Professor Mary Cosgrove, Department of German

Mary Cosgrove has been announced as the Professor of German (1776) in the Department of German. The chair in German (1776) at Trinity College Dublin is the oldest in the world and was originally established in 1776. This is a significant post for the School, particularly in light of the 250-year commemoration of the establishment of our Joint Chairs in Modern Languages in 1776.

Professor Cosgrove was appointed Professor in German at Trinity College Dublin in 2015. Previously she was Professor of German at the University of Warwick and Reader in German at the University of Edinburgh. From 2016-2020 she was Germanic Editor of the Modern Language Review. She was elected Fellow of Trinity College in 2021 and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2022.

Professor Cosgrove's various research projects have attracted funding from the IRCHSS (IRC), the AHRC, the British Academy, the DAAD, the ÖAD, and the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. Recent publications include a double special issue of the journal Oxford German Studies (2024) on Professor Cosgrove's current research project, the poetics of relationality in contemporary German literature, and a multidisciplinary co-edited book Framing Ageing (Bloomsbury, also 2024), which reflects Professor Cosgrove's longstanding interest in Medical Humanities.

Other publications are Born under Auschwitz: Melancholy Traditions in Postwar German Literature (2014, Choice recommended title); (with Anna Richards, ed.), ‘Sadness and Melancholy in German-Language Literature and Culture,’ Edinburgh German Yearbook VI (2012); (with Anne Fuchs and Georg Grote, eds.), German Memory Contests: The Quest for Identity in German Literature, Film and Discourse since 1990 (2006, paperback 2010; winner Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2007); Grotesque Ambivalence: Melancholy and Mourning in the Prose Work of Albert Drach (2004).

Professor Philip Tuxbury-Gleissner, Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies

Philip Tuxbury-Gleissner has been announced as an Associate Professor in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies. Professor Tuxbury-Gleissner joins the department from Ohio State University, where he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, where his teaching focused on Soviet and Central European culture, film, and literature, specialising in migration and transnational culture, queer studies, Digital Humanities.

Professor Tuxbury-Gleissner specialises in the cultures and literatures of socialist and contemporary Eastern Europe, with an emphasis on print media in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and the GDR. He is particularly interested in media as agents of mobility: mechanisms that facilitate the transnational circulation of cultural forms within and beyond Eastern and East Central Europe.

Tuxbury-Gleissner’s recent monograph Subscribing to Sovietdom: The Lives of the Socialist Literary Journal (University of Toronto Press, 2025) was awarded the First Book Subvention of the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. His edited volume Resilient Kitchens: American Immigrant Cooking in a Time of Crisis (Rutgers University Press, 2023) received the 2024 James Beard Media Award.