English Language and Literature Irish Literature in English England Ireland Scotland Wales
Elected 2006
Literary realism; history and theory of consumer culture; Freud, especially in relation to Greek tragedy and feminist reappraisals; Virginia Woolf; contemporary French philosophy.
19th and 20th-century British and American literature (Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling); the work of Marcel Proust; poetry and popular song, especially the work of Bob Dylan
Film history, cultural memory, object-relations psychoanalysis and film theory