Dr. Tina O’Toole
Responsibilities
- Lecturer in English
- Course Director: BA in New Media and English
Academic Background
- Graduate of UCD (BA, MA) and UCC (PhD).
- 1999-2002: Project Researcher, Women in Irish Society Project at UCC (funded under PRTLI 1; see www.ucc.ie/wisp).
- 2001: Women’s Studies Fellow, University of Ottawa.
- 2002-3: Government of Ireland (IRCHSS) Post-Doctoral Fellow.
- 2003-4: Irish Studies Fellow, Queen’s University Belfast.
- 2004: Lecturer in English Literature, University of Limerick.
- 2005-2008: Assistant Dean, Academic Affairs, Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences.
- 2006-2009: Section Leader, English.
- 2009-present: Course Director: BA New Media & English
Research Interests
Tina O’Toole specialises in Irish literature and cultural studies predominantly in the areas of women’s literature and autobiographical writing, feminist theory and activism, and migrant and transnational literatures. She has supervised graduate theses on Irish, British and Canadian literature, as well as on Irish film and cultural studies and she welcomes queries from prospective research students. Currently, she is supervising doctoral projects on the following topics:
- Gender and identity in Irish women’s emigrant narratives
- Intercultural identities in contemporary Irish writing
- The literature and life-writing of the Irish navvy
Publications
Books
The Irish New Woman forthcoming Palgrave Macmillan.
Irish Literature: Feminist Perspectives. Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2008, co-edited with Patricia Coughlan.
The Dictionary of Munster Women Writers. Cork: Cork University Press, 2005; see also www.munsterwomen.ie
Documenting Irish Feminisms: The Second Wave. Dublin: Woodfield Press, 2005, co-authored with Linda Connolly.
Journal special issues
Irish Migrancies. Special issue of Éire-Ireland Journal of Irish Studies forthcoming Spring 2012, co-edited with Piaras Mac Éinrí.
Memory, Memoir and Migration in Irish Writing. Special issue of The Irish Review 44 (2011), co-edited with Jason King.
Recent articles
“Adrienne Rich’s ‘On Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence’”. Mobilising Classics: Reading Radical Writing in Ireland. Ed. Orla O’Donovan and Fiona Dukelow. Manchester University Press, 2010. 157-174.
“Unregenerate Spirits: The Counter-Cultural Experiments of George Egerton and Elizabeth Bowen”. Irish Women Writers: New Critical Perspectives. Ed. Hedwig Schwall, Elke D’hoker and Raphael Ingelbien. Peter Lang, 2010. 200-217.
“‘Nomadic Subjects’ in Katherine Cecil Thurston’s Max”. Irish Literature: Feminist Perspectives. Ed. Patricia Coughlan & Tina O’Toole. Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2008. 79-98.
“Angels and Monsters: Embodiment and Desire in Eva Trout”. Elizabeth Bowen. Irish Writers in Their Time Series. Ed. Eibhear Walshe. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2008. 162-178.
“Ireland: The Terra Incognita of the New Woman Project”. Out of Context: Irish Nineteenth-Century Women’s Prose. Ed. Heidi Hansson. Cork: Cork University Press, 2007. 125-141.
“The New Woman and the Boy in fin de siècle Irish Fiction”. New Voices in Irish Criticism 5. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005. 129-137.