Faculty Professor
Department of Rhetoric in Culture and the Media
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M.A. in English literature - 1995
PhD in literary studies - 1999
D. Litt. - 2008
rhetoric
Irish culture and literature
cultural memory studies
autobiography as a cultural phenomenon
MA seminar (Irish film and literature)
Communication studies
Introduction to literarary studies
research methods in the humanities (for PhD students)
Research interests:
Irish studies, including Northern Irish studies (especially XX century and XXI century)
cultural memory in political and historical contexts
rhetoric in cultural and literary discourses; representation in discourse; performative dimensions of cultural discourses
contemporary historical novels; historiography vs. literature; contemporary varieties of realism
autobiography, the autobiographical novel;
campus fiction
American pragmatism and neopragmatism