Current Postgraduate Students
Current PhD Students
AMACH, Lissia Farida 2007 (supervisor: Professor David Scott) amachf@tcd.ie
Le Regard surréaliste sur la femme. Claude Pichois Award
CANADA-SMITH, Donna 2010 (supervisor: Dr Alyn Stacey) canadadt@tcd.ie
The French Garden and urbanisation in 19th-century Paris. College award
DEVLIN, Amy 2007 (supervisor: Professor Johnnie Gratton) amydevlin1@gmail.com
Photography in contemporary French fiction
GEARY, Elizabeth 2006 (supervisor: Professor David Scott) gearye@tcd.ie
Travel in the writing s of André Gide and Henri Michaux. IRCHSS award
GUBBINS, Sarah 2008 (supervisor: Professor David Scott) gubbinss@tcd.ie
Mid-Century Poetics: the poetry in prose and verse of Nerval and Baudelaire. College Award
KILROY, Robert 2009 (supervisor Professor David Scott) robertkilroy@hotmail.com
Marcel Duchamp: resolving the Word & Image problematic. IRCHSS award
MACLACHAN, Rose 2010 (supervisor Professor Johnnie Gratton) maclachr@tcd.ie
Status of the speaking subject within lesbian life-writing in the work of Nina Bouraoui. Pichois award
McMAHON, Una (supervisor Mr David Parris) Una.McMahon@nuim.ie
English–language Translations of Corneille
Completed PhDs (bold indicates confirmed successful)
BAXTER, Carol 1995
25 Woodleigh Oak, Highfield Road, D6, 4976782/4920420 (h) 40822303 (w)
Women in the Port Royal Community in 17th-century France; 2005
BELL, Colin 1998 (supervisor: Mr David Parris) crjbell@hotmail.com
Pichois award
Unfettering Constraint: deconstruction and interpretation in Georges Perec
Extern: Prof Jean-François Chassay, Montreal; intern: Prof David Scott; 2001
BRENNAN Daria 1993 (supervisor: Prof Roger Little) dmbrenna@tcd.ie
The Representation of Women in French West Indian Writing
BROWN, Warren 1999 (supervisor: Prof David Scott) bharain@btinternet.com
Modernist Typography in Contemporary French Graphic Design
Extern: Prof. Debra Kelly (U. of Westminster); intern: Prof. Johnnie Gratton; 2005
CONNON, Daisy 2004 (supervisor: Prof Johnnie Gratton) dmconnon@tcd.ie
Realism and the Uncanny in the work of Marie NDiaye, Emmanuel Carrère and Eugène Savitzkaya
Extern: Dr Shirley Jordan (QMC London); intern: David Parris; 2008
CONROY, Derval (supervisor: Dr Ruth Whelan) 1995
Adam Loftus award
Ruling women: Gender, Government and Sovereignty in 17th-Century France
Externs: Prof Carolyn Lougee (Stanford); Dr Jane Conroy (NUIG); 2001
ENGLISH, Alan 1996 (supervisor: Prof David Scott) 2000
La Versification verlainienne ou La Prosodie de l’indécidabilité
Extern: Prof Clive Scott (UEA); intern: Mr David Parris; 2000
FURLONG, Sinéad (supervisor: Prof David Scott) 1999 furlonsh@tcd.ie
Women in the Parks of Paris: poainting and writing the female body
Ussher Award 1999; IRCHSS Post-doc 2003-2005
Extern: Prof Michele Hannoosh, Cambridge; intern: Prof Barbara Wright; 2002
JEANNEROD, Dominique 2003 (supervisor: Prof Johnnie Gratton) jeannerd@tcd.ie
The Writings of San Antonio
Extern: Alain Viala (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford); Intern: Mr David Parris; 2006
JEIN, Gillian 2004 (supervisor: Prof David Scott) gjein@tcd.ie
Metropolitan Motion: French Writing in London and New York, 1851-2000
Ussher award
JOHNSTON, Ingrid 19 96 (supervisor: Prof Roger Little) johnstoi@tcd.ie
Points of Passage: the Theme of the Threshold in 20th-century French Poetry
Extern: Professor Peter Bloom (Queen’s, Belfast); intern: Professor David Scott; 2002
KEOGH, Deborah 2001 (supervisor: Mr David Parris) keoghdm@tcd.ie
