Dr Darragh Greene BA (Dublin), MPhil (Dublin) and PhD (Dublin)
Dr Greene studied English Literature for a Single Honours degree in Trinity College Dublin, gaining his BA (Hons) in 2000. He went on to take an MPhil in Medieval Language, Literature and Culture at the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Trinity College Dublin in 2001. He began a PhD thesis in 2002 on the topics of divine speech and personal relationship to God in Middle English Literature, completing it in 2008 and commencing his doctorate in 2009.
He is currently preparing articles on Julian of Norwich and divine speech; Dante and the social instinct; Mankind and linguistic wit; and Chaucer and the problem of prescience. He is preparing a paper on Wittgenstein and Finnegans Wake to be delivered at the 2009-2010 School of English Staff and Postgraduate Seminar Series.
In 2009-2010, he tutored on the SF ‘Fables’ course and the SF ‘Medieval and Renaissance Romance’ course.
He published an article on James I’s Kingis Quair: ‘“Sum newe thing”: Allegory, Autobiography and Authority in the Kingis Quair’, in On Allegory: Some Medieval Aspects and Approaches, ed. by Mary Carr and others (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2008); and he has an article forthcoming on the Parlement of the Thre Ages: ‘The Parlement of the Thre Ages: Age, Argument and Allegory’, in Youth and Old Age: Essays in Honour of John Scattergood, ed. by Karen Hodder and others (Woodbridge, Suffolk:Boydell and Brewer, 2009-2010).
Contact:
Dr Darragh Greene
e-mail: dagreene@tcd.ie