Research Areas

Our School is comprised of seven departments:

• French
• German
• Hispanic Studies
• Irish and Celtic Languages
• Italian
• Near and Middle Eastern Studies
• Russian and Slavonic Studies

As well as eight affiliated Research Centres and Entities:

• Trinity Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation
• Trinity Centre for Forced Migration Studies
• Trinity Centre for Digital Humanities
• Trinity Centre for Resistance Studies
• Centre for Global Intercultural Communications
• Al Maktoum Centre for Middle Eastern Studies
• Herzog Centre for Near Eastern and Jewish Religions and Culture

• Arabic, Austrian, French and Francophone, German, Irish, Italian, Jewish, Persian, Polish, Russian, Spanish/Hispanic, Swiss
• Turkish/Ottoman literatures and cultures, from the Middle Ages, Renaissance/Early Modern Times, or 18th century/Enlightenment, onwards
• Modernism and avant-gardes, contemporary writing
• Comparative Literature and Literary Translation/Studies
• Constructions of identity and Otherness in literature and culture (e.g. gender, ethnicity, national stereotyping), literary and cultural teratology (vampirism, werewolves, posthumanism, etc.)
• Migration, multilingualism and multiculturalism in literature and culture, exile and diaspora, Postcolonial Studies
• Intermediality, interart and interdisciplinary studies
• Cinema studies
• Political opposition, dissidence, mafia
• Memory, Trauma and Holocaust Studies
• Constructions of Europe/European Studies
• Central and Eastern Europe, (Post-) Communism Studies
• Near and Middle Eastern Studies
• Literary and cultural theory, narratology, Semiotics
• Literature and philosophy / economics; literary anthropology
• Linguistics, (Critical) Discourse Analysis and intercultural communication
• Book culture, manuscript and edition studies
• Language learning