English Department, Maynooth University

With a history that dates back to the 19th century, the English Department at Maynooth is a centre of cutting-edge research in Irish, British, Anglophone and other global literatures. Our internationally-renowned scholars are widely published and influential in shaping the field of literary studies, as well as dedicated to top quality teaching. With a rich postgraduate culture, the Department accommodates a diverse range of research interests including:

• American Literature
• Creative Writing
• Eighteenth-Century Literature
• Film studies
• Gender studies
• Irish Literature
• Literary Theory
• Modernism
• Migrant Writing
• Postcolonial, Global Literatures, and Critical Race Studies
• Renaissance and early modern studies, especially the Irish / Gaelic context
• Shakespeare studies
• Visual Culture