Professor Ed Larrissy, Poetry and Irish Writing

Professor Edna Longley, Irish and Modern Literature

Professor Hugh Magennis, Literature in Anglo-Saxon England

Medbh McGuckian, 

Professor Dónall P. Ó Baoill, Irish

Professor Estelle A.M. Sheehan, 17th and 18th Century Literature; the classical tradition in English Literature

Professor Jan Smaczny, Hamilton Harty Chair of Music

Professor John Thompson, Later Medieval Literature

Lindsey Appell (Fulbright Scholar, Semester 2 2022-23) 'My poetics and my pedagogy are both concerned with joyful subversion and liberatory chaos. My scholarly interests include Anglo-Saxon poetry, medieval romance and Arthuriana, Jane Austen, James Joyce, and postcolonial criticism and theory.'

Maria McGarrity (Fulbright Scholar, Semester 2 2022-23) 'My work in British, Irish, and Caribbean literatures and cultures grows out of a desire to examine the intersections between literary modernism and the global impact of colonialism. I am particularly interested in the demise of the British Empire and the role of geography in creating what I call an "island imaginary" for writers. For example, EA Markham's Letters from Ulster and the Hugo Poems joins the "Troubles" of Northern Ireland with the aftermath of Hurricane Hugo in the Caribbean and highlights the imperfect and yet enduring relation among these cultures. The complex interplay of cultures that makes up both Ireland and the Caribbean, the islands they inhabit both literally and metaphorically, ensures that neither peoples nor cultures exist in anything less than a "meta-archipelago." The links in these chains of islands and peoples, dispersed geographically, economically, and politically connect strongly not simply throughout the North Atlantic but throughout the larger diasporic world.'

Dr Taarini Mookherjee At Queen’s, I am a Newton International Fellow sponsored by the British Academy, working on a project titled ‘Shakespeare, India, Diaspora’. I previously taught literature at Columbia University, New York, and SUNY, New Paltz. I received my PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and hold a Masters in Shakespeare Studies from King’s College London. My broader research fields include global Shakespeare, postcolonial theory, and theatre and performance studies. 

Dr Noelia López Souto (Semester 2 2023-24) teaches Spanish literature at the University of La Laguna in Tenerife. Her 2018 doctorate at the University of Salamanca focused on the correspondence between the Spanish ilustrado J.-N. de Azara and the Italian printer Giambattista Bodoni. Her broader research fields include the literature and culture of the Spanish eighteenth century, eighteenth-century. book history, and contemporary theatre, with special attention to the playwright Juan Mayorga. She is the coordinator of the research portal Biblioteca Bodoni. In 2022, her article on the eighteenth-century Spanish poet José Iglesias de la Casa, published in the Boletín de la Real Academia Española CII.326 (2022), was awarded the prize for best research article by an early career scholar by the Sociedad Española del Siglo XVIII.

Dr Lucas Amaral de Oliveira (British Academy Visiting Fellow, August to December 2023)
Dr Lucas Amaral de Oliveira is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) in Brazil. During his stay at QUB, Dr Oliveira worked on a project about “Contested Histories of Nation-Building: Counternarratives in Contemporary Brazilian Literature”.

Dr. Emre Ozmen  [Visiting Scholar Jan -Dec 2023; ‘Margarita Salas’ (Spanish Ministry for Universities funding scheme) postdoctoral researcher, based in the Modern Languages Core Disciplinary Research Group.
Dr Ozmen is working on a project on the representation of women writers in the nineteenth-century Spanish press. Her scholarly interests include gender-focused approaches to Golden Age Spanish and Sephardic literature.

Dr María Martos [Visiting Scholar: academic year 2023-2024, “Requalification of University Teaching Staff” Scholarship, granted by the Ministry for Universities (Spain) and financed by the European Union and the Next Generation Fund, call 2022].
Dr. Martos is a Professor in the Department of Spanish Literature at the UNED, Madrid, Spain. Her research has focused on 16th and 17th centuries literature, incorporating methodologies from Literary Sociology, Cultural History, Discourse Analysis and Reception Theory. Her main line of research is the theme of female authorship and its discursive and textual expression.

Katharina Bock, Marie Curie Research Fellow

Natalie Calder, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Ruth Duffy, Research Fellow

Shonagh Hill, Marie Curie Research Fellow

Frances Kane, Research Fellow

Leonid Kuzmenko, Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher

Alex Lucas, Research Fellow

Emer McHugh, Marie Curie Research Fellow

Louise McKeever, Research Fellow

Emma Soye, Research Assistant

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