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

RESEARCH ASSOCIATES

• Helen Conrad-O'Briain, BA (Franciscan University of Ohio), MMS (Notre Dame), PhD (Dubl.)
  Dr Conrad-O'Briain teaches in the School of English and in the Centre. Research and Teaching Interests: Natural Law and the 'anima naturaliter Christiana' in patristic and early medieval literature, most particularly Beowulf; the reception of Vergil and the Vergilian commentaries to 1100; the medieval background of Science Fiction. Recent and Forthcoming Publications: 'Trinity Incunabula TT.c.11: a home Virgil from the first age of printing', Long Room, 52-53 (2007-8), 49-57; 'Could Women read in the Middle Ages?' in Misconceptions about the Middle Ages, eds. Stephen Harris and B. L. Grigsby (Routledge, 2007);'Chaucer, technology and the rise of science fiction in English' in On Literature and Science, ed. Philip Coleman (Four Courts, 2007). Contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, edited Robert Bjork (to be published 2010) with 30+ articles.
  
• Dr Barbara Crostini Lappin B.A (Oxon), D.Phil (Oxon)
  Dr Barbara Crostini Lappin has been collaborating with the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies now for a number of years. She is Strand Co-ordinator of the Centre's Byzantine Studies Research Network. 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 will take place at Trinity College, Dublin, 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 by the end of summer, with links to digital images from the manuscripts themselves.
  
• Professor Peter Field, BA (Oxon.), BLitt (Oxon.), MA (Oxon.)

• Dr Gerald Morgan M.A (Oxon), D.Phil (Oxon)
  Junior Lecturer, Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, Trinity College Dublin (1968-2010). Fellow of Trinity College Dublin (1993-2002). 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). Dr Morgan is Strand Co-ordinator of the Centre's Research Network Chaucer in Context.
  
• Dr Eavan O'Brien M.A. (Dubl.), Ph.D. (Dubl.)
  Dr O'Brien is Lecturer at the Department of Hispanic 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. She has been awarded Research Associate status at the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and is also Coordinator of the Forum for the Study of Early Modern Women in Continental Europe.
  
• Dr David Rundle B.A (Oxon), M.A (Oxon), D.Phil (Oxon)

• Professor Jane Roberts, B.A., M.A. (Dubl., Oxon), M.Litt., D.Phil (Oxon)
  Jane Roberts is Emeritus Professor of English Language and Medieval Literature in the University of London, where she is currently an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of English Studies. She holds an Honorary D.Litt. from Trinity and is an Honorary Fellow of St Hugh's College Oxford. Her research interests include the history of the English language, especially lexical semantics and medieval vernacular manuscripts. She is joint author of A Thesaurus of Old English with Christian Kay, and she is one of the four editors of the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. Other publications include The Guthlac Poems of the Exeter Book and A Guide to Scripts used in English Writings up to 1500. She is a regular teacher at the London Summer School in Manuscript Studies held annually at the Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies.
  
• Professor Pauline Smith, BA (Lond.), PhD (Lond.)
  
  
• Dr Anatole Tchikine B.A. (Dubl.), PhD (Dubl.)
  Anatole Tchikine is Strand Co-ordinator of the international research network "Early-modern gardens in context," launched by the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in 2009. He 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. 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 currently works 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.
  

VISITING ACADEMICS

Juliet O'Brien, BA MA (Cantab.), BA (Manc.), MA PhD (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.