Dr John Brannigan BA, MA, PhD
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Biography:
John Brannigan joined the Department of English in UCD in 2002. Before that, he taught at the University of Luton between 1993 and 1999, studied as a research fellow in the Institute of Irish Studies at Queens University in Belfast in 1999-2000, and taught at Queens and at Trinity College Dublin from 2000 to 2002. He was educated in Thames Polytechnic, London (now University of Greenwich) (BA 1991), University College Dublin (MA 1992), and the University of Luton (PhD 1996). He has published books and articles on a wide range of texts and issues in contemporary literary studies, especially on postwar English literature, post-1940s Irish writing, and contemporary literary theories. He was associate editor of the Years Work in English Studies from 2000-2007, and is currently the editor of the Irish University Review. |
Research Interests
| Twentieth-century British and Irish writing, especially since the 1940s. Other interests include postcolonial writing and contemporary literary theories. Current projects include a critical history of the literature of the British Isles in the twentieth century. |
Research Projects
| Sponsor : University College Dublin (UCD) Title : Reconceiving the British Isles Start Date / End Date : 03-AUG-09 / 31-JAN-11 |
Books
| John Brannigan; (2009) Race in Modern Irish Literature and Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Details] |
| Brannigan, John; (2005) Pat Barker. Manchester: MUP. [Details] |
| Brannigan, J.; (2002) Orwell to the Present: Literature in England, 1945-2000. : Palgrave. [Details] |
| Brannigan, J.; (2002) Brendan Behan: Cultural Nationalism and the Revisionist Writer. : Four Courts Press. [Details] |
| Brannigan, J.; (2002) Literature, Culture and Society in Postwar England, 1945-1965. : Edwin Mellen Press. [Details] |
Book Chapters
| John Brannigan; (2008) 'The Twentieth Century, 1939-2004' In: English Literature in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Details] |
| Brannigan, John; (2006) 'Form and Ethics in the Comedies of Brendan Behan' In: Lukchurst, M (eds). A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama. Oxford: Blackwell. [Details] |
| Brannigan, John; (2005) 'The Small World of Kelly Brown: Home and Dereliction in Union Street' In: Monteith, S., Margaretta Jolly Nahem Yousaf and Ronald Paul (eds). Critical Perspectives on Pat Barker. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. [Details] |
| Brannigan, John; (2005) 'Northern Irish Fiction: Provisionals and Pataphysicians' In: English, J (eds). A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction. Oxford: Blackwell. [Details] |
| Brannigan, J.; (2003) 'The Battle for the GPO: Literary Revisionism in Roddy Doyles A Star Called Henry and Jamie ONeills At Swim, Two Boys, ' In: ed. Munira H. Mutran and Laura P.Z. Izarra (Sao Paulo: Universidade de Sao Paulo, 2003) (eds). Kaleidoscopic Views of Ireland. [Details] |
| Brannigan, J.; (2003) 'No Home of One's Own: Elizabeth Taylor's At Mrs Lippincote's'' In: Jane Dowson (eds). Women¿s Writing 1945-1960: After the Deluge. *: Palgrave. [Details] | |||||||||
| Brannigan, J.; (2002) 'History and the Hauntological Imagination in Pat Barkers Regeneration Trilogy' In: ed. Rod Mengham, Philip Tew and Richard J. Lane (forthcoming - Polity Press, 2002: in press) (eds). Contemporary British Fiction. [Details] | |||||||||
| Brannigan, J.; (2001) 'On Englands Doorstep: Colonialism, Nationalism and Carceral Liminality in Brendan Behans Borstal Boy' In: ed. Graeme Harper (Continuum, 2001) (eds). Colonial and Postcolonial Incarceration. [Details] | |||||||||
| Brannigan, J.; (2001) 'New Historicism: an introduction and Cultural Materialism: an introduction' In: ed. Julian Wolfreys (Edinburgh University Press, 2001), 169-84; 185-99 (eds). Introducing Literary Theories: A Guide and Glossary. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Details] | |||||||||
| Brannigan, J.; (1999) 'New Historicism, an introduction' In: Julian Wolfreys (eds). Literary Theories: A Reader. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Details] | |||||||||
| Brannigan, J.; (1999) ''We have Nothing to do with Literature': Jacques Derrida and Surrealist Writing' In: John Brannigan, Ruth Robbins and Julian Wolfreys (eds). The French Connections of Jacques Derrida. *: SUNY. [Details] | |||||||||
| Brannigan, J.; (1998) 'Joyce will Attend: The Joyce Tour of Postwar Literature' In: John Brannigan, Geoff Ward and Julian Wolfreys (eds). Re: Joyce - Text, Culture, Politics. *: Macmillan. [Details] | |||||||||
| Brannigan, J.; (1996) 'Power and its Representation: A New Historicist Reading of Richard Jefferies' 'Snowed Up'' In: William Baker and Julian Wolfreys (eds). Literary Theories: A Case Study in Critical Performance. *: Macmillan. [Details] | |||||||||
