Open Call: The O’Mahony Visiting Research Fellowship in Music 2025/2026

With thanks to the generosity of Rosemary O’Mahony, the Trinity Long Room Hub is delighted to introduce a three-month funded fellowship dedicated to music and music-related research, awarded annually on a competitive basis.

The O’Mahony Visiting Research Fellowship in Music will be open internationally to musicologists, music theorists, textual scholars, music technologists and composers with a strong record of research and/or creative output.

Applicants will be invited to propose a project in collaboration with a nominated academic partner from the Department of Music and/or other Trinity Arts and Humanities departments. For details, please click here.

2025-26 Visiting Research Fellows

Name

University

Date

Project title

Academic partner

Dr Ikuya Aizawa

University of Nottingham 

 

Inclusive knowledge production in English medium instruction: Reassessing linguistic hegemony in history education 

Prof Rowland Anthony Imperial, School of Linguistics, Speech, and Communication Sciences

Prof James Chandler

University of Chicago 

 

Figures in a Field: Wordsworth and Edgeworth 

Prof Amy Prendergast, School of English

Dr Anna Deeny Morales

Georgetown University 

 

Home Come Home

Evangelia Rigaki & Nicole Grimes, School of Creative Arts

Dr Veronika Jičínská 

University of Jan Evangelista Purkyne 

 

Joking as Translation in Sigmund Freud’s Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious 

Dr Clemens Ruthner, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies

Prof Neil Michael Richards

Washington University St. Louis 

 

Toxic Trust: The Search for Loyalty in an Age of Betrayal 

Priof Roisin Costello, School of Law

Prof Elizabeth Solopova 

Oxford

 

Medieval Vernacular Bibles as Unity, Diversity and Conflict 

Dr Mark Faulkner, Trinity Centre for the Book

Dr Matthew Greg Sullivan

University of York

 

Contested Histories: the sculpture of Christ Church Cathedral re-examined 

Dr Christine Casey, School of Histories and Humanities

Dr Jacob Thaisen 

University of Oslo

 

Index of Middle English Prose: MSS in Edinburgh Repository 

Dr Mark Faulkner, School of English

 

Dr Secil Yilmaz 

 

University of Pennsylvania 

 

Biopolitical Empire: Syphilis, Medicine, and Sex in the Late Ottoman World 

Dr Ramazan Hakki Oztan, School of Histories and Humanities

Prof Christiana Zenner

Fordham University 

 

Waters, Sediments, and Entangled Anthropocene Ethics 

Dr Jacob Erikson, School of Religion, Theology and Peace Studies

Prof Sharon Marcus

Columbia University  

 

A new theory of the bildungsroman, or coming-of-age novel 

Prof Eve Patten, School of English

Dr Fearghus Roulston

University of Strathclyde

 

History, temporality and the Troubles, 1969-1998 

Dr Carole Holohan, School of Histories and Humanities

Eoghan Carrick Rough Magic Fellow   TBC Rough Magic Theatre Company

Trinity Long Room Hub Emeritus Fellows

Name School Affiliation Project Title

Prof David Dickson

School of Histories and Humanities, TCD

The Moore Letters Project, a major editorial project of some 800 letters from members of the Moore and Hughes families based in Derry and Baltimore, spanning the years 1788 to 1845.

Prof Eunan O’Halpin School of Histories and Humanities, TCD Preparing two monographs Neighbours from Hell: Afghanistan and the Second World War Belligerents, 1933-1947 and An Island at War: Ireland 1922-23