Eugene McNulty
PROF
Eugene McNulty is Professor in English with special interests in Irish literature and theatre history, postcolonial writing, and the intersections between law and cultural production. He is a graduate of the University of Kent (Canterbury), where he was awarded his MA and PhD by the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Research. Before the formation of DCU's School of English he was a member of the English Department in St Patrick's College (2008-2016), and faculty coordinator of the BA Programme. Prior to moving back to Ireland he was a member of the School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies at the University of Portsmouth (2003-2008).
In terms of other strategic roles, Eugene was the Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (2016-20), and the Chair of the Irish Humanities Alliance (2019-20).
In terms of other strategic roles, Eugene was the Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (2016-20), and the Chair of the Irish Humanities Alliance (2019-20).
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Book Chapter
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Eugene McNulty (2024) 'Nationalism' In: Sean O'Casey in Context. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. | |
| 2024 | Eugene McNulty; Ellen Howley (2024) 'Ireland' In: Europe in British Literature and Culture. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. | |
| 2024 | Eugene McNulty (2024) 'Haunted by Justice: the politics of law in Eoin MacNamee’s Blue Trilogy' In: Expressions of Intersectional Justice in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Film and Theatre. Oxford : Peter Lang. | |
| 2024 | Eugene McNulty (2024) 'Law and Literature: Five Key Concepts' In: Law and Literature: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach. Macerata : The University of Macerata Press. | |
| 2023 | Eugene McNulty (2023) 'Before the Law(s): Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman and the passages of' In: Death and the King's Horseman: A Norton Critical Edition. New York : W.W. Norton. | |
| 2022 | McNulty, E. (2022) 'Intimate borders: Brexit and Ireland' In: Brexit and the Migrant Voice: EU Citizens in post-Brexit Literature and Culture. [Link] | |
| 2022 | Eugene McNulty (2022) 'Moral Legibility: Dion Boucicault and the Melodramatic Legal Scene' In: Law and Literature: The Irish Case. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press. | |
| 2018 | Eugene McNulty (2018) 'Once more with feeling: restaging history in the work of Gerald MacNamara' In: Irreverence in Irish Culture. Bern : Peter Lang. | |
| 2018 | Eugene McNulty (2018) 'Law in contemporary Anglophone Literature' In: Law and Literature. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. | |
| 2017 | Eugene McNulty (2017) 'Legal Containment: Ireland as Crime Scene in Gerald Griffin's The Collegians' In: Ruling Words: Perspectives in Law and Literature. Dublin : Raglan Books. | |
| 2016 | Eugene McNulty (2016) ''Exceptional Bodies: Pearse's Drama and the search for the Law beyond the law'' In: Patrick Pearse and the Theatre. Dublin : Four Courts Press. | |
| 2016 | Eugene McNulty (2016) ''Marie Jones and Charabanc: Popular Theatre in / for Northern Ireland'' In: Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance Studies Reader. Dublin : Carysfort Press. | |
| 2015 | Eugene McNulty (2015) ''Words into action: re-hearing Antigone’s claim in The Burial at Thebes'' In: Hearing Heaney. Dublin : Four Courts Press. | |
| 2010 | Eugene McNulty (2010) ''Incommensurate Histories: the Remaindered Irish Bodies of the Great War'' In: Conflict, Nationhood and Corporeality in Modern Literature: Bodies at War. London : Continuum. | |
| 2008 | Eugene McNulty (2008) ''Parody, Metatheatre, and the Postmodern Turn: A Secret history of Irish Drama'' In: Drama and the Postmodern. Amherst : Cambria Press. | |
| 2005 | Eugene McNulty (2005) ''''Draw it not too rigidly: Ulad and the cultural partition debate'' In: Representing Ireland: Past, Present and Future. Sunderland : University of Sunderland Press. | |
| 2000 | Eugene McNulty (2000) '‘Myth, Self and Nation: The case of James Clarence Mangan and Samuel Ferguson’' In: New Voices in Irish Criticism. Dublin : Four Courts Press. |
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Research Interests
As well as being central to my teaching, the areas of theatre studies, Irish writing, postcolonial literatures, and the intersections of law and cultural production also form the core of my research interests. I currently supervise PhD projects in the areas of Irish cultural history, European Theatre traditions, and postcolonial transnationalism – and welcome further proposals for doctoral work in topics related to my research interests.
I am working on two major research projects currently:
I am working on two major research projects currently:
- the conceptualisation of the Law in twentieth-century Irish literature
- the impact / presence of partition on / in the Irish literary imagination