Dr Jan Cronin

BA(hons) Trinity College, The University of Dublin (1999); PhD University of Leeds (2005)

Senior Lecturer

In: English and Drama » Humanities » Faculty of Arts

Deputy Dean

In: Graduate Centre » School of Graduate Studies

Research | Current

Adaptation studies
Irish studies
Janet Frame

My current research project is based in comparative Adaptation Studies, where I am engaged in comparing processes of textual and cultural adaptation in selected case studies from Ireland, the United States and New Zealand.

Teaching | Current

ENGLISH 266 Reinventing Ireland

ENGLISH 361 Reinventing Ireland

ENGLISH 781 Research Project

Postgraduate supervision

I welcome supervision enquiries in the following areas: Janet Frame, New Zealand Literature, Irish Studies, Adaptation Studies, and Participatory Fan Culture.

In addition to supervising multiple BA(Hons) research projects in Irish theatre, I have supervised the following Masters and PhD theses:

2013-2014 April-Rose Geers, "The Collaborative Construct: Reading Multiplicity in Multiply Authored Texts", MA thesis (sole supervisor)
2013-2014 Brent Stehlin, "Perception, Expression and Intersubjectivity: A Phenomenological Framework for Reading the Novels of Janet Frame", MA thesis (sole supervisor)
2012-2013 Hanna Luypers “Open Day in the Factory of the Mind”: Occupational Therapy in the Novels of Janet Frame’, MA thesis (sole supervisor)
2011-2012 Marcia Russell, "Made in New Zealand: a biographical criticism of Australian poet and journalist Elizabeth Riddell (1907-1998)", MLitt thesis (joint-supervisor)
2007-2011 Lucy Treep, "An imagined Space: the dynamics of home in Eve Langley's novels. PhD thesis (main supervisor)
2010 Anna O'Callaghan, "Cult Author Versus Literary Celebrity: Commentary of and on Janet Frame and Margaret Atwood", MA Thesis (sole supervisor)
2009 Elizabeth Welsh, "'That divine spring into the bounding outline of things': Katherine Mansfield and Phenomenology", MA thesis (sole supervisor)
2007 Steven Ruszczycky, "Interpreting Sex: Queer Theory and Contemporary New Zealand Fiction", MA thesis (sole supervisor)
2006-2009 Clara Palleja-Lopez, "House Imagery in Women’s Horror Fiction: the haunted house as a reflection of socio-cultural conditions", PhD thesis (main supervisor)
2005-2006 Isabel Haarhaus,"'Turning the Stone of [B]eing': A Question of Arrival in the Long Fiction of Janet Frame", PhD thesis (co-supervisor)

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

Cronin, J. (2017). Adapting The Quiet Man: John Ford, José Luis Guerín, and the Palimpsest of Place. Adaptation, 10 (1), 93-113. 10.1093/adaptation/apx001
Cronin, J. (2014). "What is't that ails young Harry Gill?": Containers, contents, and composition in Janet Frame's 'in the memorial room'. Commonwealth Essays and Studies, 36 (2), 93-102. Related URL.
Cronin, J. S. (2013). 'If I was Irish I’d be crying by now': Irishness and Exteriority, Doyle’s 'Deportees' and the Irish Plays of Martin McDonagh. Irish Studies Review, 21 (2), 188-202. 10.1080/09670882.2013.786919
Cronin, J. S. (2012). Most Colonial, Postcolonial, Post-Postcolonial?: Irish Skulls and (K)iwi Bones. ARIEL: a review of international English literature, 43 (3), 59-91. Related URL.
Cronin, J. S. (2011). The Frame Function: An Inside-Out Guide to the Novels of Janet Frame. Auckland: Auckland University Press. Pages: 232.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/10508
Cronin, J. S. (2009). Through a Glass Darkly: Reading the Enigmatic Frame. In J. Cronin, S. Drichel (Eds.) Frameworks: Contemporary Criticism on Janet Frame (pp. 3-23). Amsterdam: Rodopi.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/10329
Cronin, J., & Drichel, S. (Eds.) (2009). Frameworks: Contemporary Criticism on Janet Frame. Amsterdam: Rodopi. Related URL.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/10500
Cronin, J. S. (2007). The book belongs to all of us: "Gone with the Wind" as postcultural product. Literature-Film Quarterly, 35 (1), 396-403.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/10331