Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the field of
- Contemporary Poetry
- Modern Irish and British poetry
- Poetics
- She supervises students undertaking both critical and creative projects in poetry
Public outreach & key achievements
- Dr McConnell was Principal Investigator for 'Listening to Voices: Creative Disruptions with the Hearing Voices
Network' funded by the AHRC under the Connected Communities Programme. - She won the Ink, Sweat and Tears Poetry Pamphlet Competition 2017 and her work has been funded by the Arts Council Northern Ireland
- Beyond the academy, she has given and hosted talks at Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Mountains to Sea/Poetry Now, Happy Days International Beckett Festival, Dublin Writers Festival, Aspects Festival, and on the Seamus Heaney: Five Fables TV series and app.
- She co-edits The Irish Review.
- She has read poetry at Just For One Day – marking the twentieth anniversary of the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement; Belfast Pride, Carafest; and at the Universities of York and Reading.
Research students
| PhD Title | Labour in the poetry of W.B. Yeats |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| PhD Title | The Northern Irish Poetry of the 1960s and 1970s and the Politics of Reception |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Alumni: Where are they now
| PhD Title | If All the World and Love Were Young and “A Body That is Made into A Sign”: Elegy, Translation and Ekphrasis in Anne Carson’s Nox. |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Current Position | Teaching Assistant at Queen’s University, Belfast |
| PhD Title | 'The Breadbasket of Europe: new poems and moving images; Perpetual Speech: Hollis Frampton's Gloria! as Lyric Poem’ |
| Country | Ireland |
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- Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
- School of Arts, English and Languages
- Seamus Heaney Centre