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Professor Jarlath Killeen

Professor in Victorian English (English)
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Head of School (School Office - English)


Jarlath Killeen was born in County Mayo and educated in Trinity College, Dublin. He has taught at TCD since 2006.
  18th Century literature   19th Century Irish cultural history   Anglo-Irish connections   Children's literature   Gothic Fiction   Gothic Literature   Humanities, General/Other   Irish Gothic   Irish political, intellectual and social history, 1660-1800   Oscar Wilde   Popular Romance and Chick Lit   Religion & Literature   Religion and Literature   Victorian Literature & Culture   Victorian Literature and Culture   Victorian studies, popular fiction
Details Date
Editorial Board of The Wildean 2016
Peer reviewed manuscript submissions for Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Routledge, University of Wales Press, Edinburgh University Press, Manchester University Press, Liverpool University Press, Palgrave, Irish Academic Press, Cork University Press, McFarland, MLA Press, Peter lang, Victorian Studies, Notes and Queries, Irish University Review, Studies in English Literature (SEL), Victorian Periodicals Review
External Examiner, Ph.D., Queen's University, Belfast April-June, 2023
External Examiner, M.Phil. in Popular Literature and Culture, Roehampton University. September 2020-August 2023
External Examiner, PhD thesis. Université Laval, Montreal, Canada. May-June 2015
Editorial Board of the Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies 2006
External Examiner, BA Programme, American College, Merrion Square, Dublin 2 2012
External Examiner, PhD thesis. Curtin University of Technology, Australia October-November
Keynote Speaker: 'Unheard Voices in the Irish Literary Tradition: Stephen Cullen and the Discourses of the Eighteenth-Century Irish Child'. SOFEIR (French Society for Irish Studies) International Conference, 'Unheard Voices: Telling Stories of Empowerment', Paris. 20 March, 2015
Invited Speaker: 'Oscar Wilde in the Fourth Dimension: Ghosts, Geometry, and the Victorian Crisis of Meaning', Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw 3 November 2016
Keynote Speaker. 'Victorian Pulp Fiction'. IV Coloquio Internacional de Literatura Góthica: Lo góthico y su encuentro con la technologia, Universídad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. 6 April, 2011.
Keynote Speaker: 'Changing Identities in The Importance of Being Earnest and Victorian Culture'. Plenary Speaker. The Importance of Being Earnest Conference, Université de Reims, Champagne-Ardenne, France. October 17th, 2015
Keynote Speaker: 'The Irish Protestant Gothic Tradition'. The Church of Ireland Historical Society Conference. Christ Church, Dublin. 7 November, 2015
Plenary Speaker: 'Oscar Wilde, Victorian Ghosts, and the Crisis of Faith'. Irish Network for Gothic Studies. Inaugural Symposium. Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin. 21 January, 2017.
Keynote Speaker: 'Oscar Wilde, The Irish Land Struggle, and Fairy Tale Solutions', Urban and Rural Landscapes: Language, Literature and Culture in Modern Ireland, Högskolan Dalarna, Falun, 7 November 2008 7 November, 2008
Member of the Consultative Panel of FuturesIreland, instituted by the National Economic and Social Development Office and the Department of the Taoiseach. 2007
Keynote Speaker: 'Cleaning Up the Dead: Vampires, Sanitation, and Corpse Culture in Victorian England'. Plenary Speaker, From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria: Readings in 18th and 19th Century British Literature and Culture, University of Warsaw 29 September, 2017.
Participant in the National Strategy for Higher Education in Ireland 2009
Invited Speaker: 'Torture Pornography and the Victorians' and 'The Corpse in Victorian Pulp Fiction'. Invited Speaker, Marii Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland 17th-18th April 2018
Invited Speaker: 'Bram Stoker, Dracula, and the Irish Dimension'. How Sligo Shaped Dracula, Sligo Dracula Society Conference, Canis Major, Clayton Hotel, Sligo 10 November, 2018.
HETAC Evaluation Panellist for Liberal Arts degree, American College, No. 1 Merrion Square, Dublin 2011
Board Member of Irish Fund of Canada 2003
Applicant Reviewer for Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, National University of Ireland 2012
Judge for the Undergraduate Awards May-October 2014
MLitt External Examiner. University of Bedfordshire, Luton. February
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The Oscar Wilde Society (Great Britain) 2014 Present
International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures 2015 Present
British Association of Victorian Studies 2019 Present
Jarlath Killeen, Imagining the Irish Child: Discourses of childhood in Irish Anglican writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2023, 1-296pp, Book, PUBLISHED
Jarlath Killeen and Christina Morin, Irish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2023, vii - 276pp, Book, PUBLISHED
Introduction: Exorcising the Dead, Summoning the Living in, editor(s)Jarlath Killeen and Christina Morin , Irish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2023, pp1 - 26, [Jarlath Killeen and Christina Morin], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Irish Dimension in, editor(s)Jarlath Killeen and Christina Morin , Irish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, 2023, pp174 - 193, [Jarlath Killeen], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Jarlath Killeen, (Oxford Sherlock Holmes), Oxford:, Oxford University Press, 2023, - 1-368, Critical Edition (Book), PUBLISHED
'Stoker, Dracula, and the Critics' in, editor(s)David J. Skal and John Edgar Browning , Dracula, New York, Norton, 2022, pp455 - 469, [Jarlath Killeen], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Jarlath Killeen, Review of Oscar Wilde and the Radical Politics of the Fin de Siècle, by Deaglán Ó Donghaile , Irish University Review, 52, (1), 2022, p156-162 , Review, PUBLISHED
Jarlath Killeen, Review of The Rogue Narrative and Irish Fiction, 1660-1790 , by Joe Lines , 18th Century Fiction, 34, (4), 2022, p499-501 , Review, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
'Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Ireland' in, editor(s)Clive Bloom , The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, pp263 - 280, [Jarlath Killeen], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
'Irish Gothic Fiction' in, editor(s)Liam Harte , The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, pp50 - 66, [Jarlath Killeen], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
  

