Dr Heather Ingman, B.A. (London), Ph.D. (London), Ph.D. (Loughborough)
Adjunct Professor
My main areas of interest for both teaching and research are women’s writing, Irish writing and gender theory. I teach courses relating to twentieth-century women’s writing and Irish women’s writing, both at undergraduate and postgraduate level. I am particularly interested in Irish women’s short stories, the theme of nation and gender in Irish women’s fiction, the mother-daughter relationship in twentieth-century women’s fiction, and in the theme of spirituality in women’s writing. I give a series of lectures to SF on twentieth-century women’s writing. Authors covered include Virginia Woolf, Margaret Drabble, Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson. My Sophister options generally focus on my specific areas of research interest, namely interwar women’s writing and Irish women’s writing. My Sophister option on the theme of nation and gender in Irish women’s fictioncovers such writers as Elizabeth Bowen, Kate O’Brien, Edna O’Brien, Deirdre Madden and Anne Enright. In most years, I give seminars on Irish women’s writing to Irish Studies students, run an option on Irish Women’s Writing for the MPhil in Irish Writing and teach an option on feminist literary theory to Masters students in the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies. My publications include Women’s Fiction Between the Wars: Mothers, Daughters and Writing (Edinburgh University Press, 1998), Mothers and Daughters: A Literary Anthology (Edinburgh University Press, 1999), Women’s Spirituality in the Twentieth Century: an exploration through fiction (Peter Lang, 2004), Twentieth-Century Fiction by Irish Women (Ashgate, 2007), A History of the Irish Short Story (Cambridge University Press, 2009). I published a chapter on the mother-daughter story in Irish novels in Women’s Writing in Western Europe: Gender, Generation and Legacy edited by Adalgisa Giorgio and Julia Waters (Cambridge Scholars, 2007), one on Kate O’Brien in Identity and Cultural Translation: Writing across the Borders of Englishness edited by Ana Gabriela Macedo and Margarida Pereira (Peter Lang, 2006) and one on ‘Religion and the Occult in Women’s Modernism’ in The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Women Writers edited by Maren Linett (Cambridge University Press, 2010).In connection with my research into women’s writing, I participated in a five-year project supported by the British Academy, European Intertexts, studying women’s writing as part of a European fabric. I have published numerous articles on women’s writing in periodicals such as The Year’s Work in English, Irish University Review and Irish Studies Review. I have reviewed for academic journals and regularly give conference papers on aspects of women’s writing. Authors covered include Virginia Woolf, Kate O’Brien, Edna O’Brien, Maeve Brennan, Elizabeth Bowen, Jennifer Johnston and George Egerton. I have recently supervised two Ph.D theses on women’s writing. One was a comparative study of Irish and Italian women writers in the nineteenth-century (jointly supervised with the Italian department), the other investigated women’s travel writing in the inter-war period.
Contact:
Professor Heather Ingman
Room 4026
Arts Building
Trinity College
Dublin 2
Telephone: + 353 1 896 1515
e-mail: ingmanh@tcd.ie