Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the field of
- Modern poetry
- 20th century war writing
- Modern Irish literature
- Modernist literature
Public outreach & key achievements
- In Our Time Radio 4 podcasts:
Research students
| PhD title | Northern Irish Poetry of the 1970s |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| PhD title | Seamus Heaney and American Poetry |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| PhD title | Football Hooliganism and the Northern Poet |
Alumni: Where are they now
| PhD title | Genre and Lyric Subjectivity in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry |
| Country | Scotland |
| Current Position | Lecturer, University of Edinburgh; Programme director, MsC in Creative Writing |
| PhD title | Northern Irish Poetry and Theology |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| Current Position | Lecturer, Queen’s University Belfast |
| PhD title | T.S.Eliot and Geoffrey Hill |
| Country | England |
| Current Position | University tutor writer and poet |