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Award-winning Turkish writer Ece Temelkuran delivers the Dean’s Lecture
Award-winning Turkish writer and political thinker, Ece Temelkuran delivered the Dean’s Lecture as part of Research Week at Maynooth University.
Date: Wednesday, 23 October 2019
Department of English Staff Publication
Our MA co-ordinator Dr Rita Sakr’s archive-based research study on “Imagining Mid-Nineteenth-Century Beirut as a ‘City of the World’: Public Intellectuals, Photography, Cartography, and Historical Literature” has just been published in the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies.
Date: Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Shakespeare’s King Lear is a Brexit play, argues Dr Stephen O’Neill
Shakespeare’s King Lear is a Brexit play, argues Stephen O’Neill, in a new article that explores a range of discourses and media, from theatre productions and journalism to social media.
Date: Friday, 27 September 2019
Department of English's Dr Rita Sakr in discussion on BBC World Service
Dr Rita Sakr, MA co-ordinator in the Department of English, was the main guest on the 2-hour BBC World Service Weekend show on Sunday 15 September.
Date: Sunday, 15 September 2019
Funded PhD Studentship on the IRC’s MACMORRIS Project
Funded PhD Studentship on the Irish Research Council’s MACMORRIS Project.
Date: Friday, 23 August 2019
Call for Applications: Department of English Doctoral Scholarship
Maynooth University Department of English Doctoral Scholarship.
Date: Monday, 08 July 2019
Consultation Day 2019
Academic staff will be available for consultation on Wednesday 3 July from 10am to 12:30pm and 2pm to 4pm.
Date: Wednesday, 03 July 2019
WRITERS-IN-RESIDENCE APPOINTED FOR 2019/20
Maynooth University Department of English and Kildare County Council Arts and Library Services are thrilled to announce the appointment of Annemarie Ní Churrreáin and Sue Rainsford as Writers-in-Residence for 2019/20.
Date: Tuesday, 18 June 2019
Department of English Staff Publication
Dr Michael G Cronin, lecturer in the English Department, is among the contributors to a recently published volume of essays, Reading Brendan Behan (Cork UP, 2019) edited by John McCourt. Dr Cronin's essay is titled: ‘Eros and Liberation: the homoerotic body in Borstal Boy’.
Date: Tuesday, 21 May 2019