Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Caitriona Leahy, Anselm Kiefer's Monumentalism, London and New York, Bloomsbury, 2025
Caitriona Leahy, Unterwegs zu Bachmann (via Melville). Re-reading Unter Mördern und Irren, Austrian Studies, 32, 2024
Reiseschreiben aus Österreich. Standortbestimmungen zwischen Nähe und Ferne in, editor(s)Caitriona Leahy, Florian Krobb , Standortbestimmungen zwischen Nähe und Ferne. Studien zur österreichischen Reiseliteratur, Berlin, Frank & Timme, 2024, pp11 - 23, [Caitriona Leahy, Florian Krobb]
Caitriona Leahy, Florian Krobb, Standortbestimmungen zwischen Nähe und Ferne. Studien zur österreichischen Reiseliteratur., Berlin, Frank & Timme, 2024, 1 - 372pp
Austrian Studies, 31, (2023), Caitriona Leahy and Florian Krobb, [eds.]
Caitriona Leahy, Florian Krobb, Austrian Travel Literature between the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries. Introduction, Austrian Studies, 31, 2023, p1 - 15
Caitriona Leahy and Florian Krobb, Austrian Travel Literature, 16th - 18th June, 2022, Maynooth University
Caitriona Leahy, By Way of Tribute. An Essay on the Matter of Paying Tribute, Germanistik in Irland. Yearbook of the German Studies Association of Ireland, 17, 2022
Caitriona Leahy, Making Sense. In and of Doron Rabinovici, Austrian Studies, 29, 2021, p15 - 31
Stargazing and world mapping: the human and inhuman dimensions of Christoph Ransmayr's work in, editor(s)Caitriona Leahy, Marcel Illetschko , Mapping Ransmayr. Kartierungsversuche zum Werk von Christoph Ransmayr, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021, pp9 - 23, [Caitriona Leahy]
Caitriona Leahy, Marcel Illetschko, Mapping Ransmayr. Kartierungsversuche zum Werk von Christoph Ransmayr, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021, 1 - 212pp
Anselm Kiefer's Signature: Or - Adapting God in, editor(s)Bernadette Cronin, Rachel MagShamhráin, Nikolai Preuschoff , Adaptation as a Collaborative Art: Process and Practice, Hampshire, Palgrave, 2020, pp239 - 258, [Caitriona Leahy]
Caitriona Leahy, 'Ansem Kiefer', Field Day Podcast, Dublin, Field Day, 2018, -
Caitriona Leahy, The Gravity and Levity of Isabel Nolan, Probe: Research Night 2017, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College Dublin, 29.9, 2017, Douglas Hyde Gallery
Caitriona Leahy, The circulation of knowledge in a postcolonial framework, Review of Pidgin-Knowledge. Wissen und Kolonialismus, by Harald Fischer-Tine , Transfer. Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies. Special Issue: Travel WRiting and Knowledge Transfer, Vol 7/1, 2017
Disturbing Anselm Kiefer in, editor(s)Mary Fulbrook, Stephanie Bird, Julia Wagner, Christiane Wienand , Reverberations of Nazi Violence in Germany and beyond. Disturbing Pasts. , London, Bloomsbury Press, 2016, pp181 - 196, [Caitriona Leahy]
Caitriona Leahy, Marcel Illetschko, Mapping Christoph Ransmayr, 16-18 June 2016, In:Mapping Christoph Ransmayr, 2016, Trinity Long Room Hub, Caitriona Leahy, Marcel Illetschko
Caitriona Leahy, Examining Kleist's Marionettentheater, Aesthetics and Embodiment, Newman House, Dublin 2., 2016, Prof. Maeve Cooke
Caitriona Leahy, 'Trauma', Trauma. Built to break, Trinity College Dublin, 2015, -
Caitriona Leahy, Saving the Present. Anselm Kiefer as self-archivist, Edinburgh German Yearbook , (9), 2015, p65 - 83
Caitriona Leahy, On Difficulty, Beyond Crisis. Visions for the New Humanities, University of Durham, 7-8 July 2014, 2014
Caitriona Leahy, German Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference, 14-15 November 2014, 2014, The Long Room Hub, TCD
Caitriona Leahy, Review of Nelly Sachs. The Poetics of Silence and the Limits of Interpretation, by Elaine Martin , Germanistik In Irland, 7, 2012
Ingeborg Bachmann: Biographische Porträts in, editor(s)Wilhelm Hemecker, Manfred Mitterrmayer , Mythos Bachmann. Zwischen Inszenierung und Selbstinszenierung, Vienna, Zsolnay, 2011, pp17 - 36, [Caitríona Leahy]
Caitriona Leahy, The Question of the Contemporary in the Work of Christoph Ransmayr 2000-2010, Austrian Studies, 19, 2011, p200 - 215
Caitriona Leahy, The Monument as Archive: Anselm Kiefer, T.S. Eliot, Christian Boltanski, British Comparative Literature Association Conference XII: Archive, University of Kent at Canterbury, 5 - 8 July 2010, 2010
Caitriona Leahy, Royal Irish Academy Modern Languages Conference: Cultural Exchange, 13-14 November 2009, 2009, RIA / TCD
Caitriona Leahy, Comparative LIterature Association of Ireland Postgraduate Conference, November 2009, 2009, TCD
Caitriona Leahy, '"These fragments I have shored against my ruins" or "looking at devastation while nicely dressed": Anselm Kiefer's Monuments to Culture', The Aesthetics of Trash. Objects and Obsolescence in Cultural Perspective, University College Dublin, 4 - 6 September 2008, 2008
