DrCatherine Kilcoyne

Dr Catherine Kilcoyne is a Lecturer in the School of English Drama and Film.  She is Course Convenor of Irish Poetry and Global Diplomacy (ENG32810) as well as Lecturer on How to Read Poetry (ENG10120).  Her research interests include, poetry and poetics as well as ecopoetry and the environmental and blue humanities.  Current projects take account of the prevalence and importance of interactions between the Arts and STEM with regard to river restoration as both practical intervention and cultural engagement and in the context of "Anthropocene" studies.  She has published widely on these matters as well as on individual poets in academic journals including, The Irish University Review and The Irish Studies Review.  A graduate of UCD's Mode One English, she completed an MA at UCC in Gender and Sexuality Studies and returned to UCD to complete an IRC-funded PhD, speicalising in Irish Poetry and spatiality.