School of English

Academic Staff

Head of School

• Professor Ed Larrissy - Poetry and Irish Writing

Professors

• Professor Fran Brearton - Modern Irish and British Literature
• Professor Mark Burnett - Renaissance Literature
• Professor Brian Caraher - Modern Literature and Theory
• Professor Ciaran Carson - Director of Seamus Heaney Centre
• Professor Ellen Douglas-Cowie
• Professor Moyra Haslett - 18th Century Literature
• Professor Hugh Magennis - Literature in Anglo-Saxon England
• Professor Estelle A.M. Sheehan - 17th and 18th Century Literature; the classical tradition in English Literature
• Professor Paul Simpson - English Language
• Professor John Thompson - Later Medieval Literature

Readers

• Dr Leon Litvack - Literature and Imperialism
• Dr Sinead Morrissey - Creative Writing (Poetry)
• Dr Daniel Sanjiv Roberts - Romanticism and Indian Literature in English
• Dr Ramona Wray - Renaissance Literature and Women's Writing

Senior Lecturers

• Dr Eamonn Hughes - Irish Literary and Cultural Studies
• Dr Philip McGowan - American Literature
• Glenn Patterson - Creative Writing (Fiction)
• Dr Andrew Pepper - American Literature
• Dr Joan Rahilly - Phonetics of Irish English; disordered speech
• Dr Adrian Streete - Renaissance Literature
• Dr Caroline Sumpter - Victorian Literature

Lecturers

• Dr Garrett Carr - Creative Writing
• Dr Maria Cesario - Medieval Literature and Historical Linguistics
• Dr Catherine Gander - American Literature
• Dr Derek Johnston - Broadcast Literacy
• Dr Stephen Kelly - Later Medieval Literature
• Dr Edel Lamb - Renaissance Literature
• Dr Stefanie Lehner - Irish Literature
• Tim Loane - Creative Writing (Scriptwriting)
• Dr Andrea Mayr - English Language
• Dr Darran McCann - Creative Writing
• Dr Gail McConnell - Contemporary Literature
• Medbh McGuckian - Creative Writing (Poetry)
• Dr Shaun Regan - 18th Century Literature
• Dr Sinead Sturgeon - Irish Literature
• Dr Malte Urban - Later Medieval Literature

Temporary Lecturers

• Dr Lucy Cogan - Eighteenth Century and Romantic Literature
• Dr Deborah Russell - Eighteenth Century and Romantic Literature

Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow

• Brian McAvera

Research Fellow

• Dr Leontia Flynn