| Brannigan, J.; (1996) 'Writing Determination: Jacques Derrida and Reading Death in(to) Irish National Identity' In: John Brannigan, Ruth Robbins and Julian Wolfreys (eds). Applying: To Derrida. *: Macmillan. [Details] | |||||||||
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Edited Books
| John Brannigan, Ruth Robbins, Julian Wolfreys (Ed.). (1999) The French Connections of Jacques Derrida. New York: SUNY. [Details] |
| John Brannigan, Geoff Ward, Julian Wolfreys (Ed.). (1998) Re: Joyce - Text, Culture, Politics. Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan. [Details] |
| John Brannigan, Ruth Robbins, Julian Wolfreys (Ed.). (1996) Applying: To Derrida. Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
| John Brannigan; (2008) ''Ireland, and black!': Minstrelsy, Racism and Black Cultural Production in 1970s Ireland'. Textual Practice, 22 (2):229-248. [Details] |
| Brannigan, John; (2005) 'An Interview with Pat Barker'. Contemporary Literature, 46 (3):367-392. [Details] |
| Brannigan, John; (2004) 'Race, Cosmopolitanism, and Modernity: Irish Writing and Culture in the Late Nineteen Fifties'. Irish University Review, 34 (2):332-350. [Details] |
| Brannigan, John; (2003) 'Deconstruction, Politics and the Exile: Reading Julian Wolfreys' 'Eternity and a Day''. Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, 4 (2):110-119. [Details] |
| Brannigan, John; (2003) 'In Pursuit of the English: Postcolonial Writers in England, 1945-1965'. New Literatures Review, 39 :61-74. [Details] |
| Brannigan, J.; (2002) 'Belated Behan: Brendan Behan and the Cultural Politics of Memory'. Eire-Ireland, 37 (3-4):39-52. [Details] | |||||||||
| Brannigan, J.; (2001) 'The Storyteller: Narrative Authority and Cultural Nationalism in Brendan Behans Short Fiction'. Jnt: Journal of Narrative Theory, 31 (3):283-298. [Details] | |||||||||
| Brannigan, J.; (2000) 'The Regions Caesar Never Knew: Cultural Nationalism and the Caribbean Literary Renaissance in England'. Jouvert, 5 (1). [Details] | |||||||||
| Brannigan, J.; (2000) 'A Literature of Farewell? The Condition of England in Contemporary Literature'. Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, 2 (1):87-100. [Details] | |||||||||
| Brannigan, J.; (1998) ''A Particular Vice of That People': Giraldus Cambrensis and the Discourse of English Colonialism'. Irish Studies Review, 6 (2):121-130. [Details] | |||||||||
| Brannigan, J.; (1996) ''Historically Informed and Obscene': Brendan Behan and the Politics of Comedy'. Imprimatur, 2 (1):37-42. [Details] | |||||||||
| Brannigan, J.; (1996) 'An Historical Accident: National Identity in the Writings of Brendan Behan'. Irish Studies Review, 13 :26-29. [Details] | |||||||||
| Brannigan, J.; (1995) ''And may there be no moaning of the bar': Cultural Materialism and Reading Dissidence in Tennyson'. Imprimatur, 1 (1):3-10. [Details] | |||||||||
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Electronic Publication
Brannigan, J., Connolly, C., Entwistle, A., Gardiner, M., Groom, N., Longley, E., Mackay, P., Wolfreys, J.; (2011) Reconceiving the British Isles: The Literature of the Archipelago. Dublin: Electronic Publication  [Details] |
Associations
| Association: International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, Function/Role: Member |
| Association: Modern Language Association, Function/Role: Member |
| Association: Modernist Studies Association, Function/Role: Member |
Other Activities
| Edited Books and Journals: Special Issue: John McGahern, Irish University Review Vol.35, No.1 (Spring 2005) Associate Editor, The Year's Work in English Studies (Oxford University Press), with responsibility for Chapter 14, ‘Modern Literature', 2000-2007. The French Connections of Jacques Derrida, co-edited with Ruth Robbins and Julian Wolfreys (SUNY, 1999) Re: Joyce - Text, Culture, Politics, co-edited with Julian Wolfreys and Geoff Ward (Macmillan, 1998) Applying: To Derrida, co-edited with Julian Wolfreys and Ruth Robbins (Macmillan, 1996) Co-editor with Julian Wolfreys, John Moore and Ruth Robbins of Imprimatur: A Journal of Criticism and Theory (University of Luton), 1995-1997. |
Teaching Interests
| I teach lecture modules at undergraduate level on modern literature and critical theory, and seminar modules on the modernist novel and the literature of the second world war. I teach a module on the MA in Modernity, Literature and Culture on the metropolis in modernist and postmodernist writing. At PhD level, I supervise several research projects currently on modern Irish and English writing, and contemporary critical theories. |
Recent Postgraduates
Modules Taught
| 200900 ENG20400 English: Critical Theory |
| 200900 ENG30850 English: War Stories: British Fictions |
| 200900 ENG40790 English: Metropolis: Modernism & After |
| 200900 ENG30610 English: The Modernist Novel |
| 200900 ENG40330 English: Introduction to Literary Research Methods |