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Prof. Graham Allen BA (Wales), MA (Sheff), PhD (Sheff)

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Prof. Graham Allen BA (Wales), MA (Sheff), PhD (Sheff)

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Address English

University College Cork

Cork

Ireland

Telephone: +353-21-490-3000
Email:
ei.ccu@nella.g
Title Professor, Vice-Head of College A C S S S (Research)
Address English

O'Rahilly Building

University College Cork

Cork

Ireland

Telephone: +353-21-490-2775
Email:
ei.ccu@nella.g

Biography:

Professor Graham Allen studied at St Davids' College, Lampeter, the University of Wales, between 1982 and 1985 where he gained a 1st Class Honours degree in English. He studied for his MA (1986) in the English Department of the University of Sheffield and went on to successfully complete his PhD there in 1992. He tutored in Sheffield and in the University of Cambridge before becoming a Junior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Dundee (1990 to 1995). He joined the School of English in University College Cork in 1995. Professor Allen has published extensively in the fields of literary and cultural theory and on subjects within Romantic literary studies. Professor Allen is Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the London Graduate School, a member of the Advisory Board of The Oxford Literary Review, a publishing poet and a regular book reviewer for The Sunday Business Post. He is currently Vice-Head of the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences with special responsibility for research within the College.

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