SOPHISTER OPTIONS
School of English
2011/2012
LIST A (MON 11-1) TERM (S) NO. OF LIST B (WED 3 & FRI 11) TERM(S) NO. OF
TERMS TERMS
Shakespeare & Sexuality Prof Nicholas Grene YEAR 2 Poetry of the United States Mr Alex Runchman YEAR 2
Women Writing War Dr Eve Patten YEAR 2 Yeats & the Makers of Modern Irish Poetry Dr YEAR 2
Thomas Walker
African & Caribbean Literature Dr Melanie Otto YEAR 2 Monsters! 19th-c. Horror & its Cultural Afterlife MT 1
Dr Jarlath Killeen
Irish Literary Autobiographical Writing Christina YEAR 2 Medieval English Drama Prof Peter Travis MT 1
Hunt Mahony
American Letters Dr Philip Coleman YEAR 2 The Modernist Short Story Dr Jenny McDonnell MT 1
Ulysses in Contexts Dr Sam Slote YEAR 2 Children's Voices in Early-Modern Texts Dr HT 1
Amanda Piesse
Irish Children's Literature Dr Pádraic Whyte MT 1 The Revolutionary Muse: Form and theme in HT 1
Romantic poetry and poetics Dr Daragh Downes
Detective Fiction Prof Ian Ross MT 1 Early Modern Women Writers Dr Ema HT 1
Vyroubalova
Shopkeepers & Savages: Literature, Society, and MT 1
Historical change in the Long 18th Century Dr Jim
Kelly CANCELLED
Hobgoblin Romances and Shilling Shockers: The MT 1
Rise of the Literary Gothic, 1750-1830 Dr Christina
Morin
Community & Contemporary Irish Literature Dr HT 1
Brian Cliff
Jonathan Swift: In his Age and Ours Prof Ian Ross HT 1
American Gothic: Landscape of Fear Dr Bernice HT 1
Murphy
LIST C (TUES 3 & THURS 2) TERM(S) NO. OF LIST D (WED 10-12) TERM(S) NO. OF
TERMS
TERMS
Older People in Children's Literature Dr Amanda YEAR 2 Postwar/Postnation: Irish & British Poetry since YEAR 2
Piesse 1945 Mr Gerald Dawe
Chaucer Dr Brendan O'Connell YEAR 2 Literary Childhoods: From Locke to Lewis YEAR 2
Carroll Dr Anne Markey
The Poetry of War Mr Gerald Dawe MT 1 Critical Approaches to Children's Literature Dr YEAR 2
Pádraic Whyte
Literature of the American South Prof Stephen MT 1 Faith & Writing: The Victorian Literature of YEAR 2
Matterson Belief Dr Jarlath Killeen
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School of English
2011/2012
Beckett's Diminishing Prose of the World Dr Sam MT 1 Hawthorne and Melville Prof Stephen Matterson YEAR 2
Slote
Jane Austen Dr Darryl Jones MT 1 Creative Writing Dr Deirdre Madden YEAR 2
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John Donne: Life & Poetry Prof Eiléan Ní HT 1 Post-Colonial Women's Writing Dr Melanie Otto MT 1
Chuilleanáin
LIST C continued (TUES 3 & THURS 2) TERM(S) NO. OF LIST D continued (WED 10-12) TERM(S) NO. OF
TERMS
TERMS
Art Writing Dr Thomas Walker HT 1 Post-Modern Fiction: Maps, Labyrinths, Webs MT 1
Dr Brenda Silver
Death in American Life & Letters Dr Dara Downey HT 1 Digital Humanities Now Dr Susan Schreibman MT 1
Postwar British Fiction Dr Eve Patten HT 1
Home on the Stage Prof Nicholas Grene HT 1
David Foster Wallace Dr Philip Coleman HT 1
Irish Short Fiction Dr Paul Delaney HT 1
Irish Women's Writing Dr Heather Ingman HT 1
OPEN LIST TERM(S) NO. OF COMPULSORY COURSES TERM(S) NO. OF
TERMS TERMS
Old Norse Dr Helen Conrad O’Briain YEAR 2 The Book (JS TSM & JS SH) (10 ECTS) YEAR 2
Tragic Patterns in Ancient Drama Dr Andrew YEAR 2
Power
Old English Poetry & Prose Dr Alice Jorgensen YEAR 2
Global Shakespeare Dr Ema Vyroubalova YEAR 2
Arthurian Literature Dr Alice Jorgensen MT 1
19th Century Irish Writing Dr Brian Cliff MT 1
The Gawain -Poet Dr Brendan O'Connell HT 1
Milton & the Revolutionary Image Dr Crawford HT 1
Gribben
DISSERTATION OPTION
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SOPHISTER OPTIONS
School of English
2011/2012
Dissertation Option Supervisor Assigned YEAR 2
*See attached information. (SS ONLY)
Please consult the instructions on the Module Selection Form specific to your year.
Each module will have a limited number of places. It will not be possible for all students to be enrolled in their first preference(s).
The choice of modules in Lists A, B, C, D and OPEN is limited by timetable considerations.
The modules in each List are taught in set time-slots as indicated.
*The same courses cannot be taken in both Sophister years.
*Only 30 places are available for the Senior Sophister dissertation option (year-long). Please see attached for further information.
*Only 20 places are available for the Senior Sophister Creative Writing option (year-long). Please see attached for further information.
*Senior Sophister students may apply for both the Dissertation and Creative Writing options on their option selection form but can only
be accepted for one. *Students cannot take both the Dissertation and the Creative Writing option.
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