Staff List

DIRECTOR

Sarah Alyn Stacey, BA (Hull), PhD (Hull), Membre de l'Académie de Savoie, FTCD (2004)
For further details, please see the Centre's Contact Information Page, and Dr Alyn Stacey's Department of French Staff Profile Page

Visiting Research Fellows
Helen Conrad-O’Briain, B.A .(Steubenville, Ohio), M.M.S. (Notre Dame), Ph.D
Barbara Crostini, B.A. (Oxon.), D.Phil. (Oxon.)
Peter Field, B.A. (Oxon.), B. Litt. (Oxon.), M.A. (Oxon.)
Gavin Hughes, B.A. (Wales), Ph.D (Wales)
Savvas Neocleous, B.A. (Cyprus), M.Phil, Ph.D
Eavan O’Brien, M.A., Ph.D
Jane Roberts, B.A., M.A. (Dubl., Oxon.), M.Litt., D.Phil. (Oxon.), Litt.D (h.c.)
David Rundle, B.A. (Oxon.), M.A. (Oxon.), D.Phil. (Oxon.)
Pauline Smith, B.A. (Lond.), Ph.D (Lond.)
Anatole Tchikine, B.A., Ph.D

Directors of Research Networks

Barbara Crostini, B.A. (Oxon.), D.Phil. (Oxon.): Byzantine Studies Research Network

Dr Barbara Crostini Lappin has been collaborating with the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies now for a number of years. She secured funding from the European Science Foundation for a workshop on the theme: '"Convivencia" in Byzantium? Cultural Exchanges in a Multi-Ethnic and Multi-Lingual Society', which took place inTrinity College 1-3 October 2010. She has acted as supervisor for one of the Centre's Ph.D. candidates (Dr Savvas Neocleous) looking at the interaction of Greeks and Latins around the time of the Crusades. Drawing on her expertise in the study of Greek manuscripts gained at the Vatican Library and at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Dr Crostini Lappin has been teaching courses and giving seminars on the skills required in reading and interpreting these ancient Greek documents to graduate students at the Queen's University of Belfast and at TCD. In particular, the Chester Beatty Library hosted a teaching seminar which she conducted in 2004, and now she is involved in the first in-depth project of cataloguing the considerable collection of Greek Manuscripts at TCD, benefiting from the Long Room Hub funding initiative. The aim of this project is to make available scholarly descriptions of TCD manuscripts on-line with links to digital images from the manuscripts themselves.

Eavan O’Brien, M.A., Ph.D: Early-Modern Women in Europe Research Network

Dr O’Brien is an Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Languages, Literatures & Cultural Studies, Trinity College Dublin. She is a specialist in Early Modern Spain and has a particular interest in the history and literature of women in that period.

Selected publications:
Women in the Prose of María de Zayas (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2010)

 Representing Women’s Authority in the Early Modern World: Struggles, Strategies, and Morality, ed. by Eavan O’Brien(London: IGRS Books, 2012), in preparation

‘Authority and Authorship in Isabel de Liaño’s Religious Epic’, in Representing Women’s Authority in the Early Modern World: Struggles, Strategies, and Morality (London: IGRS Books, 2012), in preparation

‘Verbalizing the Visual: María de Zayas, Mariana de Carvajal, and the Frame-Narrative Device’, Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, 12.3 (2012), 116-141

‘Imagining an Early Modern Matria? The Representation of Age in Zayas and Carvajal’, Forum for Modern Language Studies, 47.2 (2011), 197-209

‘Personalizing the Political: The Habsburg Empire of María de Zayas’s Desengaños amorosos’, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 88.3 (2011), 289-305

‘Locating the Diary of Persecuted Innocence: María de Zayas’s Adaptation of Hagiographic Historias’, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 87.3 (2010), 295-314

‘Games in ‘The Garden of Deceit’: A Seventeenth-Century Novella by María de Zayas y Sotomayor’, Modern Language Review, 104.4 (2009), 955-965

‘Female Friendship Extolled: Exploring the Enduring Appeal of María de Zayas’s Novellas’, Romance Studies, 26.1 (2008), 43–59.

