English, University of Galway

Happy Bloomsday! Celebrate in Galway this week with a walking tour, brunch, or visit to Nora Barnacle House Museum. See Galway Civic Trust for details

https://galwaycivictrust.ie/index.php/2026/06/08/bloomsday-in-galway-stories-of-james-joyce-and-his-muse-nora-barnacle/

James Joyce's Dublin Marking Bloomsday with a journey through Joyce's Dublin.

Lovely story of a poem written by our alumna Dr Emily Cullen, which appeared on this year’s Junior Certificate English examination paper.
Emily gained her PhD in English from University of Galway in 2008. Perhaps Lee might study with us in years to come!

Galway Junior Cert pupil’s surprise after his mother's poem – inspired by him – appears in his English paper

Huge congratulations to Dr Andrew Levie, whose viva took place recently. Andrew's PhD was on Ethnogenesis in Spenser’s Faerie Queen: Early Modern, Medieval, and Classical Sources.

I am delighted to have passed my PhD viva last week at the University of Galway. Thanks are due to Daniel Carey and Thomas Herron, my internal and external examiners respectively, for their robust… | Andrew Levie | 21 comments I am delighted to have passed my PhD viva last week at the University of Galway. Thanks are due to Daniel Carey and Thomas Herron, my internal and external examiners respectively, for their robust questions, insight, and advice regarding future directions for my work, and to Marie-Louise Coolahan fo...

Dr Adrian Paterson is part of an expert panel reviewing this year's Women's Prize shortlist for non-fiction authors. In this article in The Conversation, Adrian writes about Artists, Siblings, Visionaries: The Lives and Loves of Gwen and Augustus John by Judith Mackrell.

Women’s prize for non-fiction: powerful biographies, moving histories and creative approaches to health – six experts review the shortlist New perspectives on history, complicated family relationships and a creative approach to health.

The Magna Charta Universitatum Observatory has announced that the 2026 Student Essay Competition is now officially open.

This year’s theme is:
The Humanities and How They Influence Access to and the Experience of Higher Education
Students from universities around the world are invited to reflect on how the humanities shape access to higher education, belonging, academic development, and personal growth.

All information relating to the competition — including participation guidelines, submission details, and the webinar recording — is now available here:

events.magna-charta.org

Dr Frances McCormack's article "Active Learning in a Neuroaffirmative Classroom" was recently published in Information and Learning Sciences. This article describes Dr McCormack's development of her final-year seminar module "Autism Fictions, Autistic Writing," through which she strove to create a neuroaffirmative learning experience. Ultimately, the module design transformied her understanding of active learning and therefore her own teaching practice.

A very interesting read!

Active learning in a neuroaffirmative classroom Purpose. Traditional learning methods and norms may not adequately support, and instead can further marginalise, a neurodivergent population of students. The purpose of this paper is to describe the theory and strategies that underpinned the author’s development of a module on autistic representat...

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Dr Coralline Dupuy was recently invited to Poland to deliver guest lectures about her research project on migrant children, Celtic myths, and Irish Gothic writers. She was invited by Prof. Krystyna Zabawa and Michael Doherty from Ignatianum University in Kraków.

Dr Coralline Dupuy will be returning to beautiful Uniwersytet Ignatianum w Krakowie next month to participate in their 2026 Irish week. She will be speaking about migration in French and Irish YA fiction, Irish vampires, and female agency in Celtic mythology. Coralline has been invited by Ignatianum University, Cracow colleagues Krystyna Zabawa and Michael Doherty.