WGSS Works-in-Progress Seminar

The WGSS Works-in-Progress Seminar (WiPS) is a forum for faculty and advanced postgraduate students to present current research (including book chapters, articles, conference papers etc.) to colleagues for feedback and discussion in a collegial and supportive environment. We encourage all faculty and postgraduate students at Trinity College Dublin interested in the study of women, gender and sexuality to attend, ask questions, share feedback, and help build and foster our community.

Faculty, postdocs and PhD students interested in presenting at WiPS should reach out to the seminar convenor directly by email or by filling out this form. A scholar from outside of TCD may request an invitation to attend as a guest by contacting the convenor directly and expressing their interest and qualifications in WGSS.

Schedule

MT / HT 2026-2027

Tuesdays 9:30 am - 11 am

Trinity Long Room Hub Seminar Room

Convenor: Dr. Gillian Frank

Tuesday, September 29, 2026: Emma Taylor (Queens) (Respondent: Gillian Frank) presents "“‘I Will Dress as I Am a Mind To’: Rethinking Gender and Identity through the Case of Rosetta/Edwin Wakeman".

Tuesday, October 13, 2026: Yushu Geng (TCD) (Respondent: Ruth Karras) presents "‘She-men and he-flirts’: Vanishing Cream, the Modern Boy, and the Gendered Politics of Consumption in Republican China".

Tuesday, October 20, 2026: Jennifer Ingleheart (Durham) (Respondent: Monica Gale) presents "Catullus 51 as a queer translation of Sappho fr. 31".

Tuesday, November 10, 2026: Tom Hulme (Queens) (Respondent: Ciaran O'Neill) presents "Magic, folklore collecting, and queerness in 20th century rural Ireland".

Tuesday, November 24, 2026: Fitzy (Emma) Fitzgerald (TCD) (Respondent: Brian Hanley) presents "Masculinities in the Online Discourse of the Irish Far Right".

Tuesday, December 1, 2026: Máire Hussey (TCD) (Respondent TBD) presents "I was very surprised how very naive she is': A microhistory of sex work and the Irish in London during the long 1960s'".

Tuesday, January 26, 2027: Philomena Mullen (TCD) (Respondent: Dan Geary) presents "Title TBD".

Tuesday, February 9, 2027: Sparky Booker (TCD) (Respondent: Jane Ohlmeyer) presents "Married women's names: marital and natal surnames in late medieval Ireland".

Tuesday, February 23, 2027: Khushi Jain (TCD) (Respondent: Suzanne Lynch) presents "Virgil's Creusa".

Tuesday, March 16, 2027: Ezra Kücken (TCD) (Respondent: Yushu Geng) presents "Doing Nannü: A New Methodological Approach to the Problem of Prostitution".

Tuesday, March 23, 2027: Rachel Killeen (TCD) (Respondent: Deirde Foley) presents "Professional Married Women and their Work in Ireland 1965-1985".

Tuesday, March 30, 2027: Maeve O'Riordan (UCC) (Respondent: Lindsey Earner-Byrne) presents "Letters as female familial spaces: mourning Elizabeth Leigh, 1880".

Previous WIPS:

MT / HT 2025-2026

September 29, 2025: Ruth Karras (Respondent: Tess Wingard) presents "The Invention of Gomorrah".

October 13, 2025: Dan Geary (Respondent: Gillian Frank) presents "‘Revolutionizing Society’: Gloria Steinem and Left-Liberal Feminism".

November 3, 2025: Suzanne Lynch (Respondent: Monica Gale) presents "The Language of Sexual Violence in Ancient Greek Literature".

November 17, 2025: Aleksandra Gajowy (UCD) (Respondent: Millie Horton-Insch) presents "Theorising the Polish Lesbian: The Marian-Sapphic Iconography of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa".

February 16, 2026: Deirdre Foley (Respondent: Susan Byrne) presents "'A Woman Who Has Been Confined’: Maternity Policy And Provision In The Republic Of Ireland, 1950-1990".

March 9, 2026: Keira Williams (Queen’s University) (Respondent: Dan Geary) presents "“All She Wants to Do Is Rock”: Sex, Jim Crow, and the Birth of Beach Music".

March 23, 2026: Jennifer Redmond (Maynooth) (Respondent: Georgina Laragy) presents "'The Black/Grey Market Of Irish Adoptions In The Twentieth Century: Insights From The International Social Service Archive'".