ma students

This is a list of graduates of the MA in Poetry Studies, and their dissertation topics.  Current students are also listed, along with their projects-in-progress.

• Sharon Allen Performance Poetry and Rape Education
• Amanda Bell An Ecopoetic Reading of Theodore Roethke
• Sarah Branagan Clarke on Patrick Kavanagh
• Leo Breslin is working on T.S.Eliot, Shakespeare and Procrastination
• Jane Clare currently working on Poetry and Pronouns
• Marguerite Colgan is working on a study of Living through Poetry
• Connor Connolly Ovid and Literary Darwinism
• Liza Costello  Irish Pastoral and Eco-Criticism
• James Dalton is working on Walt Whitman
• Helen Dempsey The Problem with Wayne Koestenbaum
• Maurice Devitt James Wright Last Poems
• Joe Fitzpatrick on Poetry after the Holocaust and the Challenge of Language
• Brenda Flanagan on Kavanagh and Irish Politics
• Catherine Fogarty Emily Dickinson and “Hope”
• Sean Fox The Poetics of the Logos Hymn
• Kieran Furey A New Translation of Pablo Neruda’s Canto General
• Aisling Geraghty  Poetry and Teaching Creativity
• Lizann Gorman Anna Akhmatova and Intercultural Transmission
• Brian Gormley Bob Dylan’s Main Phase
• Joan Hallissey on Paul Durcan
• Luka Hargan Blakes’s Innocence
• Rob Harvey Bruce Springsteen and Autobiography
• Evelyn Keane Philip Larkin and his Influences
• Alan Keenan is working on Fernando Pessoa’s Heteronyms
• Bernie Malone 'Soul Brothers: Style and Spirituality in the Poetry of Leonard Cohen and Patrick Kavanagh'
• Donal Magner is working on Medieval Irish Poetry and Arborescent Poetics
• Maighread Medbh is working on Adrienne Rich, Dylan Thomas and Love
• Anne McCrudden currently working on Seamus Heaney and Familiality
• David McConnell is working on Contemporary Poetry and New Irishness
• Niall Murphy Poetry and Chess
• Kimberley Murray Poetry and Criminality
• Sarah Lavan Sapphically Re-Evaluating Joni Mitchell’s Blue Album
• Lauren Lawler Anne Carson, Louise Gluck and the Persephone Myth
• Catherine McIlduff Barry MacSweeney’s Pearl
• Tara McKay Sounding Clever: Academic Discourse & Poetic Appreciation
• Clair Nolan Sylvia Plath, Victimhood and Jewish Identity
• Susan Nussbaum Translating The Seafarer
• Jessica O’Brien The Metaphysicals and the Moderns
• Cliona O’Connell Ecocriticism: How to Define It and Why You Might Not Want To
• Sean O'Reilly Morrissey and Authenticity
• Emma Ozenbrook Poetry and Insanity
• Antoinette Pierce is working on David Jones’s In Parenthesis
• Lorcan Roddy The Sublime
• Annette Skade Basil Bunting’s Briggflats
• Jan Stokes Elizabeth Bishop’s Sonnet
• Sinead Tierney Sappho: Still on Fire
• Jamie Walsh Philip Larkin and Morrissey
• Siobhan Wilson Seamus Heaney’s North