The Oral Phenomenon of Argot in Late 19th-and early 20th-Century Literary Texts
Extern: Dr Carol Sanders (University of Surrey); intern: Dr Paule Salerno-O’Shea; 2007
KERR, Gregory 2005 (supervisor Professor David Scott) greg.kerr@laposte.net
A Comparative Analysis of the Poetry of Théophile Gautier and Charles Baudelaire
IRCHSS award
Extern: Prof. P. O’Donovan; intern: Prof. Johnnie Gratton; 2010
LARKIN, Aine 2001 (supervisor: Prof David Scott) larkinaine@hotmail.com
Proust and Photography
Pichois award 2001; IRCHSS post-doc award 2009-10
Extern: Professor Clive Scott (UEA); intern: Professor Johnnie Gratton; 2007
LYONS, Zachary 2001 (supervisor: Dr Rachel Hoare) dzlyons@tcd.ie
Thesis title: Legio patois nostra: motivational and attitudinal variables among English learners of French in the Foreign Legion; 2005
MCILVENNY, Kate 2005 (supervisor Professor Johnnie Gratton)
Poetics of the Fetish in Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu
IRCHSS award
Extern: Prof. Eddie Hughes; intern: Prof. David Scott; 2011
McELLIGOTT, Raphael (supervisor: Prof David Scott) 2002
Kinaesthetic Difference: kinesis in some modern poetry and painting
Extern: Prof Dee Reynolds (Manchester); intern: Dr Lilian Alweiss (Philo.); 2002
MONTGOMERY Gerardine 1985 (supervisor: Roger Little)
montgomery@tinet.ie
Extern: Professor Roger Cardinal (Kent); intern: Dr Edward Arnold; 2000
MORAN, Clare (supervisor: Prof Wright) cl_moran@hotmail.com
Self perception in the literary and visual works of Baudelaire, Redon, Michaux and Ensor
Extern; Professor Sonya Stephens (Royal Holloway); intern; Professor David Scott; 2003
NI LOINGSIGH, Aedin 1995 (Supervisor: Roger Little) 2001 niloinga@tcd.ie
Ecritures africaines de l’exil parisien
Extern: Jean-François Durand (Montpellier III) Intern: Mr D. L. Parris; 2001
NOAT-NASH, Anne-Claire 1996 (supervisor: Mr David Parris)
La Verve Rabelaisienne dans le roman québecois et antiallais contemporain
Externs: Professor Michael Cronin (DCU); Professor Lise Gauvin (Montreal); 2003
O’REGAN, Derek 1995 (supervisor: Prof Roger Little)
Thesis title: Intertextuality in the novels of Maryse Condé (Mlitt upgrade to PhD 2001)
Extern: Dr Mary Gallagher, UCD; intern: Professor Johnnie Gratton; 2003
RAFTERY-SKEHAN, Mark 2005 (supervisor Professor David Scott) raftermm@tcd.ie
Deconstructing the Imagination of Language and the Sign: Derrida, Hegel, and Mallarmé
IRCHSS award
Extern: Prof. Dee Reynolds (Manchester); intern: Prof. Johnnie Gratton; 2011
ROGERS, Julie 2001 (supervisor: Mr Parris) julieannerodgers@yahoo.com
French Canadian Novel. A comparative study of Gabrielle Roy and Francine Noel
Extern: Dr Rachel Killick (Leed); intern: Dr Heather Ingman; 2008
SCOTT, Maria 1996 (supervisor: Prof David Scott) 1999
Anamorphic Texts: Stendhal, Baudelaire, Lacan, Derrida
Adam Loftus Award 1996; IRCHSS post-doc award 2000
Extern: Professor Malcolm Bowie (Oxford); intern: Professor Barbara Wright; 1999
Completed Masters (bold capitals of name indicates successful)
BEECHINOR, Stephen 1996 (supervisor: Dr Jim Jackson) 1999
beechins@tcd.ie
Laclos’s Les Liaisons dangereuses
Extern: Prof David Coward (Leeds); Intern: Prof David Scott; no viva
PERREAU, Pascale 1999 (supervisor: Dr E Arnold) pascale_perreau@yahoo.com
Thesis title: Le Fascisme de Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1893-1945)
RAFFERTY, Barry (supervisor: Dr Edward Arnold)
Thesis title: Céline’s Voyage au bout de la nuit
Extern: Dr Philip Dine (NUIG);