Jessica Ní Dhóráin, (PhD Researcher)

Jessica Ní Dhóráin (Doran) is a PhD researcher at Ulster University in Northern Ireland. Her research is on sapphic witches in recent fantasy fiction. She was the managing editor for the fifth volume of the university’s literary journal, The Paperclip, and has been published in a previous volume of the journal. 

Jessica's research interests are in literary theory, fantasy and genre fiction studies, lesbian literature, and the rise of Irish queer fiction.

Ulster University

Jessica has been a seminar facilitator for the BA English module ENG102: Theory and Other Monsters in 2025 and 2026. 

This module introduces students to literary theory through the Gothic, and is taught across prose, poetry, drama and film. Students explore biographical, feminist, marxist, postcolonial, race, and pschoanalytic readings of texts like Bram Stoker's Dracula and the poetry of Sylvia Plath. 

Upon completing the university's First Steps to Teaching module (gaining AFHEA qualification), Jessica has also facilitated an Introduction to Teaching and Learning for post-graduate researchers in Ulster University.

External Teaching

Jessica is currently a facilitator at the Seamus Heaney Home Place in Bellaghy, Nothern Ireland, for KS3 and A-Level, exploring the work of Seamus Heaney and Robert Frost.