Germanà University of Westminster, London
PhD	2014	Eugene O'Brien	Deirdre Flynn	Literature's Postmodern Condition: The Search for Identity and Connection in the Novels of Haruki Murakami External Examiner: Professor Mathew Strecher, Winona State University, Minnesota, USA
PhD	2014	Eugene O'Brien	Aibhlín Ní Dubhghaill	“The Whole Man”: A Discussion of the Influence of Aspects of the Occult and of German Philosophy on Yeats’s Dramatic Theory and Performance External Examiner: Professor Charles Armstrong, University of Agder, Norway
PhD	2013	Anne O'Keeffe Michael McCarthy	James Binchy	Apparent Randomness and Chaotic Non-Linearity: Change over Time in the Essays of a Cohort of Philosophy Undergraduates External Examiners: Professor Svenja Adolphs, University of Nottingham and Dr Paula Buttery, Cambridge University
PhD	2013	Anne O'Keeffe Michael McCarthy	Tania Fahy Palma	Investigating Communicative Strategies in Novice Communities of Practice: A Comparative Study of Engineering and Marketing Meetings External Examiner: Professor Michael Handford, University of Tokyo
PhD	2013	John McDonagh	Dearbhla McCarthy	‘The Examined Life’: The Construction of Identity in the Works of Contemporary Irish Novelist Michael Curtin External Examiner: Dr Eibhear Walsh, University College Cork
PhD	2013	John McDonagh	Conor Farnan	A Moral Map?: A Thematic Study of the Poetry of Paul Durcan External Examiner: Dr Kathleen McKracken, University of Ulster
PhD	2013	Eugene O'Brien	Kristen Butler	War of the Words: Invasion, Colonisation and the Political Gothic External Examiner: Dr Sara-Patricia Wasson, Edinburgh Napier University
PhD	2013	John McDonagh	Louise Liebherr	Reimagining Tolkien: A Post-Colonial Perspective on Lord of the Rings External Examiner: Professor Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London
PhD	2012	Eugene O'Brien John O'Flynn	Matteo Cullen	‘From Astral Weeks to Top Priority via Jailbreak: Commonalities and Tensions in Irish Rock Music, 1968-78’ External Examiner: Dr Gerry Smyth, John Moores University, Liverpool
PhD	2012	Eugene O'Brien	Stephanie Hannon	Gender Violence in Contemporary Literature, Film and Television External Examiner: Dr Stephanie Raines, NUI Maynooth
PhD	2012	Eugene O'Brien	Claire McGrail-Johnston	Mapping the Terrain of Identity: an Exploration of Postcolonial Gothic in Modern Irish Fiction External Examiner: Professor Neil Murphy, Nanyang technological University, Singapore
PhD	2012	John McDonagh	Louise Brett	Paving new Futures: An Analysis of the Poetry of Sinead Morrissey and Colette Bryce External Examiner: Dr Caitriona Clutterbuck, University College Dublin
Phd	2012	John McDonagh	Catherine O'Brien	Refusing to Masquerade: Notions of Truth in the Novels and short Stories of William Trevor External Examiner: Dr Derek Hand, Saint Patrick's College, Dublin City University
PhD	2011	Eugene O’Brien	Brian Walsh	Being Neither Here Nor There: Seamus Heaney’s Poetic Phenomenologies of the Spirit External Examiner: Professor Irene Gilsenan-Nordin, University of Dalarna, Sweden
PhD	2011	Eugene O’Brien	Mary Ryan	Irish Feminist Chick Lit? Examining the Social and Cultural Contexts of Marian Keyes’ Work External Examiner: Professor Imelda Whelehan, University of Tasmania, Hobart, New Zealand
PhD	2011	Eugene O’Brien	Clare Gorman	‘Towards the Undecidable’: A Reading of the texts of James Joyce, Sean O’Casey and Paul Howard through the Deconstructive Lens of Jacques Derrida External Examiner: Professor Thomas J. Halloran, Marian Court College, Swampscott, Massachusetts, USA
PhD	2010	John McDonagh	Leah Harte	The Negotiation of Identity in the Fiction of Jhumpa Lahiri: Borderlands, Translations and Narrativisations External Examiner: Professor Susan Bassnett, University of Warwick, UK
PhD	2010	Anne O’Keeffe Micheal McCarthy	Brian Clancy	A Case Study of Family Discourse in Settled and Traveller Families External Examiner: Professor Ron Carte, University of Nottingham, UK and Dr Christoph Rühlemann Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich
PhD	2010	Anne O’Keeffe Micheal McCarthy	Barbara Orfano	A Corpus-Based Study of the Representation of Spoken Language in Sitcom Discourse External Examiner: Dr Ivor Timmis, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
PhD	2010	Eugene O’Brien Kamel Abu Deeb	Brigid Wallace	Modern Literature by Arab Writers: A Deconstructive Study External Examiner: Professor Rasheed El-Enany, University of Exeter, UK
PhD	2009	John McDonagh	Margaret Page	From the ‘Heart of Sickness’ to the ‘Singing Wound’: A Study of Connectedness in the Works of Brendan Kennelly External Examiner: Dr Lucy Collins, University College Dublin
PhD	2009	Paula Murphy	Lillian Burke	The Language of Selfhood: An Examination of Schizophrenia through Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Postmodernism External Examiner: Professor Hugh Silverman, Stony Brook University, New York, USA
