Faculty
DR. KIT FRYATT is a Lecturer in the English Department, Mater Dei Institute.
Research Interests: Twentieth-century and contemporary British and Irish poetry, allegorical poetry and theories of allegory, neo-modernism and avant-garde poetics, small press publishing.
Selected Teaching: Donne, Herbert, Aemilia Lanyer, Milton, Marvell, Rochester, Swift, Johnson, Blake, Coleridge, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Hopkins, Hardy, Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Kavanagh, MacNeice, Larkin, Heaney, McGuckian, Muldoon.
Recent Relevant Publications: ‘ “Banyan Riot of Dialectic”: Louis MacNeice’s India’ in Ireland and India: Colonies Culture and Colonialism, eds Tadhg Foley and Maureen O’Connor (Dublin: Four Courts, 2006).
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ireland-India-Colonies-Culture-Empire/dp/071652838X/ref=sr_1_2/202-4737213-6959816?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192109236&sr=1-2
‘ “Mind Spewed”: Abjection in Austin Clarke’s Mnemosyne Lay in Dust’, in Australasian Journal of Irish Studies (Spring 2007).
‘On Dream Song #1’, in After Thirty Falls: New Essays and Reflections on John Berryman, eds Philip Coleman and Philip MacGowan (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007).
‘Norms and Forms: Ten Years of the British & Irish Poets’ Listserv’ in Poetry and Public Language eds Tony Lopez and Anthony Caleshu (Exeter: Shearsman, 2007).
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Poetry-Public-Language-Tony-Lopez/dp/1905700644/ref=sr_1_1/202-4737213-6959816?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192109114&sr=8-1'
"AW.DAH": An Allegorical Reading of Maurice Scully's Things That Happen,' POST: A Review of Poetry Studies 1 (Summer 2009).
She has also published poetry in The SHoP, Poetry Ireland Review, Cyphers, Famous Reporter and the European English Messenger, and co-organises the Wurm im Apfel series of poetry readings in Dublin.
Forthcoming publications include articles on Brian Coffey, Austin Clarke and Pearse Hutchinson, and a monograph on Clarke for the Aberdeen Introductions series.
DR. MICHAEL HINDS is Head of Humanities and Head of English, Mater Dei Institute. Prior to taking up his post at Mater Dei in 2000, he taught at Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, Queens University Belfast, International Christian University (Tokyo) and The University of Tokyo.
Research Interests: Modern American Poetry (Randall Jarrell and Contemporaries), The American Poetry Book, Ekphrasis, Classical Influences on Contemporary Poetry & Poetics (Sappho, Catullus, Ovid), Rock Music (Pixies, Beach Boys, whatever). Eager to enable research and facilitate teaching exchanges in any of these areas.
Poetry He is Currently Teaching: Dickinson, Whitman, Frost, Bradstreet, Marianne Moore, Pound, Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens, Robert Lowell, Plath, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Ovid.
Relevant Recent Publications: The Irish Reader: Essays for John Devitt, co-edited with Margaret Kelleher and Peter Denman, Otior: Dublin, 2007. "Micromorphoses: The Sack of Ovid".
http://www.materdei.ie/news/article.php?articleid=20;
"Allusions, etc.: John Berryman, Catullus and Sappho", in After Thirty Falls: Critical Essays on John Berryman, eds Philip Coleman and Philip McGowan: New York: Rodopi, 2007.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_/203-2422624-6051147?initialSearch=1&url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=after+thirty+falls&Go.x=10&Go.y=11;
“Thoreau’s Hut” in Huts Douglas Hyde Gallery , Dublin: March 2005
http://www.douglashydegallery.com/pdf/PUBLICATIONS.pdf;
Rebound: The American Poetry Book, co-edited with Stephen Matterson, Rodopi: Amsterdam/New York, September 2004. “Introduction” and “Randall Jarrell’s Book of the Dead”
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_/203-2422624-6051147?initialSearch=1&url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=rebound&Go.x=6&Go.y=10;
“Randall Jarrell and Donatello’s David”, in Letteratura d’America, University of Rome Press, 2004; "Nor Is He Out Of It: Ciaran Carson in the Wars", an essay on the recent poetry of Ciaran Carson, Metre, February 2004; "Like a Hat-Check Clerk in an Ice-Rink": An Interview with Ciaran Carson" in Op.Cit. no.7, 2004. He is mustering his energy for a monograph.
