Faculty Professor

Department of Rhetoric in Culture and the Media

Office Hours

office hours: MONDAY 1:00-2:00 pm

 

Room: 4.68

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Titles and Degrees

M.A. in English literature - 1995

PhD in literary studies - 1999

D. Litt. - 2008

Research Interests

rhetoric

Irish culture and literature

cultural memory studies

autobiography as a cultural phenomenon

Courses Taught

MA seminar (Irish film and literature)

Communication studies

Introduction to literarary studies

research methods in the humanities (for PhD students)

Information for possible Ph.D. candidates

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