Our Research Focal Areas

• Austrian, French and Francophone, German, Irish, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish/Hispanic, Swiss literature(s) and culture(s), especially from the following eras:
• Middle Ages and Early Modern Times/Renaissance, 18th century/Enlightenment, Modernism and avant-gardes; contemporary writing;
• Comparative Literature and Literary Translation/Studies;
• Textual and Visual Studies, literary and cultural imagology;
• Constructions of identity and Otherness in literature and culture (e.g. gender, ethnicity, national stereotyping), literary and cultural teratology (vampirism, werewolves, posthumanism, etc.);
• Migration, multilingualism and multiculturalism in literature and culture, exile and diaspora, Postcolonial Studies;
• Memory, Trauma and Holocaust Studies;
• Constructions of Europe/European Studies;
• Central and Eastern Europe, (Post-) Communism Studies;
• Near and Middle Eastern Studies;
• Literary and cultural theory, narratology, Semiotics;
• Literature and philosophy / economics; literary anthropology;
• Linguistics, (Critical) Discourse Analysis & intercultural business communication;
• Book culture, manuscript and edition studies;
• Language learning.

Research Areas of our School by staff member

Research Matrix

The following diagram summarises and illustrates the School’s research profile.

Research Centres

• The School currently hosts two research centres:
• The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• The Centre for Literary Translation

Research Seminars

Each week a variety of seminars take place within the school. Details are available here.

Research Resources & Culture

The Trinity College Dublin Library holds over four million volumes, including some of the world's most important collections of rare foreign-language books. The Long Room Hub project is being developed to highlight the research traditions and potential of Trinity College Dublin, and some of the other resources that make Dublin such an exceptional location. Among future developments in the School is the creation of a centre for research in European Studies.

Research Ethics (School Policy)