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Funded PhD Studentship in association with the Irish Research Council’s MACMORRIS Project
The MACMORRIS Project (Mapping Actors and Communities: A Model of Research in Renaissance Ireland in the 16th and 17th Centuries) is a four-year digital-humanities project funded by the Irish Research Council. It seeks to map the full range of cultural activity in Ireland, across languages and ethnic groups, from roughly 1541 to 1691.We are looking to recruit a well-qualified applicant interested in undertaking a research degree at PhD level. To that end, we are inviting applications from candidates interested in undertaking a focused case study that will produce a more granular sense of the period and, thereby, help to redefine it.
Date: Thursday, 16 April 2020
Notice to students regarding Covid19 closure arrangements
The following is some guidance on who to contact, how to stay in touch with us, and information on changes to assessment that we have had to make.
Date: Wednesday, 01 April 2020
MA Literatures of Engagement
Our MA in Literatures of Engagement will develop its students’ skills in critical analysis, argument, persuasion, and communication, and equip them with the ability and initiative to be engaged, responsible, and informed global citizens. Online application open now at www.pac.ie/maynoothuniversity
Date: Monday, 09 March 2020
Department of English Staff Publication
Dr Catherine Gander in the Journal of American Studies (CUP): 'Black and White Landscapes: Topographies of Disorientation in the Works of Carrie Mae Weems and Claudia Rankine'
Date: Thursday, 05 March 2020
Dr Rita Sakr’s ‘Guide to the Best Arabic Literature in Translation’ on RTE Brainstorm
Rita Sakr explores how ‘translation is continually expanding the international readership of contemporary Arabic literature, a body of works that are as relevant to issues of migration, inequality and ecological crisis as they are to debates around boundary-breaking techniques of writing’.
Date: Tuesday, 25 February 2020
Prof Emer Nolan speaks at US conference "The Referent of Ireland in the Nineteenth Century"
Prof Emer Nolan was a speaker at a conference on "The Referent of Ireland in the Nineteenth Century" at the University of Villanova, Pennsylvania.
Date: Friday, 21 February 2020
New book by Prof Emer Nolan reviewed The Irish Times.
New book by Prof Emer Nolan, Five Irish Women: the second republic, 1960-2016, reviewed recently by Catriona Crowe in The Irish Times.
Date: Wednesday, 08 January 2020
Department of English's Dr Catherine Gander and Dr Rita Sakr delivering talks at collaborative symposium
Dr Catherine Gander and Dr Rita Sakr will be delivering talks at the 'Contemporary Literature: Politics and Aesthetics in Crisis' symposium at Queen’s University Belfast
Date: Wednesday, 11 December 2019
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