Introduction in, editor(s)Gilbert J. Carr and Caitríona Leahy , Fünfzig Jahre Staatsvertrag: Schreiben, Identität und das unabhängige Österreich/ The State Treaty Fifty Years on: Writing, Identity and Austrian Independence. , Munich, 2008, pp1 - 27, [Caitríona Leahy and Gilbert Carr]
Gilbert J. Carr and Caitríona Leahy, Fünfzig Jahre Staatsvertrag: Schreiben, Identität und das unabhängige Österreich. The State Treaty Fifty Years on: Writing, Identity and Austrian Independence. Internationales Symposium, Trinity College, Dublin, 25.-26. November 2005., Munich, iudicium, 2008, 1 - 174pp
(Un)precedented texts: what goes and comes before the law in, Gert Hofmann , Figures of Law, Francke Verlag, 2007, pp133 - 146, [Caitríona Leahy]
Caitríona Leahy, 'Der wahre Historiker'. Ingeborg Bachmann and the Problem of Witnessing History, Würzburg, Königshausen und Neumann, 2007, 236pp
"Ingeborg Bachmann", Francisca de Haan, Krassimira Daskalova, Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern European Feminisms, Budapest, CEU Press, 2006, pp44 - 47, [Caitriona Leahy]
Bachmann's burning Question. Or: Reading 'Rauchende Worte' in, editor(s)Caitríona Leahy, Bernadette Cronin , Re-acting to Ingeborg Bachmann. New Essays and Performances (with 2 CDs), Königshausen und Neumann, 2006, pp111 - 120, [Caitríona Leahy]
Caitríona Leahy, Bernadette Cronin, Re-acting to Ingeborg Bachmann. New Essays and Performances (with 2 CDs), Würzburg, Königshausen und Neumann, 2006, 111 - 120pp
Caitriona Leahy, Caitríona Leahy, 'Back to the Future: Remembered Things and the Immemorial in Agamben, Zizek and Lyotard' , The Future of Memory, University of Manchester , 2005
On War and Peace. Bachmann and Beate in Cork in, editor(s)Gert Hofmann, Andreas Stuhlmann , Language - Text - Bildung. Essays in Honour of Beate Dreike, London, Peter Lang, 2005, pp113 - 127, [Caitríona Leahy]
Bataille and Kafka. Or: Formless takes Shape in, editor(s)Paul Hegarty, Patrick Crowley , Formless. Ways in and Out of Form, London, Peter Lang, 2005, pp113 - 124, [Caitríona Leahy]
Caitriona Leahy and Gilbert Carr, The Austrian State Treaty fifty years on: Writing, Identity and Austrian Independence, 25-26 November 2005, 2005, TCD
Die Be-gründung des Netzwerkes. Bachmann erkundet den Heideggerschen Grund in, editor(s)Jürgen Barkhoff, Hartmut Böhme, Jeanne Riou , Netzwerke. Eine Kulturtechnik der Moderne, Böhlau Verlag, 2004, pp297 - 308, [Caitríona Leahy]
Caitriona Leahy, Ingeborg Bachmann: Writing against War, Opening of Exhibition, University College Cork, 2004
Caitriona Leahy, Benjamin, Agamben and the Contested Task of Literature, Memory Contests. Cultural Memory, Hybridity and Identity in German Discourse since 1990, University College Dublin, June 2004, 2004
Caitriona Leahy and Bernadette Cronin, Ingeborg Bachmann, May 2004, 2004, TCD
Caitriona Leahy, Bearing Witness to VIolence, Identity, Culture and Violence, University of St Andrew's, 2003
Caitriona Leahy, Bearing Witness: Postmodern Narrative and Barbaric History in Christoph Ransmayr's The Last World, Cultural Trauma and National Identity, Dublin City University, 28 - 29 April 2000, 2000
Caitriona Leahy, Narrative and Death, Conferencce of University Teachers of German , University of Southampton, 2000
Caitriona Leahy, Apocalypse as Fiction: Christoph Ransmayr, Apocalypse, University College Cork, 1999
'In the beginning was the post...' Modern Writers/Postmodern Readers in, editor(s)Nicholas Saul et al , Schwellen. Germanistische erkundungen einer Metapher, Königshausen und Neumann, 1999, pp236 - 249, [Caitríona Leahy]
Reisen in einem Zimmer. Oder: die Wände hochgehen in, editor(s)Anne Fuchs, Theo Harden , Reisen im Diskurs. Modelle der literarischen Fremderfahrung von den Pigerberichten bis zur Postmoderne, Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 1995, pp87 - 101, [Caitríona Leahy]
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Caitriona Leahy, Reflections on Kleist's reflections on self-reflection. Or: why learning outcomes should be abolished., Annual Conference of German Studies Association of Ireland, Cork, 24-25 November , 2017
Caitriona Leahy, Foreword To: Anna Nunan, Autobiographical Progression in the writings of Christa Wolf, 2011, -
Research Expertise
Description
My research and teaching interests lie mostly in the area of cultural theory and its interaction with and illumination of modern and contemporary literature, and more recently, visual art.Recognition
Representations
Committee member of Association of Third-level German Teachers in Ireland committee.
Member of Royal Irish Academy Modern Languages Committee
Awards and Honours
Fellow Trinity College Dublin
Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences Sabbatical
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Scholarships (3)
Máire Colum Award, UCD
Archbishop Walshe Memorial Award, UCD
Class Prizes French, English, UCD
Memberships
Conference of University Teachers of German in Great Britain and Ireland
Association of Third-Level Teachers of German in Ireland
Comparative Literature Association of Ireland