EUSK-CARABasque Centre of Irish Studies

Research

Our research lines, supervised theses, and projects in Irish literature and culture.

01 / Research

Research lines

Literature and culture, considered across languages, histories, and borders.

  1. 01

    Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama

  2. 02

    Irish Gothic Studies

  3. 03

    Joycean Studies

  4. 04

    Basque-Irish Connections

  5. 05

    Folklore and Children’s Literature

  6. 06

    Irish Literature: 19th Century to Present

  7. 07

    Traditional Irish Music

  8. 08

    Comparative Cultural Studies

Supervised theses Research projects

02 / Supervised research

Supervised Theses

Doctoral theses, master’s theses, and end-of-degree projects supervised by Eusk-Cara members.

Richard Jorge

Master’s Theses

  • “Del lamento al eco: El rescate de la voz de Eibhlín Dubh en Un fantasma en la garganta (2020/2023) de Doireann Ní Ghríofa”, 2025.
  • “Natural Approach as an Accelerating Factor in the Process of Acquiring a Second Language”, 2021.
  • “Writing to Learn Content in CLIL through the Use of New Technologies”, 2021.

End-of-Degree Project Supervision

  • “Women by Chinua Achebe: Analysis of the Portrayal of Female Characters in Things Fall Apart (1958) and Anthills of the Savannah (1987)”, 2024.
  • “Exploring Class Difference in the Relationship between Connell and Marianne in Normal People by Sally Rooney”, 2024.
  • “Exploring Loneliness and Gender Alienation in Claire Keegan's Walk the Blue Fields (2007)”, 2025.

Charlie Jorge

PhD Thesis Supervision

  • “The Irish Postcolonial Gothic Binary in Anne Enright’s The Gathering and Tana French’s The Likeness”, ongoing.

End-of-Degree Project Supervision

  • “Re-Imagining The Triumph of Eliza Parsons’ Heroines in The Castle of Wolfenbach: A Metanarrative of Feminism in late 18th Century Gothic Literature”, 2024.
  • “The Inadequacy of Language to Represent Reality in Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘Ligeia’”, 2024.
  • “The Figure of the Misfit in 19th- and 20th-Century American Gothic: From Ichabod Crane and Hester Prynne to Carrie White”, 2025.
  • “Heritage Reimagined: A Proposal for an Educational Gothic-Themed Boutique Hotel”, 2026.
  • “Crime-Related Tourism as a Form of Dark Tourism: A Comparative Analysis of Jack the Ripper and Enriqueta Martí”, 2026.
  • “The Mother Prometheus: Mother Nature and the Monstrous Feminine in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”, 2026.

Eider Gómez

End-of-Degree Project Supervision

  • “The Role of Women and Mental Health in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar”, 2021.
  • “Beating the Odds: Gender and Religion in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents”, 2021.
  • “Intersection of Identities in Tony Kushner's Angels in America: A Gay Fantasy on National Themes”, 2022.
  • “Women in the Spotlight: Feminine Characters in Ellen Glasgow’s Virginia and Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse”, 2022.
  • “Subverting Hegemonic Discourse: The Focus on the Power of the Body, Sexuality and Nature in Allen Ginsberg and Diane di Prima’s Poetry”, 2023.
  • “Literary Vision of Dehumanisation Through the Lack of Human Rights: An Influence of War”, 2023.
  • “Homophobia and Neglect Against Gay Community: Analysing Rat Bohemia”, 2024.
  • “Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty-Four: a Fight for Humanity”, 2024.
  • Heidi Lizarralde Cabriada. “Mental Health and Women in the 1950s: An Analysis of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar”, 2024.
  • “Mrs. Dalloway and Clarissa: Clarissa Dalloway’s Alternation between Tradition and Transgression in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway”, 2025.
  • “Who Am I Not? Societal Criticism in The Catcher in the Rye”, 2025.
  • “The Effect of Podcasts on EFL Learning”, 2026.
  • “Form vs meaning: Perception and production of past-form modal verbs and modal perfects by Basque and/or Spanish L1 English learners”, 2026.

03 / Projects

Research Projects

Details of our research projects will be published here soon.