Dr. Eugene O'Brien

Qualifications: B.Ed. M.A. (N.U.I.), Ph.D. (University of Limerick): Senior Lecturer and Head of English Department
Telephone: 353-61-204989

Email: Eugene.OBrien@mic.ul.ie

You can find my homepage here.

Research Interests: Literary and Cultural Theory, Literature and Ethics, Contemporary Irish Poetry, Literature and Irish Politics, Nationalism

Dr. Kathryn Laing

Qualifications: BA (Rhodes Uni.), M.Phil (Oxford University); D.Phil (Oxford University).

Telephone: 353-61-204132

Email: Kathryn.laing@mic.ul.ie

Research Interests: Late-Nineteenth Century/Early Twentieth Century Feminism and Women’s Writing in Britain and Ireland; Rebecca West, Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen; Modernism; Textual Studies: Editing Theory and History of the Book and writing from Southern Africa.

Ms. Florence O'Connor

Qualifications: M.A., H.D.E. (N.U.I.)
Telephone: 353-61-204376

Email: Florence.OConnor@mic.ul.ie

Research Interests: Renaissance Drama and English Culture, Shakespeare Studies

Dr. John McDonagh

Qualifications: B.A., H.D.E. (N.U.I.); M.A., Ph.D. (University of Warwick)
Telephone: 353-61-204383

Senior Lecturer

Email: John.McDonagh@mic.ul.ie

You can find my homepage here.

Research Interests: Contemporary Postcolonial literature and theory; Contemporary Irish Poetry; Translation studies; life and work of Brendan Kennelly

Dr. Anne O'Keefe

Qualifications: B.Ed. (NUI), MA (UL), PhD (UL)

Telephone: 353-61-204957

Senior Lecturer

Email: anne.okeeffe@mic.ul.ie

Research Interests: Corpus linguistics; the discourse of Irish English; spoken media discourse; the grammar of spoken language; teaching spoken grammar; academic writing; English as a second language in Ireland.

Director of the Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies research centre: http://www.mic.ul.ie/ivacs/default.htm

Dr. Maureen O'Connor.

Qualifications: B.A. (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois); M.A. (Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California); Ph.D. (Claremont Graduate University).

Telephone: 353-61-204386

Email: maureen.oconnor@mic.ul.ie

Research Interests: Irish Ecocriticism / Ecofeminism; Irish New Woman Writers; Oscar Wilde; The Dandy in British, Irish, and American Culture; The Nineteenth-Century Irish Novel; Edna O’Brien; Colonial/Postcolonial Irish Studies.