Dr Brendan O’Connell B.A. (Dublin), Ph.D. (Dublin)

Dr Brendan O’Connell B.A. (Dublin), Ph.D. (Dublin)

Assistant Professor (Ussher Lecturer in Medieval Literature)

Study Abroad Co-ordinator

Appointed to the School in 2006, Brendan O’Connell teaches Medieval Literature, in particular the poetry of the fourteenth- and fifteenth-centuries. At Freshman level, he is the course co-ordinator for The Gods in Literature and Medieval and Renaissance Romance. He also teaches on Fables and Beginnings of English Poetry and offers a Senior Freshman option, Comedy and Carnival in Medieval and Renaissance Literature. At Sophister level, he teaches the year-long Chaucer option and a one-semester course on the Gawain-poet. In addition to teaching within the School, he contributes to the MPhil in Medieval Language, Literature and Culture at the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. His research interests lie primarily in the works of Chaucer and the Gawain-poet, and in the areas of medieval poetics, dream-vision and romance. As Study Abroad co-ordinator, he helps students in the School to arrange exchanges with other universities during the course of their degree. Dr. O’Connell is also a College Tutor.
Recent and Forthcoming Publications

Books:
Transmission and Generation in Medieval and Renaissance Literature: Essays in Honour of John Scattergood, ed. Brendan O’Connell and Karen Hodder (Dublin: Four Courts, 2012)

Articles:
‘Chaucer's Counterfeit Exempla’ in Chaucer's Poetry: Words, Authority and Ethics, Dublin, ed. Cliodhna Carney and Frances McCormack (Dublin: Four Courts, 2013), pp. 134 - 145
‘The Poetics of Fraud: Jean de Meun, Dante and Chaucer’, in Chaucer in Context: A Golden Age of English Poetry, ed. Gerald Morgan (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2012), pp. 261 -78
‘Culture and Dispute in Dialogus de Scaccario’, in Transmission and Generation in Medieval and Renaissance Literature: Essays in Honour of John Scattergood, ed. Brendan O’Connell and Karen Hodder (Dublin: Four Courts, 2012).
‘“Ignotum per ignocius”: Alchemy, Analogy and Poetics in Fragment VIII of The Canterbury Tales’, in Transmission and Transformation in the Middle Ages: Texts and Contexts, ed. Kathy Cawsey and Jason Harris (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), pp. 131-56.
‘Adam Scriveyn and the Falsifiers of Dante’s Inferno: A New Interpretation of Chaucer's Wordes’, Chaucer Review 40.1 (2005): 39-56.

Contact Details:
Dr Brendan O’Connell
School of English
Trinity College
University of Dublin
Dublin 2
Ireland

Links:
MPhil in Medieval Language, Literature and Culture:
http://www.tcd.ie/langs-lits-cultures/postgraduate/medieval_language/Resources.php

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