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Qualifications She studied at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland for an honours degree in English Literature and graduated from there in 2000. She then moved on to Queen’s University Belfast to complete a Master’s degree in Irish Writing (2001) and a Ph.D. on nineteenth-century Irish writers E. Œ. Somerville and Martin Ross (2004). Research Fields Her main research areas are in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Irish women’s writing; literary production and the socio-cultural representation of women’s texts in Ireland and Britain; and legal, technological and literary theories of authorship. She is currently working on a monograph of E. Œ. Somerville and Martin Ross for publication with Cork University Press (2008), and her most recent journal publications have focussed on issues of law and authorship. Prof Greta Jones Greta Jones is a member of the history department. She has taught at Jordanstown since 1976 and before then was a research associate at the University of Leicester Qualifications Greta Jones has an honours degree in Medieval and Modern History from University College London and a Ph.D from the London School of Economics. Her Ph.D became the book Social Darwinism and English Thought published by Harvester in 1980 and was the key to the award of a Mellon Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania 1982-3. During this time she completed the book Social Hygiene in Twentieth Century Britain ( Croom Helm 1986) Greta also held the Morris Ginsberg Fellowship at the London School of Economics in 1986. This allowed her to finish Science Politics and the Cold War (Routledge 1988). She was visiting fellow at Corpus Christi College Cambridge in 1990. She has been a member of the editorial board of Social History of Medicine published by Oxford University Press and the holder of several grants from the Wellcome Trust for the History of Medicine. Research Fields Greta’s primary research interests are in nineteenth century cultural and intellectual history , particularly Darwinism and in the history of nineteenth and twentieth century science and medicine. She has recently been awarded a grant , in conjunction with University College Dublin, from the Wellcome Trust to set up a centre for the history of medicine in Ireland. This will involve a five year programme of appointments and activities to promote the subject.. Her most recent work in the history of medicine in Ireland is a study of medical migration to and from Ireland 1860-1960. Dr William Kelly Dr Kelly was born in Derry in 1954 and attended St Columb’s College, Trinity College Dublin and the University of Cambridge. He has worked for the Royal Historical Society, and the University of Ulster. Qualifications Ph.D. in History, University of Cambridge B.A. (Hons) in Modern History, Trinity College, Dublin Winner of the Cluff Memorial Prize Research Fields Dr Kelly’s primary research interests are in early modern Irish and British History. Dr Kelly is Managing Editor of the translation of the Commentarius Rinuccinianus, the papal nuncio’s account of his time in Ireland between 1645- 1649 and is one of the key sources for the study of early modern Ireland and Britain and diplomatic relationships with Europe. Dr Kelly also manages the translation of the Historia, another key source for the history of Ireland in the mid-seventeenth century. Both projects are funded by the Department of Arts Sport & Tourism in the Republic of Ireland. As Assistant Director of the Institute of Ulster Scots Studies he is particularly interested in the role of the Scots in Ulster in the seventeenth century. 10
Prof Elmer Kennedy-Andrews Elmer Kennedy-Andrews grew up in Northern Ireland. He studied English at Queen’s University, Belfast, where as an undergraduate he was a Queen’s Scholar, holding both the Porter and Foundation scholarships. He also took his Masters and doctorate at Queen’s. Prior to his appointment to the University of Ulster, he taught in several schools in Northern Ireland and at the University of Thessalonki in Greece and Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco. In 1994 he was made Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Ulster, and in 2004 became Head of the Research Graduate School in the Faculty of Arts. In 2005 he was appointed to a personal chair in English Literature. His main research interest is in modern and contemporary Irish literature in English. Since 1989 he has been Course Director for the PGDip/MA in Irish Literature in English. His undergraduate teaching covers both Irish and American literature, and he has a particular interest in the relationships between the two literatures. Since 1998 he has been in charge of the biennial international Ulster Symposium on Irish poets held at Coleraine, and has edited the proceedings of each symposium for publication in book form, as part of the Ulster Editions & Monographs series published by Colin Smythe Ltd. Publications emanating from symposia so far include: Modern Irish Writers and the Wars (1999), Louis MacNeice and his Influence (1999), The Poetry of Michael Longley (2000), The Poetry of Derek Mahon (2002) and Paul Muldoon: Poetry, Prose, Drama, A Collection of Critical Essays (2006). He is currently preparing volumes on Ciaran Carson and John Montague. Qualifications Ph.D.: ‘American Black Activist Drama in the 1960s’, Queen’s University Belfast M.A:. ‘A Comparison between European and American Absurdist Drama’, Queen’s University Belfast B.A. (Hons) in English Language and Literature, Queen’s University Belfast. Research Fields Contemporary Irish Literature in English American Literature Prof Ullrich Kockel A native of Göttingen, Germany, Ullrich Kockel was appointed Professor of Ethnology and Folk Life at the University of Ulster’s Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages in 2005. In the 1980s, following an earlier career in industry, he held research and teaching appointments at Hochschule Bremen, Leeds Polytechnic, University College Galway, the University of Liverpool and the University of Glasgow. He lectured at the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Irish Studies and the Department of Geography at University College Cork between 1989 and 1999, when he was appointed to a Chair in European Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol, where he remains a Visiting Professor. At the University of Ulster, he is a member of the School of Languages and Literature and was Acting Head of the Arts Faculty’s Research Graduate School in 2006. He is an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences and an active member of national and international scholarly associations in the fields of anthropology, ethnology and folk life. Qualifications He graduated in European Studies (Finance and Accounting) from Leeds Polytechnic and in Business Economics from Hochschule Bremen in 1984. In 1985 he won a PhD studentship at the University of Liverpool’s Faculty of Social and Environmental Studies with a project on culture and economy in the West of Ireland, which he completed in 1988. During the 1980s, he also studied by distance learning for certificates in philosophy, psychology and education, for which he gained distinctions. Research Fields European ethnology, economic anthropology, human ecology, heritage tourism, reflexive traditions, counter-cultural movements, and cultural encounters. He has undertaken fieldwork across Europe, especially in Ireland, Britain, Germany, Finland, Spain and Lithuania, and also has a keen interest in interdisciplinary research and intercultural philosophy. 11
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