Maire Ni Fhlathuin
Lecturer in English literature, Faculty of Arts
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Expertise Summary
BA PhD (NUI) Areas of expertise - 19th century literature and history; postcolonial literatures and theories, especially the literature of British India; crime & sensation fiction.
Teaching
My teaching draws on my research in nineteenth-century and twentieth-century literature, and covers a wide range of material including the Romantic and Victorian periods, the literature and history of India, postcolonial literatures, and crime fiction. I teach students at all levels, from first-year undergraduate to postgraduate.
Areas of research supervision
Colonial and postcolonial literature (particularly the literature of British India); Romantic women's writing; literature of the nineteenth century.
Current PhD students are working on:
- the contemporary Nigerian-Biafran war novel;
- the science fiction of Iain M. Banks;
- the work of Rider Haggard;
- contemporary Malaysian life-writing;
- the Gothic in literature.
Research Interests
My main research interests are in the field of colonial and postcolonial cultures, with particular reference to the literature and history of British India. My current project relates to the development of a colonial literary marketplace in India during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the main work in progress is a monograph, British India and Victorian Culture,to be published by Edinburgh UP. Recent publications include The Poetry of British India 1780-1905 - see www.pickeringchatto.com/indianpoetry. I'm also writing on other aspects of colonial literary culture. Previous publications in this area include work on Rudyard Kipling, the literature of the Indian 'Mutiny', and the history and fiction associated with British campaigns against thugs and dacoits in the first half of the nineteenth century.
I also have an interest in Romantic women's writing more generally; I've written on Emma Roberts and L.E. Landon, and have contributed to the Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period database from Alexander Street Press.
Previous research interests have resulted in publications on Anglo-Irish writing (Oscar Wilde, Patrick Pearse) and postcolonial theory.
I have reviewed mss for publishers and journals in these areas, and am currently a member of the editorial advisory board for Gale's 19th Century UK Periodicals Online collection. I am a member of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, the British Association for Victorian Studies, and the British Association for Romantic Studies.
Teaching Summary
UG modules taught
I contribute to core modules at first-year and second-year level, primarily on literature of the nineteenth century, and colonial / postcolonial literatures. Current and past third-year option modules include material on detective fiction, the literature and history of colonial India, and the sensation novel in the nineteenth century.
PG modules taught
Contributions to team-taught MA modules currently include material on sensation fiction, crime and colonialism, and women's writing of the nineteenth century.
Selected Publications
NI FHLATHUIN, M., ed., 2011. Edition with introduction and notes.. The Poetry of British India: 1780-1905 Pickering and Chatto.
NI FHLATHUIN, M., 2010. Staging Criminality and Colonial Authority: The Execution of Thug Criminals in British India Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film. 27(1), 23-32