Prof
Eugene
McNulty
Academic biography
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 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 addition to his role in the School of English, he has been 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). Currently he is the co-Chair of the Irish Humanities Alliance's Working Group on the Legal Humanities, and the co-Chair of the Irish Network for the Legal Humanities.
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:
the conceptualisation of the Law in twentieth-century Irish literature the impact / presence of partition on / in the Irish literary imagination