ProfessorFionnuala Dillane

I work predominantly in the field of nineteenth-century British literature and culture; periodical studies, memory studies and gender with a particular expertise on George Eliot and the periodical and newspaper press. I am currently editing the Handbook of Transnational Periodical Research (Brill 2026) with Marianne Van Remoortel (Ghent University)

My other main area of interest concerns the dynamic interplay of memory, genre, affect and narrative. Three collaborative research projects with colleagues in the School of English, Drama and Film, UCD, Newcastle University and University of Iceland draw on these research interests. Publications in this area include a collection of essays co-edited with Naomi McAreavey and Emilie Pine, The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture, Palgrave Macmillan (2016); a co-edited special edition of the journal Slavery and Abolition (37.3, 2016) with Maria Stuart and Fionnghuala Sweeney, republished in 2018 by Routledge; and a collection of essays on Ireland, Iceland and Memory with Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir Iceland-Ireland: Memory, Literature, Culture on the Atlantic Periphery (Brill, 2022).

Current/Recent Leadership and Service Roles:

Advistory Board European Society for Periodical Research (2023-present)

Editorial Board, Journal of Victorian Culture (2020-present)

Editorial Board, George Eliot George Henry Lewes Journal (2022-present)

Academic Director, UCD Writing Centre (2015-present)
Advisory Board Member, Centre for Studies in Memory and Literature, University of Iceland  (2014-present)

Chair, Editorial Board, UCD Press (2022-2025)

President, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (Oct 2022-24)

Advisory Board Member Memory Studies Association (2016-2025)

Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities, UCD (Apr 2017-July 2020)

Editorial Board, UCD Press (2014-2022)

Board Member, UCD Centre for Gender, Feminisms and Sexualities (2017-2020)