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WELCOME TO ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
The Department of English Language and Literature in Mary Immaculate College now caters for more than 540 students across all the current degree programmes offered by the college. As well as two undergraduate courses (Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education), the Department has a thriving PhD community, as can be seen in the Department's Postgraduate Studies section.
The Department follows the Harvard style in accordance with the Cite It Right PDF file below. All students are requested to follow this format.
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8th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR FRANCO-IRISH STUDIES
"FRANCE AND IRELAND IN THE PUBLIC IMAGINATION2
We are proud to host this Conference in the department on May 25th and 26th.
All details can be found on the Conference Website:
http://www.afislimerick2012.com/
LECTURE TIMETABLES AND BOOKLISTS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
All of the texts, examination procedures and assessment dates for the Autumn Semester, 2011, can be found hereunder:
ALL YEARS Booklist 2011-2012 Semester 2.doc
| BOOK LAUNCH BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN STUDIES |
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Dr. John McDonnagh (English) , Polish Ambassador His Excellency Marcin Nawrot, President of MIC Prof. Michael A Hayes and Dr. Sabine Egger (German Studies) |
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POSTGRADUATE GRADUATIONS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE OCTOBER 27 2011
Brian Walsh, a student of the Department of English Language and Literature, was awarded his PhD in absentia today. Brian is now working for the new York Institute of technology at their campus in Abu Dhabi.
His PhD thesis was entitled: Being Neither Here Nor There: Seamus Heaney’s Poetic Phenomenologies of the Spirit, and his external examiner was Professor Irene Gilsenan-Nordin, University of Dalarna, Sweden.
Brian’s thesis examined the phenomenological implications of Heaney’s poetry which he analysed through an adequation with the work and thinking of martin Heidegger and Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. His work probes notions of presence and absence, temporal spacing and the expression of being-in-the-world through poetic language.
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Clare Gorman was awarded her PhD today at the graduation ceremony in MIC. Clare’s thesis was entitled: ‘Towards the Undecidable’: A Reading of the Texts of James Joyce, Sean O’Casey and Paul Howard through the Deconstructive Lens of Jacques Derrida.
Her external examiner was Professor Thomas F Halloran, Chair of Liberal Arts Programme, Marian Court College, Massachusetts, USA.
This thesis provided a comparative and contrastive perspective on the works of James Joyce, Sean O’Casey and Paul Howard, with particular thematic focus on their portrayals of Dublin, and of Dubliners of different social classes. The argument of this thesis analysed three major binaries, namely high/popular literature, speech/writing and maleness/femaleness through the texts of Joyce, O’Casey and Howard in order to display how binary logic can be dismantled to the point of undecidability in each case. The theoretical paradigm involved an engagement with a significant number of texts by Jacques Derrida. She is seen here with her supervisor, Dr Eugene O’Brien |
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Mary Ryan, a student of the Department of English Language and Literature, was awarded her PhD today at the graduation ceremony in MIC. Mary’s thesis was entitled:
An Irish Feminist Chick Lit? Examining the Social and Cultural Contexts of Marian Keyes’ Work. Her external examiner was Professor Imelda Whelehan, University of Tasmania, Hobart, New Zealand.
Keyes’s writing was examined through three contextual paradigms: her role as an Irish author (and, importantly, a female Irish author), her role as a chick lit author, and her potential to be an author who addresses contemporary feminist issues. The framework of the thesis was broadly feminist and post-feminist, with reference being made to theorists such as Stephanie Genz, Sarah Gamble, Simone De Beauvoir, Judith Butler, Hélène Cixous, Jacques Derrida and Jacques Lacan. She is pictured here with her supervisor was Dr Eugene O’Brien.
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Kristy Butler, the recipient of the MIC Doctoral Studentship this year. The Award entitles the holder to a subsistence bursary and a fee waiver. This award is allocated through internal competition. Kristy’s thesis involves an analysis of Dracula, War of the Worlds, The Remains of the Day, Heart of Darkness and The Kite Runner, through the theoretical matrix of the political gothic which reveals a number of repressed tropes in thee narratives which have consequences for any reading of the narratives of empire and colonisation. Her work is theoretically informed by the writings of Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Lacan Mikhail Bakhtin and Slavoj Žižek.
She is seen here with her supervisor Dr Eugene O’Brien.
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Deirdre Flynn was awarded one of the two available MIC Studentships this year. A Studentship Award entitles the holder to a fee waiver and a subsistence bursary. This award is allocated through internal competition.
Deirdre is writing her theis on the work of and is examining his work in a postmodern context. She is focusing on specific texts: Kafka on the Shore, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Norwegian Wood, Dance Dance Dance, Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End of The World, 1Q84, and one work of non- fiction, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. There is a comparative analysis with and two of Franz Kafka's works, The Trial and the short story In The Penal Colony. Her postmodern analysis is informed by the works of Jean-François Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard.
She is seen here with her supervisor Dr Eugene O’Brien.
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POSTGRADUATE SEMINAR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
The department is currently running a postgraduate seminar where postgraduate and postdoctoral students discuss their own work and various theoretical issues of interest.
Pictured here, from left, are Donna Mitchell, Kristy Butler, Maria Beville and Michelle Kennedy discussing the Gothic, which was the topic of this week's seminar.
Donna, Kristy and Michelle are all PhD students while Maria is a visiting scholar from Aarhus University in Denmark.