Clíodhna Carney

Clíodhna Carney did her PhD ( The Profane Poetic of the Canterbury Tales) in Trinity College Dublin (2007). She has taught in Trinity College Dublin, the University of Austin at Texas, and the University of Galway. She works on the one hand on Old and Middle English and Early Modern English, with a particular focus on Chaucer, Spenser, and poetics, and on the other on nineteenth and twentieth century literature and aesthetics, in particular on Joyce and on realism. In the last few years she has focused on practice-based research (in particular playwriting and fiction).

Old and Middle English language and literature (with a special focus on Chaucer); Early Modern English literature (with a special focus on Edmund Spenser); medieval poetics and aesthetics; poetry of all periods; poetics; aesthetics; James Joyce; Yeats; realism; 20th century Irish literature in English; creative practice (especially fiction and stageplays).

Clíodhna Carney has taught in Trinity College Dublin, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Galway. She is currently teaching courses in Spenser, Chaucer, Joyce, writing, and poetry. She has considerable experience in teaching Old and Middle English language and literature, Early Modern English literature (including Spenser and Shakespeare), poetry of all periods, poetics, medievall and modern aesthetics, Joyce, Yeats, Poe and Nabokov. More recently she has taught writing, research skills and over the past few years has integrated creative practice (including fiction, poetry and drama) into her scholarly courses as a pedagogic method and a mode of assessment.