School of English

Academic Staff

Head of School

• Professor Ed Larrissy - Poetry and Irish Writing



Professors

• 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 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 Fran Brearton - Modern Irish and British Literature
• Dr Leon Litvack - Literature and Imperialism
• Dr Daniel Sanjiv Roberts - Romanticism and Indian Literature in English



Senior Lecturers

• Dr Moyra Haslett - 18th Century Literature
• Dr Eamonn Hughes - Irish Literary and Cultural Studies
• Dr John Kirk - English and Scottish Language
• Dr Philip McGowan - American Literature
• Dr Sinead Morrissey - Creative Writing (Poetry)
• Dr Joan Rahilly - Phonetics of Irish English; disordered speech
• Dr Adrian Streete - Renaissance Literature
• Dr Ramona Wray - Renaissance Literature and Women's Writing

Lecturers

• Dr Maria Cesario - Medieval Literature and Historical Linguistics
• Dr David Dwan - 19th and 20th Century Literature
• Dr Stephen Kelly - Later Medieval Literature
• Tim Loane - Creative Writing (Scriptwriting)
• Dr Andrea Mayr - English Language
• Medbh McGuckian - Creative Writing (Poetry)
• Dr Michael McAteer - Irish Literature
• Glenn Patterson - Creative Writing (Fiction)
• Dr Andrew Pepper - American Literature
• Dr Shaun Regan - 18th Century Literature
• Dr Ian Sansom - Creative Writing
• Dr Sinead Sturgeon - Irish Literature
• Dr Caroline Sumpter - Victorian Literature
• Dr Malte Urban - Later Medieval Literature

Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow

• Owen McCafferty

Research Fellow

• Dr Leontia Flynn