2010 – 2011 Research Fellowships in the Arts and Humanities

In the autumn of 2009 the Trinity Long Room Hub announced a competition for Visiting Research Fellowships (VRFs). Almost 120 applications were received from scholars on four continents from across the entire range of arts and humanities research. In mid-March 2010 a selection committee, overseen by the external assessor, Professor Gabrielle Griffin of York University, awarded VRFs of between 1 and 6 months to 35 outstanding scholars.
Fellows will have full access to the collections of the Library, will be provided with an office in the new Hub building, and will become members of the Senior Common Room. Each Fellow will give one class, lecture or seminar during the tenure of their VRF.

The following is the list of the 2010-2011 VRFs and their projects:

1. Abbas, Dr Asma (Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Massachusetts), ‘A Politics of Love on the Verges: Rethinking the Margins via Anticolonial Timescapes’.
2. Agnani, Professor Sunil M (University of Illinois at Chicago), ‘European Anticolonialism at its Limit: Denis Diderot and Edmund Burke, 1770-1800’.
3. Campbell, Professor Malcolm Colin (University of Auckland), ‘Unpicking the Seam: Cultural Encounters and Exchanges between the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean, c.1520 – 1942’.
4. Denard, Dr Hugh (King’s College London), ‘Synge's Abbey Theatre: Space and Performance’.
5. Dobronravin, Prof Nikolay (St.Petersburg State University), ‘West African and African Diaspora Islamic Manuscripts (Trinity College Library): A Comprehensive Digital Catalogue'.
6. Donoghue, Professor John (Loyola University Chicago), ‘Irish “Bond Slaves” and the Origins of Abolitionism, 1649-1660’.
7. Dumville, Professor David Norman (University of Aberdeen), ‘The Insular Middle Ages in Irish Scholarship, 1490-1690’.
8. Efurd, Dr David Spurgeon (Skidmore College, New York), ‘Early Monastic sites, Buddhist Practices, and the Historiography of South Asian Architecture’.
9. Fox, Mr Peter Kendrew (Selwyn College, Cambridge), ‘A History of Trinity College Library’.
10. Gonzalez, Dr Valerie (independent scholar), ‘The Transcultural Phenomenon in Mughal Painting, India, 1556-1707’.
11. Harris, Professor T J G (Brown University, RI), ‘The Stuart Kings and the Age of Revolutions’.
12. Hillel, Professor Margot Lesley (Australian Catholic University), ‘History in Stories: Discourses of Children's Literature in Ireland'.
13. Janzen, Professor Terence (University of Manitoba), ‘A Comparative Analysis of ASL and ISL Grammaticization Pathways’.
14. Karian, Professor Stephen (Marquette University), ‘Annotating the Irish Contexts of Swift's Poems’.
15. Kiernan, Professor Benedict F (Yale University), ‘Settler Colonialism and Ethno-religious Violence in Early-Modern Ireland and Cambodia’.
16. King, Professor Heather (University of Redlands, CA), ‘Virtue and Visibility: Representations of Moral Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century Fiction by Women’.
17. Kozluk, Dr Magdalena (University of Lodz), ‘A critical edition of a late Renaissance treatise of health regimen entitled L’Art de vivre longuement, sous le nom de Medee’.
18. Marquardt, Professor Janet T (Eastern Illinois University), ‘Zodiaque's L'Art Irlandais and the Inspiration of Francoise Henry’.
19. McDonald, Dr Grantley Robert (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), ‘Codex Montfortianus (TCD MS 30), Erasmus, the Johannine Comma and Religious Difference in Early Modern Europe’.
20. Monks, Dr Aoife (Birkbeck College), ‘Spectres of Stage Irishness: Playing Irish Around the Globe’.
21. Muller-Funk, Professor Wolfgang (University of Vienna), ‘Narrative Constructions, Culture and Community’.
22. Mulligan, Dr Amy C (University of Bergen), ‘Navigating Peripheralization at the Edges of the World: Irish and Icelandic Topographies’.
23. O'Brien, Dr Carl Sean (University College Cork), ‘The Neoplatonic Demiurge, Procession and Creative Contemplation’.
24. Polleichtner, Professor Wolfgang (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), ‘Testimonia Iamblichi. Edition, Translation, and Commentary’.
25. Rudy, Dr Kathryn Margaret (The Courtauld Institute of Art), ‘The Fagel Missal (TCD MS 81) and Late Medieval Manuscript Production among the Convents of Delft’.
26. Sheil, Dr Aine (University of York), ‘Opera's Digital Future’.
27. Skal, David J (Independent scholar), ‘Bram Stoker: The Final Curtain (a critical biography of Stoker)’.
28. Stubbs, Dr T M C (St Peter’s College, Oxford), ‘American Literature and Irish Culture, 1910-1955’.
29. Sugimura, Dr Noel K (Gonville and Caius, Cambridge), ‘Epic Passion & The Empire of Reason’.
30. Taddia, Dr Elena (independent scholar), ‘Infant corpses and the circulation of medical ideas in early modern Europe, c. 1650-c.1800’.
31. Terrinoni, Dr Enrico (University of Roma Tre), ‘James Joyce's Ulysses. The Annotated Italian Edition’.
32. Thiessen, Dr Gesa Elsbeth (Milltown Institute), ‘Seeing God - The Trinity in Visual Art’.
33. Tjallen, Dr Biorn Gunnar (University of Bergen), ‘Political thought and political action in the European periphery: Scandanavia and Scotland in the later Middle Ages’.
34. Wincencjusz-Patyna, Dr Anita (The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Wroclaw), ‘Children's Book Illustration in Ireland’.
35. Woolley, Professor James (Lafayette College, PA) ‘Swift’s Texts and the Elias Gift: Toward a Full New Edition of Jonathan Swift’s Poems’.

If you have a query about this scheme, please email Dr Jason McElligott

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