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School of English

Dr
Jim
Shanahan

Primary Department
School of English
Role
Academic Staff
Work Area/Key Responsibilities
English
Jim Shanahan
Phone number:
01 700
6043
Campus
All Hallows
Room Number
AHC S222

Academic biography

Jim Shanahan holds a B.A. (Hons) in Modern History and English Literature from the University of Oxford (1997); an M.Phil in Anglo-Irish Literature, Trinity College Dublin (1998); and a Ph.D from TCD (2006). He has published widely on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century fiction, with particular emphasis on Irish historical fiction relating to the 1798 rebellion, and the novels of Charles Lever. He has also contributed articles to the Literary Encyclopedia Online (www.litencyc.com) and to the Cambridge Dictionary of Irish Biography.

Research interests

His research interests include: eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, especially Irish fiction; the interaction between history, memory and fiction; the historical novel; Romanticism; the Gothic; fiction of the 1798 Rebellion; the history of sport.
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