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Dermot Ryan - Loyola Marymount University. Los Angeles, CA, US

Dermot Ryan

Professor and Associate Chair of English | Loyola Marymount University

Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

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Biography

Dermot Ryan studied English as an undergraduate at Trinity College, Dublin, and went on to complete a Masters in Irish Literature at Queens University, Belfast and a Doctorate in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Dr. Ryan’s teaching interests include horror and other body genres, Irish literature and culture, anti-capitalist and postcolonial theories, youth subcultures, and William Wordsworth. He is currently working on Dark Pastoral, a book-length study of post-sixties survivalist narratives in American fiction and film.

Courses being taught these upcoming semesters:
Fall 2024: On sabbatical
Spring 2025: Irish Literature and Culture (1890-Present); Theory, Power and Rhetoric

Education (5)

Columbia University: Ph.D., Postgraduate Studies

Columbia University: M.Phil., Graduate Studies

Columbia University: M.A., Graduate Studies

The Queen's Univeristy of Belfast: M.A., Graduate Studies

Trinity College: B.A., Undergraduate Studies

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Areas of Expertise (5)

British and Irish Literature

Eighteenth Century Literature

Print Culture

Postcolonial Theory

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