Muireann O'Cinneide

Muireann O’Cinneide is a graduate of University College Cork (BA 1998, English & 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, and twentieth centuries, giving undergraduate courses in Victorian literature, literature of the Romantic period, and eighteenth-century novels and poetry. At graduate level she is Course Director for the MA in Culture and Colonialism. Her main research interests are in women’s writing, politics, and colonial and postcolonial literature and theory (especially travel writing). She has published a monograph on aristocratic women’s writing in the Victorian period, and she is currently working on nineteenth-century travel writing and conflict narratives.