PhD	2009	Paula Murphy	Marita Ryan	Difference Becomes Us: Understanding Difference in a Multicultural Irish Society External Examiner: Professor Gerardine Meaney, University College Dublin
PhD	2009	Anne O’Keeffe Micheal McCarthy	Elaine Vaughan	“Just say something and we can all argue then”: Community and Identity in the Workplace Talk of English Language Teachers External Examiner: Dr Joan Cutting, University of Edinburgh, UK
PhD	2009	Eugene O’Brien	Lesley-Ann Colgan	Depictions of Female Characters in the Works of Blyton, Nesbit and Rowling External Examiner: Dr Celia Keenan, Saint Patrick’s College, Dublin City University
PhD	2008	Eugene O’Brien	Maria Beville	A Study of Gothic Postmodernism in Fiction and Film External Examiner: Professor Tabish Khair, University of Aarhus, Denmark
PhD	2008	Paula Murphy	Kathleen O’Dwyer	The Possibility of Love: An Interdisciplinary Analysis External Examiner: Professor Dermot Moran, University College Dublin
PhD	2008	Eugene O’Brien	Arthur Bloomfield	A Deconstructive Reading of Maria Edgeworth and the Matter of Ireland External Examiner: Professor Martin McQuillan, University of Leeds, UK
PhD	2007	Eugene O’Brien	Maeve Tynan	Postcolonial Theory: Ireland and the Caribbean: Cases in Comparison External Examiner: Professor Maria Fumagalli University of Essex
PhD	2006	John McDonagh	Damien Shortt	‘The State of the Nation’: Nation, Gender and Religion in the Work of Dermot Bolger External Examiner: Dr Gerry Smyth, John Moores University, UK
PhD	2006	Eugene O’Brien	Cathy McGlynn	‘Were Their Differences Similar’ ? Joyce, Derrida and Deconstruction Avant la Lettre External Examiner: Dr Scott Brewster, University of Salford, UK
PhD	2006	Anne O’Keeffe Micheal McCarthy	Bróna Murphy	'The Hand of Time': A Corpus-Based Lexico-Grammatical Analysis of the Influence of Age, as a Sociolinguistic Variable, on All-Female Talk External Examiner: Professor Anna-Brita Stenström, University of Bergen, Norway
PhD	2005	Anne O’Keeffe Micheal McCarthy	María Palma Fahey	A Cross-Cultural Discourse and Pragmatic Analysis of Two Soap Operas “Fair City” and “Amores de Mercado” Compared External Examiner: Professor Vicente Lopez Folgado, Universidad de Córdoba, Spain
PhD	2005	Gerry Dukes Eugene O’Brien	Ivana Milivoijevic	The Reflection of James Joyce’s Narrative Art in the Writing of Danilo Kis External Examiner: Professor Zoran Mulitinovic, School of Slavonic Studies, University of London, UK
PhD	2005	Eugene O’Brien	Paula Murphy	The Post-Millennial Self: Transitory Identities in Contemporary Irish Studies External Examiner: Professor Anne Fogarty, University College Dublin
PhD	2004	Anne O’Keeffe	Radka Obrtelová	The Same and The Other, European and non-European, Western and Eastern: Critical Discourse Analysis of the Conference FORUM 2000 External Examiner: External Examination Committee
PhD	2004	Eugene O’Brien	Eoin Flannery	Fanon’s One Big idea: Ireland and Postcolonial Studies External Examiner: Professor Luke Gibbons, University of Notre Dame, USA
Research MA	2014	John McDonagh and Eugene O'Brien	Fayez Alsane	A Deconstructive Critique of the Writings of Robert Fisk External Examiner: Dr Damian Shortt, Edge Hill University, Lancashire, UK
Research MA	2012	Eugene O'Brien	Sarah Gleeson	Adaptation of English Literature Texts in the Context of the Junior Certificate: A Student-Centred and Theoretical Interrogation External Examiner: Dr Tony Hall, National University of Ireland, Galway
Research MA	2011	Kathryn Laing Maureen O'Connor	Briana Walsh	Irish Female Gothic Fiction: A Study of the Fiction of Regina Maria Roche and Sidney Owenson External Examiner: Dr Elizabeth Tilley, National University of Ireland, Galway
Research MA	2011	Eugene O’Brien	Mark Corcoran	A study of the treatment of the family within James Joyce’s Dubliners External Examiner: Dr Eamon Maher, ITT Dublin
Research MA	2010	John McDonagh	Patrick A. Fleming	A Victorian Modernist? Thomas Hardy and the Nomenclature of Classification External Examiner: Professor Michael Irwin, University of Kent, UK
Research MA	2006	Eugene O’Brien	Brigid Wallace	Representation and Resistance: Postcolonial Theory and Modern Arabic Literature External Examiner: Professor Rasheed El-Enany, Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, UK
Research MA	2005	Eugene O’Brien	Thomas Halloran	A Study of the Development of Irish Identity in the Novels of James Joyce External Examiner: Professor Anne Fogarty, University College Dublin
Research MA	2005	Gerry Dukes	Brian Walsh	Joycean Ciorcumscessions External Examiner: Professor Kevin Barry, NUIG, Galway
Research MA	2004	Eugene O’Brien	Grainne Smith-Muldowney	The Novels of William Faulkner as Analysed through Psychoanalytic Theory External Examiner: Dr Eamon Maher, ITT, Dublin
Research MA	2003	Eugene O’Brien	Martha Dickinson	The Novels of Thomas Hardy and Social Change in Rural English Society External Examiner: Dr Peter Denman, NUIM, Maynooth

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