Book / 2023
Postcolonial Settings in the Fiction of James Clarence Mangan, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker – Strange Surroundings
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. ISBN 978-3-031-40390-3.
Team / Our researchers
A leading expert on Irish Gothic literature whose research explores the intersection of the short story tradition, nineteenth-century Irish literature, postcolonial Gothic, and gender studies.
Key areas
Irish Gothic · 19th-century literature · Postcolonial theory
Biography
Richard Jorge earned his BA in English Studies (Language and Literature) at the University of the Basque Country (EHU). Driven by his interest in literature, he complemented his degree with an MA in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at University College Dublin, where his minor thesis on Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and the Gothic tradition was supervised by Professor Declan Kiberd. In 2016 he completed his PhD on the relationship between the short story and the Irish Gothic tradition in the writings of James Clarence Mangan, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker at the University of Santiago de Compostela. His research interests include Irish Gothic literature, nineteenth-century Irish literature, postcolonialism and gender theories, among others.
He has taught at several universities, including the University of Cantabria (UC) or the University of the Atlantic (UNEAT), and is currently teaching at the Department of English, German, Translation and Interpretation at the University of the Basque Country (EHU). His teaching experience has covered various topics, including History, Literature, Approaches to Teaching, general English, or English for Specific Purposes subjects. In the same vein, he has taught at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, supervising several end-of-year dissertations and Masters' theses. He has participated in over twenty conferences, both national and international, and has edited several book collections. He collaborates with the research group Discurso e Identidade at the University of Santiago de Compostela and is a founding member of Eusk-Cara. Basque Centre for Irish Studies.
Research focus
- Postcolonial Gothic Literature
- 19th Century Anglo-Irish Literature
- Feminism and Gender Studies in Irish Literature
- Irish Folklore
Thesis & project supervision
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.
Selected publications
Chapter / 2024
Questioning Identities in the Postmodern Nation: Memory, Past and the Self in Claire Keegan’s ‘The Night of the Quicken Trees.’
In Reimagined Communities: Rewriting Nationalisms in European Literary Discourses, pp. 81–102. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2024. ISBN 978-3-8470-1657-1.
Article / 2022
Anglo-Irish Representations and Postcolonial Discourse in J. S. Le Fanu's ‘The Familiar.’
Nineteenth-Century Contexts 43(1): 159–174, 2022.
Article / 2021
Untranslatable Characters: James Clarence Mangan and the English Language
English Studies 102: 193–209, 2021.
Article / 2020
Debunking Protestant Celticism: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Language Appropriation in ‘The Quare Gander’ and ‘An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street’
Journal of Language, Literature and Culture 67(3): 143–158, 2020.