DR. PAULA MURPHY is a lecturer in the English Department in Mater Dei Institute. Prior to taking up this post in Mater Dei in 2007, Paula was a lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature in Mary Immaculate College (University of Limerick) and tutor with Oscail Distance Learning Education. Paula is a board member of the NCFIC: National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies, based in IT Tallaght and a member of the MIC Irish Studies Centre and IASIL: International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures. She is an associate editor of The Irish Book Review and Kritikos: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal of Postmodernism.
Research Interests: Contemporary Irish Literature and Film, Literary Theory, particularly psychoanalysis, deconstruction and postmodernism. Paula has already graduated 11 taught MA students in English and is currently supervising 5 PhD students (2 co-supervised), and welcomes research proposals on these areas.
Poetry She is Currently Teaching: Seamus Heaney: The Cure at Troy and The Burial at Thebes.
Relevant Recent Publications: Relevant Recent Publications: New Voices in Irish Literary Criticism: Ireland in Theory. Co-edited with Cathy McGlynn. New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2007;
http://www.amazon.co.uk/New-Voices-Irish-Literary-Criticism/dp/0773453636/ref=sr_1_1/202-4773863-6671806?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192098706&sr=1-1
‘Spec(tac)ular Society: French Theory Interpreting Globalisation’ in France and the Struggle against Globalisation. Edited by Eamon Maher. New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2007, pp. 79-93;
http://www.amazon.co.uk/France-Mondialisation-Struggle-Against-Globalization/dp/0773453709/ref=sr_1_4/202-4773863-6671806?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192098803&sr=1-4‘
"Trinities of Transition: Catholicism in the Novels and Plays of Dermot Bolger’ in Irish and Catholic? Perspectives on Identity. Edited by Eamon Maher and John Littleton. Dublin: Columba Press, 2006, pp. 178-194.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Irish-Catholic-Towards-Understanding-Identity/dp/1856075389/ref=sr_1_3/202-4773863-6671806?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192098803&sr=1-3
‘‘Wayward Girls and Fallen Women’: Negotiating Fact and Fiction in the Magdalen Laundries’ in Single Motherhood in 20th-Century Ireland: Cultural, Historical and Social Essays. Edited by Maria Cinta Ramblado-Minero and Maria Auxiliadora Pérez-Vides. New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006, pp. 147-161;
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Single-Motherhood-20th-Century-Ireland/dp/077345621X/ref=sr_1_1/202-4773863-6671806?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192098891&sr=1-1
‘Mind Over Matter?: Lacanian Truth and Literary Meaning’, in English Studies Forum, Vol. 2, No. 2., 2006; ‘Jacques, Jacques and Jacks: The Shifting Symbolic in Derrida and Lacan’, in Textual Practice, Vol. 19, Issue 4, pp. 509-527, 2005;
DR. KEVIN WILLIAMS is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, Mater Dei Institute.
Recent books include Education: the Voice of Michael Oakeshott (Exeter, UK/Charlottesville, VA, Imprint Academic)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Education-Michael-Oakeshott-British-Idealist/dp/1845400550;
Faith and the Nation: Religion, Culture and Schooling in Ireland (Dublin: Dominican Publications, 2005)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Faith-Nation-Kevin-Williams/dp/187155294X;
Why Teach Foreign Languages in Schools: A philosophical response to curriculum policy (Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain/Institute of Education, University of London, 2000)
;Words Alone: The Teaching and Usage of English in Contemporary Ireland (University College Dublin Press, 2000). Joint editor.
His poetic interests include French nineteenth century poetry, the work of Rilke and the twentieth century chanson, especially the work of Brassens. On a theoretical level he is interested in the relationship between worldviews, especially religious beliefs, and poetic expression and has addressed the issue in a chapter entitled 'Art, Life and the Study of Literature' in his book on Michael Oakeshott and in other recent and current work.
DR.IAN LEASK is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the Mater Dei Institute, with research and teaching interests in ancient philosophy, Continental philosophy and the history of philosophy. His wide variety of publications includes work on the aesthetics of Plato, Burke and Schelling.
