Ellen O'Leary

Dissertation Title: “Consuming Ireland: Fiction and Embodiment (1990-Present)” 
Supervisors: Professor David Dwan, Professor Tara Stubbs

Teaching:
At the University of Oxford, I have been a teaching assistant for Prelims 4: Literature 1900-Present and for Paper 6: “The Good Life: Morality, Film, Literature”. I also co-taught a Masters C-Course on Irish women writers and led a Study Skills course for first year English students at Queens College. I supervised two undergraduate dissertations on Irish drama, and am currently supervising another on Irish fiction and censorship.

Prior to Oxford, I earned my MFA in prose at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. For three years, I taught English 112: Introduction to College Writing, and English 354: Introduction to Fiction Writing,

I am an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA).

Conferences, Seminars, and Awards:
“Claire Keegan's (Re)pasts: Appetite, Autonomy and Temporality”. Melbourne Irish Studies Seminar, University of Melbourne.
“Hostile Hospitality: Provision in Claire Keegan's Short Fiction”. Critical Food Studies Network, University of Oxford.
“Watch What You Eat: The Spectacle of Consumption in Anne Enright’s Early Fiction”. EFACIS Conference, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University

I was accepted for “Imagallamh”, the Keough-Naughton Summer School in Irish Studies run by Notre Dame University. I am grateful to have won a postgraduate bursary from the British Association of Irish Studies, and the Le Baron Russell Briggs Traveling Prize for Continued Literary Studies from Harvard University.

Research interests:

Irish studies, food studies, medical humanities, contemporary fiction, drama and performance, humor studies, creative writing.