Dr. Caitriona Leahy

• 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]Book Chapter, 2016
• Caitriona Leahy, Saving the Present. Anselm Kiefer as self-archivist, Edinburgh German Yearbook , (9), 2015, p65 - 83Journal Article, 2015
• Caitriona Leahy, On Difficulty, Beyond Crisis. Visions for the New Humanities, University of Durham, 7-8 July 2014, 2014Conference Paper, 2014
• 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, 2008Conference Paper, 2008
• 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, 2010Conference Paper, 2010
• 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, 2004Conference Paper, 2004
• 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, 2000Conference Paper, 2000
• Caitriona Leahy, Apocalypse as Fiction: Christoph Ransmayr, Apocalypse, University College Cork, 1999Conference Paper, 1999
• 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 , 2005Conference Paper, 2005
• Caitriona Leahy, Narrative and Death, Conferencce of University Teachers of German , University of Southampton, 2000Conference Paper, 2000
• Caitriona Leahy, Bearing Witness to VIolence, Identity, Culture and Violence, University of St Andrew's, 2003Conference Paper, 2003
• Caitriona Leahy, Ingeborg Bachmann: Writing against War, Opening of Exhibition, University College Cork, 2004Invited Talk, 2004
• 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, 2017Review, 2017
• Caitriona Leahy, German Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference, 14-15 November 2014, 2014, The Long Room Hub, TCDMeetings /Conferences Organised, 2014
• Caitriona Leahy, Comparative LIterature Association of Ireland Postgraduate Conference, November 2009, 2009, TCDMeetings /Conferences Organised, 2009
• Caitriona Leahy, Royal Irish Academy Modern Languages Conference: Cultural Exchange, 13-14 November 2009, 2009, RIA / TCDMeetings /Conferences Organised, 2009
• Caitriona Leahy and Gilbert Carr, The Austrian State Treaty fifty years on: Writing, Identity and Austrian Independence, 25-26 November 2005, 2005, TCDMeetings /Conferences Organised, 2005
• Caitriona Leahy and Bernadette Cronin, Ingeborg Bachmann, May 2004, 2004, TCDMeetings /Conferences Organised, 2004
• Caitriona Leahy, 'Trauma', Trauma. Built to break, Trinity College Dublin, 2015, -Exhibition, 2015, URL
• 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]Book Chapter, 2020
• Caitríona Leahy, 'Der wahre Historiker'. Ingeborg Bachmann and the Problem of Witnessing History, Würzburg, Königshausen und Neumann, 2007, 236ppBook, 2007
• Caitríona Leahy, Bernadette Cronin, Re-acting to Ingeborg Bachmann. New Essays and Performances (with 2 CDs), Würzburg, Königshausen und Neumann, 2006, 111 - 120ppBook, 2006
• 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]Book Chapter, 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]Book Chapter, 2005
• "Ingeborg Bachmann", Francisca de Haan, Krassimira Daskalova, Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern European Feminisms, Budapest, CEU Press, 2006, pp44 - 47, [Caitriona Leahy]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2006
• 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]Book Chapter, 2006
• 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]Book Chapter, 2004
• '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]Book Chapter, 1999
• 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]Book Chapter, 1995
• Caitriona Leahy, The Gravity and Levity of Isabel Nolan, Probe: Research Night 2017, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College Dublin, 29.9, 2017, Douglas Hyde GalleryInvited Talk, 2017
• Caitriona Leahy, Examining Kleist's Marionettentheater, Aesthetics and Embodiment, Newman House, Dublin 2., 2016, Prof. Maeve CookeInvited Talk, 2016
• Caitriona Leahy, Marcel Illetschko, Mapping Christoph Ransmayr, 16-18 June 2016, In:Mapping Christoph Ransmayr, 2016, Trinity Long Room Hub, Caitriona Leahy, Marcel IlletschkoMeetings /Conferences Organised, 2016
• Caitriona Leahy, Marcel Illetschko, Mapping Ransmayr. Kartierungsversuche zum Werk von Christoph Ransmayr, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021, 1 - 212ppBook, 2021
• 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]Book Chapter, 2021
• Caitriona Leahy, Making Sense. In and of Doron Rabinovici, Austrian Studies, 29, 2021, p15 - 31Journal Article, 2021
• Caitriona Leahy, 'Ansem Kiefer', Field Day Podcast, Dublin, Field Day, 2018, -Broadcast, 2018, URL
• 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, 2022Journal Article, 2022
• Austrian Studies, 31, (2023), Caitriona Leahy and Florian Krobb, [eds.]Journal, 2023
• Caitriona Leahy, Anselm Kiefer's Monumentalism, London and New York, Bloomsbury, 2025Book, 2025
• Caitriona Leahy and Florian Krobb, Austrian Travel Literature, 16th - 18th June, 2022, Maynooth UniversityMeetings /Conferences Organised, 2022
• Caitriona Leahy, Florian Krobb, Standortbestimmungen zwischen Nähe und Ferne. Studien zur österreichischen Reiseliteratur., Berlin, Frank & Timme, 2024, 1 - 372ppBook, 2024
• Caitriona Leahy, Unterwegs zu Bachmann (via Melville). Re-reading Unter Mördern und Irren, Austrian Studies, 32, 2024, p13 - 26Journal Article, 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]Book Chapter, 2024
• Caitriona Leahy, Florian Krobb, Austrian Travel Literature between the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries. Introduction, Austrian Studies, 31, 2023, p1 - 15Journal Article, 2023
• (Un)precedented texts: what goes and comes before the law in, Gert Hofmann , Figures of Law, Francke Verlag, 2007, pp133 - 146, [Caitríona Leahy]Book Chapter, 2007
• 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 - 174ppBook, 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]Book Chapter, 2008
• Caitriona Leahy, The Question of the Contemporary in the Work of Christoph Ransmayr 2000-2010, Austrian Studies, 19, 2011, p200 - 215Journal Article, 2011
• Ingeborg Bachmann: Biographische Porträts in, editor(s)Wilhelm Hemecker, Manfred Mitterrmayer , Mythos Bachmann. Zwischen Inszenierung und Selbstinszenierung, Vienna, Zsolnay, 2011, pp17 - 36, [Caitríona Leahy]Book Chapter, 2011
• Caitriona Leahy, Review of Nelly Sachs. The Poetics of Silence and the Limits of Interpretation, by Elaine Martin , Germanistik In Irland, 7, 2012Review, 2012

• 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 , 2017Invited Talk
• Caitriona Leahy, Foreword To: Anna Nunan, Autobiographical Progression in the writings of Christa Wolf, 2011, -Miscellaneous

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.

• Archbishop Walshe Memorial Award, UCD
• Class Prizes French, English, UCD
• Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences Sabbatical
• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Scholarships (3)
• Máire Colum Award, UCD
• Fellow Trinity College Dublin 2014

• Association of Third-Level Teachers of German in Ireland
• Comparative Literature Association of Ireland
• Conference of University Teachers of German in Great Britain and Ireland

• Committee member of Association of Third-level German Teachers in Ireland committee.
• Member of Royal Irish Academy Modern Languages Committee