Research

Spring 2021 PhD Dissertation: "Networks of Nurture in 20th and 21st Century Irish Fiction by Women"

“Looking Back at Maternity: The “Spirit” of Inis Meáin in Synge’s The Aran Islands and Emily Lawless’s Grania”
“Claiming Her Story: “Ideal” Catholic Motherhood and Stephen Frears’s Philomena”
“Mothers Under Erasure: Barry’s The Secret Scripture and Enright’s The Gathering”
“And now for the children!” Parent-Child Deviations in Melmoth the Wanderer”
“Moments of de Manian Collapse in Muldoon’s ‘A Trifle’ and ‘The Briefcase’”