Dean of Students

Dr Amanda Piesse is the Dean of Students and focuses on the development and coordination of policies to promote the student experience. Dr Piesse came from a lectureship at Durham University to work in the School of English at Trinity in 1996, having completed her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at St John’s College Oxford. In 2003, she was promoted to a senior lectureship, elected to Fellowship and won a Provost’s Teaching Award .

She has been a College Tutor since 1996 and has previously served on the Graduate Studies Committee [1999-2002], as a junior representative to Council [2000-2002], a Fellows’ representative to Board [2005-10], as Chair of the Student Services Committee [2007-10] and as Secretary to the Fellows [2004-6]. Her academic interests are in early modern drama and in literature for children, and she is co-director of the new M Phil in Children’s Literature in the School of English. Other interests include running (she ran the Dublin city marathon in 2009 as part of the Trinity Takes To The Streets initiative, to raise money for the College student hardship fund), singing (she has sung in numerous choirs including the RTE Philharmonic) and theatre (she has been president of DU Players since 2004).  Her son Arthur took his degree in mathematics  at Trinity 2005-9, and her daughter wants to come here to read English in the not-too-distant future.

The Dean of Students' Roll of Honour 2013 applications are now open. Further details can be found by clicking the News Link. The form can be found with the application form link.