Dr. Alan English

Head of the Department

Contact Details

Office : M25, Department of French, St. Patrick’s College, Dublin 9, Ireland.

E-mail : Alan.English @spd.dcu.ie

Phone: +353 1 884 2142

Fax: +353 1 8376197

• Undergraduate (BA) degree from NUI, Galway (1993)
• Postgraduate degrees (MA in French from NUI, Galway (1995), DEA in French Literature & Civilisation from Université de Paris IV-La Sorbonne (1996) and PhD from University of Dublin, Trinity College (1999))
• Junior Lecturer in Department of Languages & Cultural Studies, University of Limerick 1999-2000
• Government of Ireland Post-Doctoral Fellow in Trinity College 2000-01
• Assistant Lecturer, then Lecturer in Department of French, St. Patrick’s College since 2001
• Acting Head of Department 2007-08

Teaching Areas

• 20th-century French Novel & Theatre
• 19th-century Novel & Genre Studies
• Modern French Poetry
• Theatre of the Avant-garde (Ionesco & Genet)
• French Fantasy Literature and Theory
• Impressionism, Prose Poetry

Research Interests

• French Prosody & Versification
• Poetry of Verlaine
• Baudelairian Prose Poetry
• French Travel Literature (late 18th to late 19th century)
• Hypertext Fiction, Print Culture & Numeric Poetry

Recent Publications

• Verlaine, poète indécidable, Rodopi, Amsterdam/New York, 2005
• Reading Images and Seeing Words (edited with Rosalind Silvester), Rodopi, 2004.

Other Academic Activities

• Member of the Society of Dix-neuviémistes
• Member of the Academic Council of St. Patrick’s College
• Member of the following College committees : Research, International Affairs, MA Programme Board, Standing Committee of Academic Council

 

 

 

Last Updated: Thursday October 21 2010