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Jessica Ní Dhóráin, (PhD Researcher)

20242024

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Biography

Jessica Ní Dhóráin (Doran) is a PhD researcher at Ulster University in Northern Ireland. Her research is on sapphic witches in recent fantasy fiction, and she has undertaken seminar teaching both in the university and externally with the Seamus Heaney Home Place in Bellaghy. She is Managing Co-editor for the fifth volume of the university’s literary journal, The Paperclip, and has been published in a previous volume of the journal. Her research interests are literary theory, fantasy and genre fiction studies, lesbian literature, and the rise of Irish queer fiction.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities

Education/Academic qualification

Master, Gender, Sexuality and Culture, University College Dublin

Sept 2018Aug 2019

Award Date: 4 Dec 2019

Bachelor, English

Sept 2015May 2018

Award Date: 2 Jul 2018

External positions

Seminar Facilitator, Seamus Heaney Home Place

1 Oct 2024 → …

Keywords

  • PR English literature
  • Fantasy
  • LGBTQIA+
  • Witches
  • Teenage
  • Young adulthood
  • Magic
  • Witchcraft
  • Fantasy Fiction
  • TV
  • Comics
  • HM Sociology
  • LGBTQIA+
  • Queer feminism
  • Queer theory
  • Lesbian Studies

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