Dr Aoileann Ni Eigeartaigh

Senior Lecturer 1 (teaching)

Department of Humanities

| Room: E141

Biography

I have been a lecturer in English Literature and Cultural Studies at DkIT since 2000. I teach a variety of literature modules, ranging from Irish to American, Elizabethan to Contemporary. I have also published widely in the areas of Irish Literature, American Literature, Feminism and Border Studies. Recent articles have looked at Northern Irish women writers, contemporary feminist adaptations of fairytales and the role of the humanities during the covid pandemic.

Teaching

BA (Hons) in Arts

Course type: Undergraduate

Study mode: Full-Time

Duration: 3 Years

Start date: Sep 2025

Qualifications & Awards

1997-2000 Phd University of Edinburgh. PhD Thesis Title: "I Shop, Therefore I Am: Consumerism and the Mass Media in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Bret Easton Ellis and Douglas Coupland".

1996-7 MA in English Literature and Publishing, NUI Galway. MA Thesis Title: "My Prison-Cell, My Fortress: A Study of Psychological Imprisonment in the works of Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett and Arthur Miller".

1993-6: BA (English and History). NUI Galway.

Publications

The publications listed below represent my 10 most recent works as recorded on ORCiD

Transculturale, vol. 3.2
2023
Type: Journal article

Clues, vol. 41, no. 2
2023
Type: Journal article

Cambridge Scholars Publishing
January 2022
Type: edited-book

Otherness Essays and Studies 8.3
2022
Type: Journal article

2022
Type: Book chapter

The Graveyard in Literature: Liminality and Social Critique.
2022
Type: Book chapter

Women Writing Trauma in Literature, ed. Laura Alexander.
2022
Type: Book chapter

School of Business and Humanities Research Day.
June 2021
Type: Conference paper

Department of Humanities Symposium on Society and the Arts in the Pandemic.
April 2021
Type: Conference paper

Dr Aoileann Ni Eigeartaigh

Biography

Teaching

BA (Hons) in Arts

Qualifications & Awards

Publications

’Listen: Still, the Echo of Loss’: Choctaw and Irish Transcultural Engagement in the Poetry of LeAnne Howe and Doireann Ní Ghríofa ’Listen: Still, the Echo of Loss’: Choctaw and Irish Transcultural Engagement in the Poetry of LeAnne Howe and Doireann Ní Ghríofa

“Not everything buried is actually dead”: The Detective as Historian in Louise Penny’s Bury Your Dead “Not everything buried is actually dead”: The Detective as Historian in Louise Penny’s Bury Your Dead

The Graveyard in Literature: Liminality and Social Critique The Graveyard in Literature: Liminality and Social Critique

Between Here and There: Liminality and the Tolerance of Oppositions in Sinead Morrissey&#039;s Japanese Sequence. Between Here and There: Liminality and the Tolerance of Oppositions in Sinead Morrissey's Japanese Sequence.

“ ‘I feel it so strongly here, her echo’: Performing Grief and Releasing Ghosts in Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s A Ghost in the Throat”. “ ‘I feel it so strongly here, her echo’: Performing Grief and Releasing Ghosts in Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s A Ghost in the Throat”.

“ ‘This is a female text’: Transforming Trauma through Jouissance in Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s A Ghost in the Throat”. “ ‘This is a female text’: Transforming Trauma through Jouissance in Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s A Ghost in the Throat”.

Organizing a Symposium on the Impact of the Arts during the Pandemic” (with Dr Fiona Fearon). . Organizing a Symposium on the Impact of the Arts during the Pandemic” (with Dr Fiona Fearon). .

“A Plague o’ Both Your Houses: Reading the Literature of the Plague during the Covid-19 Pandemic”. “A Plague o’ Both Your Houses: Reading the Literature of the Plague during the Covid-19 Pandemic”.