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UCD School of English, Drama and Film is Ireland’s largest and most diverse School devoted to the interpretation of literary, media, and performance cultures.
The School of English, Drama and Film is ranked at number 40 in the world by QS World University Rankings in the subject area, English Language and Literature, as of 2024.
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Qualification : PHILOSOPHIAE DOCTOR DEGREE
Award Type and NFQ level : RESEARCH PH.D. (10)
CAO/PAC code : MHK02 (PT), MHK03 (FT)
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Candidates take 50 credits over three years. This is comprised of GSA1, GSA2, GSA3, EN841, EN842, EN851, EN852, EN861, EN862 plus at least one other module from the list of optional modules.
Closing date Research applications are generally accepted at any time
Commences September (or other agreed time)
Applicants must have a recognised primary degree which is considered equivalent to Irish university primary degree level.
Minimum English language requirements:
Applicants for whom English is not their first language are required to demonstrate their proficiency in English in order to benefit fully from their course of study. For information about English language tests accepted and required scores, please see here . The requirements specified are applicable for both EU and International applicants.
Maynooth University's TOEFL code is 8850
Prof. Lauren Arrington Research interests include: twentieth-century British and Irish literature, modernism, drama, life writing, war writing, and imprisonment.
Dr. Conrad Brunstrom Research interests focus on eighteenth century culture and literature, with particular attention to theories of rhetoric, and gender theory.
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 Pan-African nationalism and political cultures especially the writings of W.E.B. Du Bois, C.L.R. James and Ken Saro-Wiwa, black internationalism, classic and contemporary Anglophone African fiction, black autobiography, Afropolitanism and the New African diaspora, contemporary Nigerian genre fiction, queer African writing, queer visual cultures in Africa.
Dr. Michael G. Cronin Twentieth century and contemporary Irish fiction, Irish gay and lesbian/queer fiction, history of the bildungsroman and Irish writing, Realism and Irish writing; Catholicism and Irish writing. Irish Studies; Gender and Sexuality/Lesbian and Gay/Queer Studies, Marxist, Postcolonial and Feminist literary criticism.
Dr. Oona Frawley Academic research interests include Irish literature and culture; memory and trauma studies, ecocriticism, postcolonialism, writings of New Zealand and Australia, Edmund Spenser. As a novelist and short story writer, I also supervise and am interested in supervising creative writing work, particularly in prose.
Dr. Catherine Gander American literature and culture: modern and contemporary poetry and fiction, including Muriel Rukeyser, Frank OHara, Claudia Rankine, and Don DeLillo, radical literature and art, art, photography, and visual culture, the intersections between word and image, documentary/witness poetics and aesthetics, anticolonialism, embodiment, pragmatism.
Prof. Colin Graham Research interests include: Irish visual culture, contemporary writing from Northern Ireland, Brexit and Ireland, nineteenth-century poetry.
Dr. Conor McCarthy Interests include Edward Said, Edmund Burke and James Connolly. Intellectuals as a social and political category or class, intellectual politics and activism. Also, the history of criticism, especially Marxist criticism, in Ireland and elsewhere. Methodologies and theories of intellectual history. Also the question of Palestine and the fiction of contemporary Palestine/Israel.
Prof. Emer Nolan Irish and British nineteenth-century fiction; Thomas Moore; nineteenth-century Irish political writing, the Irish Literary Revival, modernism, James Joyce, Marxist, feminist and postcolonial literary and cultural theory, Irish womens writing, contemporary Irish fiction.
Dr. Stephen ONeill Shakespeare studies, especially Shakespeares afterlives; contemporary Shakespeare adaptation studies and digital cultures; early modern literature, especially drama and theatre; early modern Ireland.
Prof. Pat Palmer Early Modern Ireland, the writing of violence, conflict, and conquest, linguistic colonisation, Renaissance poetry, translation.
Dr. Rita Sakr Migrant and refugee literature and film; postcolonialism, Middle-Eastern and Mediterranean studies, modern Arab (including diasporic) literature and film, modern Turkish and Kurdish literature in translation, literary and cultural geography, the city in literature and film, interdisciplinary approaches to human rights, peacekeeping and peacebuilding, post-conflict memory studies.
Dr. Moynagh Sullivan Research interests include Irish postmodernism, gender theory and contemporary Irish womens writing.