Newcastle University

Roles and Responsibilities

As the School's International Officer and Exchange Coordinator, I promote opportunities for Newcastle students to take a semester abroad as part of their degree and I work to improve the experience of international exchange students at Newcastle.

Qualifications

BA (Hons) English Literature - UCL
MPhil - University of Oxford
DPhil - University of Oxford

Memberships

British Association for Romantic Studies,
British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Research Interests

British and Scottish Romanticism, with a particular focus on national identity, the novel, the figure of the poet, imagined literary ancestries in eighteenth-century and Romantic poetry, journeys of the imagination and the treatment of other worlds from Homer, Virgil, and Dante to Byron, Shelley, and Keats, utopianism, visual culture, the role of parodies in canon-making, and the burgeoning of the theatre, periodicals, and short stories in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.    

Current Work

My monograph, Hogg's Kaleidoscopic Art (forthcoming with OUP in 2014), offers a critical re-evaluation of James Hogg's distinctive contribution to Romantic poetry, drama, and fiction, tracing his engagement with major predecessors such as Spenser, Shakespeare, and Burns, and an eighteenth-century legacy of re-imagined cultural genealogies, as well as contemporaries who included Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Baillie, Byron, and Keats. 

My new project, Journeys of the Imagination in Romantic Poetry, examines the ways in which poets such as Coleridge, Shelley, Hogg, Keats, and Byron used imagined other-world spaces to interrogate and explore the socio-political and artistic concerns of their day.  

Undergraduate Teaching

SEL1004 Introduction to Literary Studies II

SEL2208 Independent Research Project 

SEL2203 Revolutionary Britain, 1789-1832 (Module leader)

SEL3340 Journeys of the Imagination in Romantic Poetry (Module leader)

SEL3364 Independent Essay 

SEL3362 Dissertation in English Literature 

Postgraduate Teaching

I welcome research proposals from prospective research students on any area of eighteenth-century and Romantic literature - particularly fiction and poetry.  I supervise and teach on the MLitt research degree and the taught MA in English Literature 1500-1900, which includes the following modules: 

SEL8187 Reading the Past I

SEL8188 Reading the Past II 

SEL8341 Place and Pilgrimage 

SEL8047 Dissertation 

• O'Halloran M. Hogg and the Theatre. In: Duncan, I., Mack, D.S, ed. The Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012, pp.105-112.
• O'Halloran M. 'Simple Bards, unbroke by rules of Art': The Poetic Self-Fashioning of Burns and Hogg. In: Stafford, F., Sergeant, D, ed. Burns and Other Poets. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
• O'Halloran M. National Discourse or Discord? Transformations of The Family Legend by Baillie, Scott, and Hogg. In: Alker, S; Nelson, HF, ed. James Hogg and the Literary Marketplace: Scottish Romanticism and the Working-Class Author. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009, pp.43-55.
• O'Halloran M. 'Circling the pales of heaven': Hogg and Otherworld Journeys from Dante to Byron. In: Rubenstein, J; Hughes, G; O'Halloran, M, ed. Midsummer Night Dreams and Related Poems, The Collected Works of James Hogg. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008, pp.lxxvii-ci.
• O'Halloran M. Hogg, Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Illustrations to The Queen’s Wake. In: Mack, DS, ed. The Queen's Wake : A Legendary Tale. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005, pp.lxxxvii-cxiii.
• O'Halloran M, Kövesi S (Guest eds.). Crossing Borders. Special Issue of The John Clare Society Journal 2003, 22.
• O'Halloran M. Treading the Borders of Fiction: Veracity, Identity, and Corporeality in 'The Three Perils. Studies in Hogg and his World 2001, (12), 40-55.