Muireann O'Cinneide

Muireann OCinneide is a graduate of University College Cork (BA 1998, English amp; Latin) and the University of Oxford (Lady Margaret Hall: M.Phil. in Victorian Literature 2000, D.Phil. 2003). She teaches literature of the eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, giving undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Victorian literature, colonial and postcolonial literatures, literature of the Romantic period, eighteenth-century novels and poetry, and science fictionspeculative fiction. Her main research interests are in colonial and postcolonial literature and theory (especially travel writing), womens writing, and electoral politics in fiction. She has published a monograph onaristocratic womens writing in the Victorian period. She is currently working on nineteenth-century travel writing and conflict narratives; and on literatures of mobility and transport.

19th-century literature; research specialisms in colonial amp; postcolonial writing, particularly travel writing; womens writing; electoral politics and literature. I have published a monograph on aristocratic womens writing in the mid-nineteenth century as well as various articles, edited collections, and textual editions. I am currently working on nineteenth-century travel writing and conflict narratives; and on literatures of mobility and transport.

Literature of the eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, particularly Victorian literature;colonial and postcolonial literatures; and womens writing. Has also taught modules onliterature of the Romantic period, eighteenth-century novels and poetry,Empire and Crime,and science fictionspeculative fiction.