Dr. Gearoid O'Flaherty
Gearóid O'Flaherty is an Assistant Professor in the School of English. He holds a B.A. in English Literature and History from University College Dublin and a PhD in English from the University of Kent (Canterbury). He joined the School of English, DCU in 2016. He is the Teaching and Learning Convenor for the School of English, and also the BRelEd/BRE Programme Convenor for the School of English.
Research Interests
His research interests include nineteenth and twentieth century Anglo-Irish literature and cultural studies. He has a particular interest in the influence Irish émigré writers had on the Irish Literary Revival – such as Wilde, Shaw, Joyce and Beckett and how their experiences of exile helped influence their own formation of a national and cultural identity within Ireland, the wider Irish Diaspora and the international literary world. Additional areas of teaching interest include the authors and writings of Greek Tragedy, the 1890’s fin-de sieclé era, Gothic literature and cinema, Victorian periodicals, Modernism, Postcolonial literature, Dystopian Literature and Film.
Teaching Interests
Gearoid O'Flaherty lectures on several different modules including LIT1006 Research Module; LIT1017/LIT1021 Introduction to Fiction: Short Story & Novel/Fictions; LIT1018/LIT1030 Genre: The Tragedy-Comedy Complex/The Tragedy-Comedy Complex; LIT1023/LIT1029 Shakespeare's World/Shakespeare; LIT1035 Gothic; LIT1036 Modernism; LIT1039 Reading Seminar; LIT1069/LIT1070 Modern World Drama/Modern Drama.