Liam Harte

Biography

After studying English and History at the National University of Ireland, Galway, I took a PhD in English at Trinity College Dublin. My first academic post was in the Department of Irish Studies at St Mary’s University in London, after which I lectured in the English Department at the University of Ulster, before joining the Division of English, American Studies and Creative Writing at Manchester in 2004.

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PhD Supervision: 

Current Students:

Hair, Laura. Shamed Bodies: Reading the Gendered Shame Complex in the Fiction of John McGahern and Edna O''Brien. (AHRC-funded).

Whelan, Mariah. Traumatic Memory in the Contemporary Irish Novel.

Recently Completed:

Bates, Juliet. Home and the Unhomely in the Fiction of John Banville, Graham Swift and Jane Gardam (2016).

Stedman, Jane. A Time of Interregnum: Navigating Nation in Devolutionary Scottish Fiction (2016).

Georgiades, Electra. Trauma, Company and Witnessing in Samuel Beckett''s Postwar Drama, 1952-61 (2014).

Bristow, Daniel. Waking the Read: What Does it Mean to be Post-Joycean? In Reading, Writing and Psychoanalysis (2014).

Haworth, Simon. Places Where a Thought Might Grow: Liminality, Culture and the Troubles in the Poetry of Derek Mahon (2013).

Turiano, Veronica. Reinventing the Real: Hyperreality in the Plays of Martin McDonagh (2013).