• Distorted bodies: gender, sexuality and performativity in twentieth-century Italian fantasy literature 

  O'Leary, Martina (University College Cork, 2018)

  Any examination of fantasy literature’s rich use of symbolic subject matter can reveal both the genre’s highly subversive potential, and its capacity to explore concepts generally perceived as off-limits, examples of which ...
• Writers and Fighters: a comparative study of the Irish literary revival (1900 - 1922) with the revolutionary Chinese May Fourth literary era (1915 - 1927) 

  O'Malley-Sutton, Simone (University College Cork, 2019)

  This study elucidates the link between Irish Revival Literature and the Chinese May Fourth cultural and political movement (1917-1923). Within the framework of Colonial and Postcolonial studies, the study provides a ...
• Words to Shape my Name 

  McKenna, Laura (University College Cork, 2019)

  Words to Shape my Name consists of a novel and a critical commentary on the creative process and context of writing it. The novel is a re-imagining of the life of Tony Small, an escaped slave who became the manservant of ...
• Chosen childlessness in Ireland: a qualitative study of women's decision making, biography making and identity management 

  Cronin, Joan (University College Cork, 2019)

  This thesis explores the experiences of women who are childless by choice in Ireland, to gain a greater understanding of the motives that influence the women’s decision making, to examine how others react to that decision, ...
• Hyphenating Ireland and America: examining the construction of contemporary hybrid identities in film and screen media 

  Goff, Loretta (University College Cork, 2019)

  Hyphenation legitimises and makes coherent the unstable and amorphous notion of identity, clarifying “who one is” with shorthand efficiency: Irish-American, Hispanic-American, Anglo-Irish, are some of many identities sutured ...

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