Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the field of
- Literature in English written and published between 1680 and 1830
- Particularly: women’s writing, Jonathan Swift, Byron, Irish writing in English,
- And feminist approaches to literature and culture of this period.
Public outreach & key achievements
- Prof Haslett has delivered 13 public talks in the last 5 years (2013-2018), principally on women’s writing and on the works of Jonathan Swift.
- She has been awarded research funding for her projects on Representations of Female Communities (British Academy), Irish Song (Arts and Humanities Research Council), and Early Irish Fiction (AHRC and IRC). Her first research monograph (Byron’s Don Juan and the Don Juan Legend) won the British Academy
Rose Mary Crawshay award for 1998. - See: www.irishsongproject.qub.ac.uk
Research students
| PhD Title | Byron and the influence of women’s writing |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| PhD Title | Creative Writing PhD: A novel and a study of witchcraft in Ulster, 1660-1720 |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| PhD Title | Creative Writing PhD: A novel and a study of post-apocalyptic fiction by women writers |
| Country | Republic of Ireland |
| PhD Title | Creative Writing PhD: A collection of original poems and an eco-critical reading of the poems of David Morley |
| Country | England |
Alumni: Where are they now
| PhD Title | ‘James Magee (1707–1797) and the Belfast Print Trade, 1771–1781’ |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Current Position | Subject Librarian for the School of HAPP (McClay Library, QUB) |
| PhD Title | 'The Courtesan's Characters: "Scandalous Memoirists" and their fiction, 1788-1830' |
| Country | UK |
| Current Position | Commissioning Editor, Educate.ie Publishers, Dublin |
| PhD Title | 'The Rise of the Female Critic, 1673-1754' |
| Country | Sweden |
| Current Position | English, History and Theory of Knowledge Teacher, Internationella Engelska Gymnasiet Sodermalm |
Discover More
- Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
- School of Arts, English and Languages
- Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies at QUB
- Eighteenth-Century Literature Research Network in Ireland
- Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society