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MORRISSEY, Dr Sinéad * Creative writing (Poetry) Sinéad is the author of four poetry collections: There Was Fire in Vancouver (1996), Between Here and There (2002); The State of the Prisons (2005) and Through the Square Window (2009), all of which are published by Carcanet Press. Her awards include the Patrick Kavanagh Award, an Eric Gregory Award, the Rupert and Eithne Strong Award, and the Michael Hartnett Poetry Prize. Her last three collections have all been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. In 2007 she received a Lannan Literary Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation, U.S.A. Her poem ‘Through the Square Window’ took first place in the UK National Poetry Competition the same year. Her collection ‘Through the Square Window’ was shortlisted for the Forward Prize and was the winner of the Irish Times/Poetry Now Award. She is currently working on a fifth collection, due in 2013. O’DOHERTY, Malachi. Creative Writing (Prose) Malachi is currently the Louis MacNeice Writer in Residence at Queens University. His specialisms are journalism, broadcast journalism and the writing of memoir. To date he has authored five works of non fiction, including appraisals of the strategy of the Provisional IRA (The Trouble With Guns 1998) and an assessment of the decline of the Catholic Church in Ireland (Empty Pulpits 2008). Three of his books are themed memoirs dealing with religion, journalism and his father, and a fourth, due for publication in Spring 2012, is a reflection on the bicycle. Malachi has done over a thousand radio talks on varied themes and writes often in the local media. PATTERSON, Dr Glenn *Creative writing (Fiction) Glenn is the author of seven acclaimed novels: Burning Your Own (1988), for which he was awarded the Rooney Prize and a Betty Trask first novel prize; Fat Lad (1992); Black Night at Big Thunder Moutntain (1995), The International (1999); Number 5 (2003), That Which Was (2004), The Third Party (2007). He is also the author of the essay collection Lapsed Protestant (2006), and the family memoir, Once upon a Hill: Love in Troubled Times (2009). His short stories have been broadcast on Radio 3 and Radio 4, and he has also presented a number of television documentaries on literary and cultural subjects. PEPPER, Dr Andrew *Twentieth-‐century American literature Andrew’s research and teaching interests cover various aspects of 20th century American prose, film and cultural studies, and crime fiction in particular. He has published a book entitled The Contemporary American Crime Novel: Race, Ethnicity, Gender (Edinburgh, 2000) and is co-‐author of American History and Contemporary Hollywood Film (Edinburgh, 2005). He is also the author of four (to date) crime novels set in London between the 1820s and 1840s: The Last Days of Newgate (2006), The Revenge of Captain Paine (2007), Kill-‐Devil and Water (2008), and Bloody Winter (2011) all published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. RAHILLY, Dr Joan Speech Analysis Joan’s primary research and teaching interest is in the phonetics of normal and disordered speech, with particular emphasis on the contribution of speech analysis to interaction and literacy issues. Recent published work includes a study of the communicative consequences of errors in phonetic perception and categorisation, an analysis of vowel systems among hearing-‐impaired speakers, a critical account of techniques for speech imaging, and reflections on interfaces between current transcription practices and clinical speech profiling. REGAN, Dr Shaun Eighteenth-‐century and Romantic literature Shaun’s research and teaching interests include prose fiction, comic discourse, the culture of politeness, and the early Black Atlantic. With Professor Brean Hammond (University of Nottingham), 34
he is the author of Making the Novel: Fiction and Society in Britain, 1660-‐1789 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). He has published articles on Sterne, satire, print culture and the novel, and on Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative. He is currently writing a monograph titled Comic Writing and the Culture of Politeness in Britain, 1690-‐1789, and editing essay collections on 1759 and the Seven Years' War. ROBERTS, Dr Daniel Romantic literature Daniel’s teaching interests range from eighteenth-‐century literature to contemporary Indian literature and postcolonial theory, though his research is focussed largely in the Romantic period. He has produced definitive scholarly editions of Thomas De Quincey’s Autobiographic Sketches (volume 19 of The Works of Thomas De Quincey) and Robert Southey’s The Curse of Kehama (volume 4 of Robert Southey: Poetical Works 1793-‐1810). His most recent book is Thomas De Quincey: New Theoretical and Critical Approaches edited with Robert Morrison. He is currently editing Charles Johnstone’s Oriental novel, The History of Arsaces, Prince of Betlis (1774) for the Early Irish Fiction series from Four Courts Press. SANSOM, Dr Ian *Creative Writing Ian is the author of eight books, including The Truth About Babies (2002), Ring Road (2004), the Mobile Library detective series, The Enthusiast Almanack (2006) and The Enthusiast Field Guide to Poetry (2007). He writes for The Guardian, The London Review of Books, The Irish Times, and The Spectator, and his essays have appeared in numerous books, magazines and journals. He is a regular broadcaster on Radio 3 and Radio 4. SHEEHAN, Professor Estelle Haan *Seventeenth-‐and eighteenth-‐century literature & literary culture Estelle specialises in classical and later Latin literary cultures and their influence on writers in seventeenth-‐ and eighteenth-‐century England. In addition to her stream of articles on Milton she has authored/edited eleven books, including From Academia to Amicitia: Milton’s Latin Writings and the Italian Academies (1998), Thomas Gray’s Latin Poetry: Some Classical, Neo-‐Latin and Vernacular Contexts (2000), Andrew Marvell’s Latin Poetry: From Text to Context (2003), Vergilius Redivivus: Studies in Joseph Addison’s Latin Poetry (2005), Classical Romantic: Identity in the Latin Poetry of Vincent Bourne (2007), Sporting with the Classics: The Latin Poetry of William Dillingham (2010), a full-‐scale edition of Milton’s Latin Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2012), and Both English and Latin: Bilingualism and Biculturalism in Milton’s Neo-‐Latin Writings (American Philosophical Society, 2012). She is currently working on an authored monograph on Georgic transformations in eighteenth-century poetry and culture. SIMPSON, Professor Paul *Sociolinguistics and stylistics Paul’s teaching and research involve study of the English language, with specific interests in stylistics, discourse pragmatics and critical linguistics. He is the new general editor of the journal Language and Literature and has published Language, Ideology and Point of View and Language through Literature, both with Routledge. He has recently published On the Discourse of Satire: Towards a Stylistic Model of Satirical Humour (2003) and Stylistics: A Resource Book for Students (Routledge) appeared in 2004. STREETE, Dr Adrian *Renaissance literature Adrian researches and teaches on early modern literature, with a focus on Calvinism, Puritanism, Catholicism, apocalypticism, early modern politics and the history of ideas. He has published articles in journals such as Textual Practice, The Review of English Studies, Literature and History, Shakespeare, and Literature and Theology, and is the author of Protestantism and Drama in Early Modern England (CUP, 2009), and co-‐editor of Re-‐Figuring Mimesis: Representation in Early Modern 35
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