Mark O’Connell B.A. (Dublin), M.Phil (Dublin)
Mark O’Connell studied English and Philosophy for a TSM Degree in Trinity College Dublin, gaining his B.A. in 2003. He went on to receive an M.Phil. in Anglo-Irish Literature, also from TCD, in 2006.
He is currently at work on a Ph.D. thesis on narcissism in the novels of John Banville, and is the recipient of an IRCHSS Government of Ireland Post-Graduate Research Scholarship.
He has previously tutored on the JF courses ‘The Essay’ (2007-2009) and ‘Writing Ireland’ (2007-2009).
In 2009-10, he tutored on the JF ‘Irish Writing’ course.
Journal Articles:
“How to Handle Eternity: Infinity and the Theories of J.W. Dunne in the Fiction of Jorge Luis
Borges and Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman,” Irish Studies Review 17.2 (Summer 2009),
pp.223-237.
“The Weight of Emptiness: Narcissism and the Search for the Missing Twin in John Banville’s
Mefisto and Shroud,” Irish University Review 40.2 (Autumn 2010).
“The Inclusionist: Nicholson Baker’s Art of Preservation,” Critique: Studies in Contemporary
Fiction (forthcoming 2011).
Reviews:
Ireland Through the Looking Glass: Flann O’Brien, Myles na gCopaleen, and Irish
Cultural Debate, Carol Taaffe, Irish Studies Review 17.2 (Summer 2009), pp.259-261.
Flann O’Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-Modernist, Keith Hopper, Irish
Studies Review 17.4 (Winter 2009), pp.553-534.
Contact:
Mark O’Connell
e-mail: oconnem2@tcd.ie