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Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Literature in English written and published between 1680 and 1830
• Particularly: women’s writing, Jonathan Swift, Byron, Irish writing in English,
• And feminist approaches to literature and culture of this period.

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Public outreach & key achievements

• Prof Haslett has delivered 13 public talks in the last 5 years (2013-2018), principally on women’s writing and on the works of Jonathan Swift.
• She has been awarded research funding for her projects on Representations of Female Communities (British Academy), Irish Song (Arts and Humanities Research Council), and Early Irish Fiction (AHRC and IRC). Her first research monograph (Byron’s Don Juan and the Don Juan Legend) won the British Academy
  Rose Mary Crawshay award for 1998.
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Research students

PhD Title	Byron and the influence of women’s writing
Country	Northern Ireland
PhD Title	Creative Writing PhD: A novel and a study of witchcraft in Ulster, 1660-1720
Country	Northern Ireland
PhD Title	Creative Writing PhD: A novel and a study of post-apocalyptic fiction by women writers
Country	Republic of Ireland
PhD Title	Creative Writing PhD: A collection of original poems and an eco-critical reading of the poems of David Morley
Country	England

 

Alumni: Where are they now

PhD Title	‘James Magee (1707–1797) and the Belfast Print Trade, 1771–1781’
Country	United Kingdom
Current Position	Subject Librarian for the School of HAPP (McClay Library, QUB)
PhD Title	'The Courtesan's Characters: "Scandalous Memoirists" and their fiction, 1788-1830'
Country	UK
Current Position	Commissioning Editor, Educate.ie Publishers, Dublin
PhD Title	'The Rise of the Female Critic, 1673-1754'
Country	Sweden
Current Position	English, History and Theory of Knowledge Teacher, Internationella Engelska Gymnasiet Sodermalm

 

 

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• Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
• School of Arts, English and Languages
• Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies at QUB