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Dr Gail McConnell

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Dr Gail McConnell

Dr Gail McConnell

School of Arts, English and Languages

Dr McConnell’s monograph, Northern Irish Poetry and Theology, examines how theology shapes the status and constitution of subjectivity, language, and poetic form in the work of Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and Derek Mahon. She has published articles on Northern Irish poetry after the peace process, and on Heaney’s manuscript drafts.

McConnell also publishes poetry. She is interested in the politics of aesthetic form, and in the relationship between violence, artistic practice and literary reception.

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  • g.mcconnell@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 1073
  • @gfmcconnell

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of

  • Contemporary Poetry
  • Modern Irish and British poetry
  • Poetics
  • She supervises students undertaking both critical and creative projects in poetry

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Public outreach & key achievements

  • Dr McConnell was Principal Investigator for 'Listening to Voices: Creative Disruptions with the Hearing Voices 
    Network' funded by the AHRC under the Connected Communities Programme.
  • She won the Ink, Sweat and Tears Poetry Pamphlet Competition 2017 and her work has been funded by the Arts Council Northern Ireland
  • Beyond the academy, she has given and hosted talks at Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Mountains to Sea/Poetry Now, Happy Days International Beckett Festival, Dublin Writers Festival, Aspects Festival, and on the Seamus Heaney: Five Fables TV series and app.
  • She co-edits The Irish Review.
  • She has read poetry at Just For One Day – marking the twentieth anniversary of the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement; Belfast Pride, Carafest; and at the Universities of York and Reading.

Research students

PhD Title Labour in the poetry of W.B. Yeats
Country United Kingdom
   
PhD Title  The Northern Irish Poetry of the 1960s and 1970s and the Politics of Reception
Country  United Kingdom
   

 


Alumni: Where are they now

PhD Title If All the World and Love Were Young and “A Body That is Made into A Sign”: Elegy, Translation and Ekphrasis in Anne Carson’s Nox.
Country United Kingdom
Current Position  Teaching Assistant at Queen’s University, Belfast
   
PhD Title  'The Breadbasket of Europe: new poems and moving images; Perpetual Speech: Hollis Frampton's Gloria! as Lyric Poem’
Country  Ireland
   

 

 


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