Writing Centre Tutors
Fionn O'Sullivan (School of Biochemistry and Immunology)
Fionn is a neuroscience research student in the school of Biochemistry and Immunology. His current research seeks to clarify what neuroscientists mean when they refer to information being stored in the brain as memory traces. He completed his undergraduate degree in neuroscience at Trinity, where he conducted an electroencephalogram study on the interaction between imagination and perception.
Ginevra Bianchini (School of English)
Ginevra Bianchini (she/her) is a third year PhD student in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin, under the supervision of Dr Melanie Otto. Her project focuses on the intersectional and interdisciplinary representation of sexual violence in North America and the UK. She completed her Bachelor's and Master's degrees at the University of Bologna, after having studied abroad at the University of Glasgow, and at Concordia University, Montréal. She has translated novels from English to Italian for Fanucci Editore and has worked on several editorial projects as a reviewer, editor, and transcriber with Performigrations – People are the Territory, Verbal, Decolonial Subversions, and members of the School of English faculty of Trinity College.
Giorgia Conte (School of Economics)
Giorgia Conte is a third-year PhD student in Economics. She uses quantitative methods to address questions related to family economics, public economics, demographic, and labor economics. She joined the Student Learning Development Centre as a Tutor in September 2021. Before starting her PhD program she worked in Frankfurt and Malta. She also lived in Barcelona, Milan and the United States during her studies.
Hannah Mathew (School of English)
Hannah Mathew is a second-year PhD student in the School of English. Her research topic deals with the 1950s-1960s dystopian fiction; more specifically, the works of the British novelist, John Wyndham. She joined the Student Learning Development Centre as a Tutor in January, this year. Her past experience includes working as an Assistant Professor at Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi, India.
Rebecca Easler (School of English)
Rebecca Easler is a final year PhD Student in the School of English at Trinity. Her project examines the intersection between eighteenth- and nineteenth-century constructions of childhood and death culture within the representations of child death in Charles Dickens's novels. She completed her Master's degree in Enlightenment, Romantic, and Victorian literature at the University of Edinburgh in 2017 and finished her BA at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota in 2014, where she worked as an undergraduate Writing Tutor for three years.
Seán Cahill (School of Biochemistry and Immunology)
Seán is a second-year PhD student in the School of Biochemistry and Immunology. He completed his undergraduate degree in Human Health and Disease here at Trinity. His PhD research project aims to investigate the impact of Staphylococcus aureus exposure on innate immune training.