Dr Gillian Groszewski, B.A. (TCD), PG Dip. Ed. (TCD), M. Phil (TCD), D. Phil. (TCD)
My teaching and research is mostly American and British poetry and prose of the nineteenth and twentieth century. In 2012, I completed my Ph. D. thesis which considered the influence of four American writers – Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Rachel Carson and Sylvia Plath – on the work of British poet Ted Hughes.
At undergraduate level, I teach on the Introduction to Poetry, Twentieth-Century US Literature and American Genres courses as well as some sophister options on poetry. At postgraduate level, I have taught on the M. Phil in Comparative Literature and the M. Phil in Literatures of the Americas.
I am currently working on a book project that theorizes literary friendships, specifically considering the friendship between Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney.
I am co-convenor of the School of English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series and am a member of the Irish Association of American Studies. I am also on the advisory editorial board of the peer-reviewed Ted Hughes Society Journal.
Forthcoming publications include: ‘“I fear a Man of frugal Speech”: Ted Hughes and Emily Dickinson’ in Ted Hughes: from Cambridge to Collected eds. Terry Gifford, Neil Roberts and Mark Wormald (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and ‘Reading Ted Hughes through Structuralisms’ in New Macmillan Casebook: Ted Hughes ed. Terry Gifford (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).