Dr. Ema Vyroubalová B.A. (Amherst College), M.A. and Ph.D. (Stanford)
Assistant Professor in Early Modern Literature
Director, Broad Curriculum
I specialize in early modern British and continental literature. I completed my PhD in English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University in 2010 and before joining the School of English at Trinity in 2011 I was a lecturer at the University of Haifa in Israel.
Teaching
At the Freshman level I coordinate two courses -- Fables and Shakespeare: Text, Stage, Screen -- and teach in The Gods in Literature and Medieval and Renaissance Romance courses. At the Sophister level I teach a year-long option on Global Shakespeare (focusing on adaptations, productions, and films of Shakespeare's plays from outside of the UK and North America) and a one-term option on Early Modern Women Writers. I also serve as the director of Understanding Literature, the Broad Curriculum course offered by the School of English.
Research
My research focuses on the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. I am currently completing a book on the interactions between English and foreign languages in England between 1534 and 1625, based on my doctoral dissertation. The project deals primarily with encounters between English and other languages in a range of early modern dramatic texts and theoretical discussions of linguistic difference in a variety of early modern non-fiction prose texts. I am planning a second book addressing the issue of how the development of new understandings of animals and the discovery of previously unknown animals in the early modern period impacted English literary culture. I am also interested in the performance history of Shakespeare’s plays, especially outside of the UK and North America, and Shakespeare on film. I run the Transatlantic Early Modern Seminar, a series of video-link talks, which brings together scholars from Irish, UK, and US universities.
Supervision
I can supervise theses on a range of topics in the early modern period, including Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, early modern women writers, early modern travel narratives, and early modern translations, multilingualism and language instruction. I would be particularly excited to hear from anyone interested in Shakespeare's plays in a variety of global and intercultural contexts.
Contact:
Email: vyroubae@tcd. ie
Dr. Ema Vyroubalová
School of English
Arts Building
Room 5089
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin 2, Ireland
Tel: (01) 8964722