Maire Ni Fhlathuin

Role(s): Lecturer, Academic

Current research

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. The Poetry of British India 1780-1905, a two-volume anthology covering texts produced in and about India by British writers, will be published by Pickering & Chatto in 2011 - see www.pickeringchatto.com/indianpoetry.  I'm also writing articles on the periodical press of Anglo-India, and 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.

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.

UG modules taught

I contribute to core modules at first-year and second-year level, primarily on literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, 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.

Areas of research supervision

Colonial and postcolonial literature (particularly the literature of British India); Romantic women's writing; literature of the nineteenth century.