SAMPLE OF RESEARCH RECENTLY CARRIED OUT BY POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS IN THE SCHOOL
French and Francophone Studies - PhD
Narrative and Identity in Samuel Beckett's Trilogy
The Effects of Study Abroad on the Variable Marking of Past Time by The Advanced Learner of French. A comparative Analysis of Irish Study Abroad Learners and Instructed Learners
Fictionalization of Self and Other in the Works of Patrick Modiano
Sociology and Psychology of Reading in A la Recherche du Temps Perdu
Representations of 'Otherness' in the 17th-century 'récit de voyage' to the Orient
'L'Ultime Expérience Intime de l'Art chez Charles du Bos ou l'Oratorio Scriptural de la Résonance'
French and Francophone Studies - MA
'The Representation of Violence and the Violence of Representation in the Fiction of Albert Camus
La femme et l'argent dans un choix de romans du dix-huitième siècle
Journal du voleur de Jean Genet: l'étude d'une autobiographie éthique'
L'apprentissage du français langue seconde au Canada: les programmes
d'immersion française et l'effet de l'âge sur les compétences développées
en langue secondaire
La femme dans le cinéma de Jean-Luc Godard
German Studies - PhD
Remembering Violence in the Work of Arnold Zweig (HII scholarship, DAAD scholarship)
The Concept of Generation Genealogy in Post-unification German Literature (HII scholarship, DAAD scholarship)
‘Homo Ludens’Language Games in the Classroom. (Greek Government Scholarship)
Grotesque Ambivalence in the Works of Albert Drach
Person Deixis in German and English (HRCSSI Scholarship)
German Studies -MA
Die Generationsproblematik in Maxim Billers Die Tochter und Harlem Holocaust.
Contrastive Analysis of German and Portuguese Syntax
Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Influence on Second Language Acquistion Theories
A Case Study of the Translation of Intertext in Elfriede Jelinek’s Die Klavierspielerin.
Gustav Freytag’s Die verlorene Handschrift
Hispanic and Lusophone Studies- PhD
Counting on a duke: the historical context of Lope de Vega’s Los pleitos de Ingalaterra and La corona de Hungría
From Portrait to Retrato: post-colonial issues in translation
Three baroque religious epics: themes and comparisons
The English traveller in Spain, 1750–1815
The novels of Isabel Allende
Hispanic and Lusophone Studies-MA
, La masculinidad en La amortajada y ‘La historia de María Griselda’ de María Luisa Bombal
Antonia Flores Álamo, La memoria y la escritura en Señas de identidad de Juan Gotisolo y Escenas de cine mudo de Julio Llamazares
Italian Studies- PhD
The ‘Racconto Fantastico’ in the 20th Century
Music in Dante’s Theory and Practice of Poetry
The ‘Amleto’ of Arrigo Boito and Franco Faccio
The Fantasy for Children: A Vehicle for the Expression of Socio-Political Ideologies in Italian Children’s Literature
A Comparative Study of the Death and Resurrection of the Author in the Works of Sterne, Pirandello, Unamuno, O’ Brien and Calvino
Italian Studies-MLitt
Escape from Fear in Dino Buzzati’s Narrative: A Frommian Reading
Feminist Fictions? The Writings of Dacia Maraini
Villains and Heroes: Neo-Realist Fictions in Italy
The Representation of Women in Pirandello’s Short Stories
Italian Studies-MA
Culture and the People in Le ceneri di Gramsci
Jewish Characters, Their Isolation and the Search for Identity in Bassani
Giuseppe Verdi as a Figurehead for Political, Social and Literary Innovation in 19th-century Italy
From the Commedia dell’arte to Fin de siècle Comedy: da Ponte’s Librettos for Mozart
First-person Narrative in the Fiction of Natalia Ginzburg
Current PhD
Mel Boland (Hispanic and Lusophone)
Paul Cannon (French)
Milica Djurdjevic-Flatley (Hispanic and Lusophone)
Stephen Gallagher (Italian)
Justina Keenan (German)
Anne-Laure Kelly (Hispanic and Lusophone)
Nuala Kenny (Hispanic and Lusophone)
Rania Kosmidou (German)
Peter, Lahiff (Hispanic and Lusophone)
Chiara Lucarelli (Italian)
Domenico Marino (Italian)
Yolanda Melgar Pernais (Hispanic and Lusophone)
Chris Mulhall (Italian)
Michael Murphy (French)
Caitronia Ni Chasaide (French)
Anna O'Driscoll (German)
Laurence Penny
Paloma Peres Valdes (Hispanic and Lusophone)
Danielle Petherbridge (German)
Alessandra Ramos de Oliveira (Hispanic and Lusophone)
Brian Reynolds (Italian)
Maria Ana Rodriguez (Hispanic and Lusophone)
Daphne Seemann (German)
Linda Shortt (German)
Karen Skelly (German)
Philip Smyth (Hispanic and Lusophone)
Andrew Tessier (French)
Jesus Urda (Hispanic and Lusophone)
Ross Woods (Hispanic and Lusophone)
Current MA
Elena Castellari (Second Language Acquisition)
Selena Daly (Italian)
Jennifer Hegarty-Owens (German)
Luciano Passavanti (French)
Benson Poame (French)
Lisa Marie Spierin (French)
Annika Stephan (German)
Current M.Litt
Andrea Cullen (French)
Nicola Giffney (French)
Eilis Healy (French)
Meabh Whelan (French)
Recently Completed
Brian Cooper
Joseph Doyle
Ioanna Exarchou
Sofia Garcia Nespereira
Niamh Jordan
Jonathon Kearney
Deirdre Kelliher )
Dirk Köhler
Doireann Lalor
Abigail Landy
Ruth Lindinger O’Connor
Marianne Meehan
Elizabeth McCullagh
Eoghan McArdle
Suzanne McInerney
Roxanne Paire
Milene Pages
Mariana Saad
Marta Valderama
Barry Whelan
Mary Therese Whitington
