With topics ranging from the architecture of Christ Church Cathedral to the history of sex and medicine in the late Ottoman World, our incoming fellows will join us from all over the world and collaborate with Trinity’s Arts and Humanities Schools and the Library during their fellowships.
The Trinity Long Room Hub’s Fellowship programme is internationally renowned and brings Trinity’s researchers into conversation with the best of their fields globally. Since the inception of the fellowship programme in 2010, the Trinity Long Room Hub has welcomed over 200 fellows. Fellows are particularly attracted by Trinity’s world-class Library and the many collections that can benefit from further research.
In partnership with our Schools and the Library, we are pleased to announce the following fellows for the academic year 2025-26:
September – December 2025
Dr Fearghus Roulston (University of Strathclyde) joins us in the autumn in association with Dr Carole Holohan of Trinity’s School of Histories and Humanities for a project on ‘History, temporality and the Troubles, 1969-1998’.
Dr Veronika Jičínská (University of Jan Evangelista Purkyne) joins us from Czechia to work with Dr Clemens Ruthner from Trinity’s School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies. Her project will explore ‘Joking as Translation in Sigmund Freud’s Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious.’
Professor Sharon Marcus (Columbia University) will join the Trinity Long Room Hub in association with Professor Eve Patten, School of English and former director of the Trinity Long Room Hub. Her project is entitled ‘A new theory of the bildungsroman, or coming-of-age novel.’
Dr Greg Sullivan (University of York) will collaborate with Professor Christine Casey of Trinity’s Department of History of Art and Architecture to work on ‘Contested Histories: the sculpture of Christ Church Cathedral re-examined.
Dr Anna Deeny Morales (Georgetown University) will work with the School of Creative Arts, and Professors Evangelia Rigaki & Nicole Grimes, during her fellowship for a project titled ‘Home Come Home’.
Professor Jacob Thaisen (University of Oslo) will join the Trinity Long Room Hub is association with Dr Mark Faulkner of Trinity’s School of English to work on his project ‘Index of Middle English Prose: MSS in Edinburgh Repository.’
Dr Ikuya Aizawa (University of Nottingham) will work with Dr Rowland Anthony Imperial of Trinity’s School of Linguistics, Speech and Communication Sciences for a project taking in aspects of the decolonised curriculum, ‘Inclusive knowledge production in English medium instruction: Reassessing linguistic hegemony in history education.’
January – May 2026
Dr Secil Yilmaz (University of Pennsylvania) will join us in 2026 for a project in association with Dr Ramazan Hakkı Öztan from Trinity’s School of Histories and Humanities, looking at the ‘Biopolitical Empire: Syphilis, Medicine, and Sex in the Late Ottoman World.’
Professor James Chandler (University of Chicago) will join us for his book project in collaboration with Dr Amy Prendergast from Trinity’s School of English, titled ‘Figures in a Field: Wordsworth and Edgeworth’, examining Wordsworth’s and Anglo-Irish writer Maria Edgeworth’s role in shaping modern criticism.
Professor Elizabeth Solopova (Oxford) will join us in collaboration with Trinity’s Centre for the Book for her project on ‘Medieval Vernacular Bibles as Unity, Diversity and Conflict.’
Professor Christiana Zenner (Fordham University) will collaborate with Dr Jacob Erickson, of Trinity’s School of Religion, Theology and Peace Studies, to work on a project examining ‘Waters, Sediments, and Entangled Anthropocene Ethics.’
Professor Elke D’Hoker (KU Leuven) joins us in collaboration with Professor Paul Delaney of Trinity’s School of English to work on their project ‘The Irish Short Story & The Dublin Magazine (1923-1958)’, drawing on the S. O’Sullivan E. Solomons Collection in the Manuscripts and Archives Department of Trinity College Library.
Professor Neil Michael Richards (Washington University St. Louis) will join the Trinity Long Room Hub in association with Dr Róisín Costello of Trinity’s School of Law for a project looking at ‘Toxic Trust: The Search for Loyalty in an Age of Betrayal.’
Professor Patrick Geoghegan, Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub said: “It’s great to see the calibre of visiting fellows joining us this coming academic year and the vast range of Arts and Humanities projects taking shape. We hope that many of the staff and researchers in our partner schools, the Library, and indeed across and beyond the university, will have a chance to engage and collaborate with these researchers during their fellowships.”