Professor Richard Dutton, World Leading Researcher

Professor Ed Larrissy, Poetry and Irish Writing

Professor Edna Longley, Irish and Modern Literature

Professor Hugh Magennis, Literature in Anglo-Saxon England

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

Rus Bradburd (Fulbright Scholar) is a Chicago native and the author of four books, including the recent All the Dreams We've Dreamed: a Story of Hoops and Handguns on Chicago's West Side and Paddy on the Hardwood: a Journey in Irish Hoops. His latest book project focuses on the assimilation of refugees into Northern Irish culture through sport.
After coaching basketball for fourteen seasons at University of Texas, El Paso (UTEP) and New Mexico State University, he left the game to pursue a life in writing. A professor in NMSU’s MFA program, his books focus on the intersections of sport, social justice, and race. He still directs his acclaimed Basketball in the Barrio summer program in El Paso, Texas.

Laura Ferri (Fulbright Scholar) is a theatre artist from Seattle who specializes in the creation of performances derived from oral histories. Recent works include writing and directing Friends Across the Wires, concerning the American incarceration of the Japanese and The Ruins of Memory: Women’s Voices of the Holocaust. Her play Crates of Thunder explored WWII through the lens of the B-17, touring internationally to critical acclaim. A strong advocate for accessibility, Laura has created productions with the blind community. While at Queen’s she will work on a play looking at the impact of the American military on the Northern Irish community during WWII. 

Katharina Bock, Marie Curie Research Fellow

Daniel Brice, Researh Assistant

Thea Buckley,  Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Ceri Byrne, Senior Research Fellow

Natalie Calder, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Ruth Coon, Research Fellow

Alison Garden, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow

Shonagh Hill, Marie Curie Research Fellow

Frances Kane, Research Fellow

Amy Prendergast, Marie Curie Research Fellow

Ann-Maria Walsh, Marie Curie Research Fellow

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