Research Areas

You can check the research profiles of each of our professors, and their corresponding lines of research in the following file Research profiles and lines (.pdf).

    Adaptation Studies

    American literature

    Anglo-American film studies

    Anglo-American popular music

    Anglo-Indian literature

    Anglo-Mediterranean literature

    Applied linguistics to professional and specific discourses

    Bilingualism and second language acquisition

    Canadian Literature

    Cognitive linguistics

    Community and the English novel

    Comparative literature

    Contemporary fiction

    Contrastive lexical semantics

    Corpus linguistics

    Corpus stylistics

    Critical discourse analysis

    Critical stylistics

    Critical Theory

    Diasporic literature and memory

    Early Modern literature and drama

    Ecocriticism: Interdisciplinary study of literature, culture, and nature.

    Ecofeminism

    English Hellenism

    English literature and the visual arts

    English morphosyntax

    Gender studies

    Forensic linguistics

    • Bartley, Leanne

    Historical Linguistics

    (Inter)Cultural Studies

    Irish literature, cinema and culture

    Irish theatre

    Learner corpus-based Second Language Acquisition

    Lexical approaches to literary analysis and translation

    Lexicography and terminology

    Lexicology

    Linguistics and stylistics (synchronic and diachronic)

    Literary and non-literary stylistics

    Literature and Science in the Renaissance

    Literary Criticism

    Literary explorations of philosophical posthumanism

    Literature and translation

    Metaphor and metonymy

    Multimodal stylistics

    Origins of the English novel

    Poetry in English – Poetics

    Postcolonial literature in English

    Pragmatics and communication

    Specialized languages, terminology, and knowledge engineering

    Systemic functional linguistics

    • Bartley, Leanne

    Terminology/ Terminology and Knowledge Engineering

    The Language of Popular Fiction

    Trauma Studies

    Vegan Studies

    Victorian Fiction

    Vulnerability and Disability Studies