Professor Graham Allen
Associate Professor of Modern English, School of English, University College Cork
Research Interests
Literary theory, including: theories of influence and intertextuality; post-structuralism; deconstruction; the theory and philosophy of the university and of teaching.
Romantic literature: the Shelley-Godwin circle, specialising in Mary Shelley; William Godwin; Romantic poetry, novel and literary criticism.
Selected Publications
Ed. The Pupils of the University, parallax, Routledge, 2006.
The Salt Companion to Harold Bloom, co-edited with Roy Sellars, London: SALT, 2007.
Mary Shelley, Critical Issues, London: Palgrave, 2008.
Reader’s Guide to Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein‘, London: 2008.
“Intertextuality,” The Literary Encyclopedia, www.litencyc.com, 2005.
“On Information and the Chance of Teaching” in Formless: Ways In and Out of Form, eds. Patrick Crowley and Paul Hegarty, Bern: Peter Lang, 2005, pp.27-37.
“You are Here: The Time of Teaching” in Language – Text – Bildung/ Sprache – Text – Bildung, Essays in Honour of Beate Dreike, eds. Andreas Sthulmann and Patrick Studer, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2005, pp.233-49.
“Aporia,” The Literary Encyclopedia, 2005.
“Allusion,” The Literary Encyclopedia, 2005.
“Influence,” The Literary Encyclopedia, 2005.
“Blake and Influence” in Alternative Lifestyles and Mysticism in Contemporary Art, ed. René Zechlin, Glucksman, 2006, pp.27-37
“Transparency and Teaching” in Problematizing Global Knowledge: Special Issue, Theory Culture Society, 23: 2-3, March-May 2006, pp.568-570
“What kind of body is speaking here?” in The Pupils of the University, parallax, ed. Graham Allen, Routledge, 2006, pp1-7
“Roland Barthes” in Le dictionnaire des sciences humaines, eds Sylvie Mesure et Patrick Savidan, Presses Universitaires de France – PUF, pp.75-77.
“Godwin, Fénelon and the Disappearing Teacher” in History of European Idea, 33.1, March 2007, pp.9-24
“Preface” in The Salt Companion to Harold Bloom, co-edited with Roy Sellars, London: SALT, 2007, pp.xiii-xxiv
“The Anxiety of Choice, The Western Canon, and the Future of Literature” in Figures of Bloom: The Salt Companion to Harold Bloom, co-edited with Roy Sellars, London: SALT, 2007, pp.52-65
“Spilling the Beans Teaching and Contract Law” in Figures of Law, ed. Gert Hoffmann, Bern: Peter Lang, 2007, pp. 101-111.
“Mary Shelley as Elegiac Poet: The Return and ‘The Choice’” in Romanticism, 13.3 (2007), pp. 219-32.
“‘Unfashioned creatures, but half made up’: Beginning with Mary Shelley’s Spectre” in Angelaki 12.3, 2008.
Awards:
President’s Fund, University College Cork, 1996
IRCHSS Masterclass (co-ordinator) 2004
Research Leadership
Principal Investigator for English Department research project, Making
Books, Shaping Readers
Current Postgraduate Research
Professor Allen currently has 5 Ph.D students working with him. 4 of his
postgraduates have successfully completed a Ph.D in the past 3 years.
Major State Studentship, 1995-8
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