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Research Interests

Tina's research specialisms include Irish gothic literature, eighteenth-century Irish print culture and book history, and Irish women's writing, particularly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She supervises Final Year Projects and MA theses on a wide range of related topics, including, for instance, gender politics in contemporary zombie narratives; a reader response approach to Dracula; and the representation of sectarian violence in Northern Irish 'Troubles' fiction. Current PhD projects include studies of the fiction of Sheridan Le Fanu and of the representation of disability in The Wizard of Oz series.

Teaching Interests

Tina teaches widely on the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the School of English, Irish, and Communication. Her current teaching includes:EH4036: Irish Literature 1930-1990EH4053: Augustan and Romantic LiteratureEH4043: Irish Literary RevolutionsEH4038: Study of a Major Author: Sir Walter ScottEH4121: Gothic Literature in Ireland EH6072: Situating Irish Gothic

Biography

Dr. Tina Morin holds a BA from Georgetown University, with a Major in English literature, and a PhD in English from Trinity College Dublin. Before joining UL in 2012, she held an IRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Trinity College Dublin (2010-12) and a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen's University Belfast (2009-10). Prior to that, Tina held a temporary lecturing position in the School of English at University College Cork (2007-09). She is currently the Assistant Dean of Research in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Tina's research interests centre on Romantic-era Irish gothic literature, book history, and Irish women's writing. She is the author of The Gothic Novel in Ireland, c. 1760-1829 (2018) and Charles Robert Maturin and the Haunting of Irish Romantic Fiction (2011). She has also edited, with Jarlath Killeen, Irish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion (2023); with Marguérite Corporaal, Traveling Irishness in the Long Nineteenth Century (2017); and, with Niall Gillespie, Irish Gothics: Genres, Forms, Modes and Traditions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Her current research focuses on the dissemination and circulation of Irish novels published in London by the Minerva Press.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, PhD, Trinity College Dublin

Award Date: 1 Jan 2007

External positions

IRCHSS Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Trinity College Dublin

1 Jan 2010 → …

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University Belfast

1 Sep 2009 → …

Lecturer of Modern English, University College Cork

1 Sep 2007 → …

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