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Jarlath Killeen, 'Nation of the Damned: Evil Irish Children in 1641'., Gothic Presence., Sӧdertӧrn University, Stockholm, 17th May, 2023, Mattias Pirholt and Claudia Lindén, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Jarlath Killeen, Contemporary Irish Folk Gothic and the Search for Meaning, 16th International Gothic Association Conference, Trinity College Dublin, 29th July, 2022, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Jarlath Killeen, Gothic Ireland Becomes Irish Gothic, Honest Ulsterman, (February), 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Jarlath Killeen, Irish Children's Literature: Oscar Wilde, The Irish Seminar, Dublin, 18th June, 2021, University of Notre-Dame, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Jarlath Killeen, Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales, Children's Literature Summer School, Trinity College Dublin, 23rd July, 2021, School of English, Trinity College Dublin, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Jarlath Killeen, 'Gothic Literature and Its Cultural Impact'. Keynote Lecture. , Congreso Internacional Sobre Novela Gótica. , CEU, Universidad San Pablo, Madrid., 19 February, 2019., 2019, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Jarlath Killeen, 'Understanding Bram Stoker and the Perils of Biography'. Plenary Lecture., The Gothic, School of Culture and Education, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden, 13 February, 2019, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Jarlath Killeen, 'Le Fanu's Carmilla'. Plenary Lecture., Irish Gothic Symposium, School of Culture and Education, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden, , 12 February,, 2019, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Jarlath Killeen, 'Torture Pornography and the Victorians' and 'The Corpse in Victorian Pulp Fiction'. Plenary Lectures. , Victorian Literature Symposium, Marii Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland, 17th-18 April, 2018, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Jarlath Killeen, 'Cleaning Up the Dead: Vampires, Sanitation, and Corpse Culture in Victorian England'. Keynote Lecture., From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria: Readings in 18th and 19th Century British Literature and Culture, University of Warsaw, 29th September, 2017, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED

  

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Award Date
Fellowship of Trinity College 14 April, 2010
IRCHSS Post-Doctoral Award 2002-2004
IRCHSS Post-Graduate Award 1999-2001