Richard J. Haslam, PhD

• B.A. (Hons.), St Catharine's College, University of Cambridge, 1983
• Ph.D, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland, 1992

General Fields of Professional Interest
Irish literature and criticism in English from the eighteenth century to the present; Irish cinema; rhetorical hermeneutics; narratology; literary theory.

Pedagogical Style
Seminars, workshops, directed discussion; pair work, group work, group reports; twice-weekly writing responses, creative and research papers; active student participation required.

Other Information
Member of MLA, ACIS.

Selected Recent Publications

“Fog-Clearing and the ‘Irish Dimension’ in Oscar Wilde's Three Society Plays,” in Studi Irlandesi: A Journal of Irish Studies 13 (2023): 185-99.

“James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849).” The Green Book: Writings on Irish Gothic, Supernatural and Fantastic Literature, Issue 20 (Samhain [Fall] 2022): 9-16.

“Oscar Wilde and Politics: [review of] Oscar Wilde and the Radical Politics of the Fin de Siècle by Deaglán Ó Donghaile and Resist Everything Except Temptation: The Anarchist Philosophy of Oscar Wilde by Kristian Williams.” The Wildean 59 (July 2021): 100-111.

“Seeking the ‘Irish Dimension’ in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray: ‘What Does ThisMean?’” English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, 63. 4 (April 2020): 533-558.

“The Hermeneutic Hazards of Hibernicizing Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray,” in OscarWilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Norton Third Critical Edition). Ed. Michael Patrick Gillespie (New York: W. W. Norton, 2020). 461-81. [The chapter is an invited republication of an essay previously published in English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, 57. 1 (January 2014).]

“[Review of] Michèle Mendelssohn, Making Oscar Wilde (Oxford University Press, 2018) &Matthew Sturgis, Oscar: A Life (Head of Zeus Ltd, 2018).” Volupté: Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies 3. 2 (2020): 143–149.

“Investigating Irish Gothic: The Case of Sophia Berkley.” Gothic Studies. 19. 1 (May 2017): 34-56.

“Negotiating the Poetics of Irish Gothic via Casuistry,” in Annalisa Volpone and Ilaria Natali, eds., The common darkness where the dreams abide’: Perspectives on Irish Gothic (Perugia: Aguaplano, 2018). 29-53.

“Time to Rethink Your Fin Club Membership? [review essay of Josephine M. Guy, ed. The Edinburgh Companion to Fin-de-Siècle Literature, Culture, and the Arts. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.]” English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, 62. 2 (January 2019): 265-76.

“Le Fanu’s ‘Green Tea’ and Irish Victorian Calvinism,” in Valeria Cavalli and Jarlath Killeen, eds., “Inspiring a Mysterious Terror”: 200 Years of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2016). 93-115.

“‘Broad Farce and Thrilling Tragedy’: Mangan’s Fiction and Irish Gothic.” in Lawrence J. Trudeau, ed., Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Vol. 316 (Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale, 2016). Invited reprint of an essay first published in the journal Éire-Ireland 41: 3 and 4 (Fall / Winter 2006).

“Theory, Empiricism, and ‘Providential Hermeneutics’: Reading and Misreading Sheridan LeFanu’s Carmilla and ‘Schalken the Painter,’” in Lawrence J. Trudeau, ed., Short Story Criticism Vol. 220 (Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale, 2016). Invited reprint of an essay first published in the journal Papers on Language and Literature 47. 4 (Fall 2011).

“Oscar Wilde: An Iatrogenic Diagnosis of an Idiopathic Patient [review of Oscar Wilde: The Great Drama of His Life. How His Tragedy Reflected His Personality. By Ashley H. Robins].” English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 59. 1 (2016): 101-5.