Gerald Morgan, M.A. (Oxon.), D.Phil. (Oxon.), FTCD (1993-2002): Chaucer in Context Research Network

Junior Lecturer, Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, Trinity College Dublin (1968-2010). Fellow of Trinity College Dublin (1993-). The author of some 40 articles, his books include Geoffrey Chaucer: The Franklin's Tale, The London Medieval and Renaissance Series (London, 1980; reprinted Dublin, l992); Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Idea of Righteousness (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, l99l); The Tragic Argument of Troilus and Criseyde, 2 vols (Lewiston, Queenston, and Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2005); The Shaping of English Poetry: Essays on 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight', Langland, Chaucer and Spenser (Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Wien: Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2010). His latest book, a collection of articles by some of the most eminent Chaucer scholars of this period, is Chaucer in Context: A Golden Age of English Poetry (Oxford:Peter Lang, 2012). This was launched in Trinity’s Long Room Hub on 11 May 2012. Dr Morgan is also founder and Director of the Chaucer Hub.

Anatole Tchikine, B.A., Ph.D: Early-Modern Gardens in Context

Anatole Tchikine is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, where he received both his Honors B.A. (1997) and a Ph.D. on the sixteenth-century Florentine sculptor Francesco Camilliani (2004). He has been teaching in the Department of History of Art and Architecture from 2001 and was a Fellow of the Medici Archive Project in Florence in 2002-05. In 2010, he was awarded a Fellowship in Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC. Dr Tchikine's research mainly focuses on gardens and fountains in fourteenth- through eighteenth-century Italy. His other area of expertise is art and architecture at the sixteenth-century Medici court (with a particular interest in gift exchange). Much of his work has been conducted in archives and libraries of Florence and Naples. Dr Tchikine has contributed to the Encyclopedia of Sculpture (Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004) and published in Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes. He is currently working on a book on the Neapolitan fontaniere Giovanni Antonio Nigrone (active 1585-1609), whose unpublished treatise on sixteenth-century fountain design and hydraulics he addressed in a number of recent articles and conference papers.  
Recent Publications:

• ‘”Galera, navicella, barcaccia?" Bernini’s fountain in Piazza di Spagna revisited, Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes, 31 (2011), 4, pp. 311-331
• ‘Horticultural differences: the Florentine garden of Don Luis de Toledo and the nuns of S. Domenico del Maglio,’ Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes, 30 (2010), 3, pp. 224-240
• ‘Giochi d’acqua: water effects in Renaissance and Baroque Italy,’ Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes, 30 (2010), 1, pp. 57-76

VISITING ACADEMICS
Juliet O'Brien, B.A., M.A. (Cantab.), B.A. (Manc.), M.A., Ph.D (Princeton)
Dr O'Brien is currently a visiting assistant professor at the University of British Columbia. Her previous appointments were at University College Dublin (lecturer) and Princeton University (lecturer / instructor). She ran a very successful Old French course for the Centre's Outreach Programme 2008-2009. She teaches French literature and language. Her research is on medieval French and Occitan poetry, on connections between medieval and post-medieval textualities and hypertextuality, and about the purpose of reading and its practice in interactive communities. Her background has also shaped a broader concern with hybridity, cosmopolitanism, and tolerance.
Publications include "Reading (and) Courtly Love in Flamenca, via the Charrette Project." In Dame Philology's Charrette: Approaching Medieval Textuality through Chrétien's Lancelot (Essays in Memory of Karl D. Uitti), ed. Gina Greco and Ellen Thorington (Tempe, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Arizona State U P, 2010)."Making Sense of a Lacuna in the Romance of Flamenca." TENSO Ð Bulletin of the Société Guilhem IX 20.2 (2005): 1-25.