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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
Department of English Staff Publication
Dr Rita Sakr, lecturer in English has recently published an article entitled “The more-than-human refugee journey: Hassan Blasim’s short stories” in a special issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing on Refugee Literature.
Date: Friday, 26 April 2019
English Department lecturer Dr Catherine Gander elected Chair of Irish Association for American Studies
Department of English lecturer Dr Catherine Gander has been elected as the new Chair of the all-island Irish Association for American Studies.
Date: Tuesday, 23 April 2019
Irish Times article on MACMORRIS project
Spearheaded by Prof Patricia Palmer of the Maynooth University Department of English, and Arts and Humanities Research Institute, ‘Mapping Actors and Contexts: Modelling Research in Renaissance Ireland in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century’ (MACMORRIS) has received just under €1 million in the IRC Advanced Laureate programme.
Date: Monday, 22 April 2019
Dr Michael Cronin - Irish Studies Seminar at Columbia University
Dr. Michael Cronin, MU English Department, recently gave a lecture to the Irish Studies Seminar at Columbia University in New York. His topic was: ‘The Political Imagination of Irish Lesbian and Gay Fiction’.
Date: Friday, 12 April 2019
IRC Laureate awarded to Prof Patricia Palmer for first-ever digital map of Ireland’s vibrant 16th century ‘Renaissance’
Gradam Laureate na CTÉ bronnta ar an Ollamh Patricia Palmer don chéad mhapa digiteach riamh de ‘Renaissance’ beoga na hÉireann sa Séú Aois Déag
Date: Thursday, 11 April 2019
Top 250 Global Ranking for Department of English
The Department of English at Maynooth University has been ranked as one of the top 250 in the world in the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject.
Date: Thursday, 28 February 2019