Professor Melissa Fegan
Professor
Biography
Melissa Fegan is Professor of Irish and Victorian Literature, and Senior Postgraduate Research Tutor for the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. She is also Programme Leader for the MA Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture.
Teaching and Supervision
Professor Fegan teaches on the BA English Literature, BA English Language and Literature, and MA Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture programmes. Her teaching largely focuses on literature from the nineteenth century to the present day, and she supervises undergraduate dissertations on a wide range of issues. She supervises PhD students working on nineteenth-century literature, Irish literature, Neo-Victorian literature and historical fiction.
Research and Knowledge Exchange
Professor Fegan has published widely on literary representations and cultural memory of the Great Famine in Ireland, and on nineteenth-century Irish literature more broadly. She is currently working on the Famine in post-independence Irish literature, the hotel in Irish fiction, and nationalism in the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Lady Wilde.