| Pre 2012 VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWS | ||
|---|---|---|
| Wolfgang Mueller-Funk | September-October 2012 |
Reading Joyce: Broch's Concept of Classical Modernism Wolfgang Mueller-Funk is Professor of Cultural Studies and Theory at the Dept of European and Comarative Literature at the University of Vienna and Director of Research at its Centre for Cultural Studies and Philologies. He has authored numerous books on cultural studies and Austrian literature(s), e.g. "Die Kultur und ihre Narrative", Einfuehrung in die Kulturtheorie" und "Komplex Oesterreich". Prof Mueller-Funk is probably the most prominent cultural theorist of Austria and a very renowned commentator in the national press. |
| Padhraig Higgins | August - December 2012 | The Rights of the Poor: Poverty and Everyday Life in Eighteenth-Century Dublin Padhraig Higgins is an Associate Professor of History at Mercer County College. He has published articles on the Volunteers, national identity, and the politics of gender in eighteenth century Ireland. His first book, A Nation of Politicians: Gender, Patriotism and Political Culture in Late Eighteenth-Century Ireland (University of Wisconsin Press, 2010), was awarded the Donald Murphy Prize from the American Conference for Irish Studies. He is currently an American Council of Learned Societies fellow and is working on the politics of poverty in eighteenth century Dublin. |
| Rafal Urbaniak | October-December 2012 | Mathematical existence, abstraction principles and real number theory Rafal Urbaniak obtained his PhD specializing in logic and philosophy of mathematics at the University of Calgary in Canada. He spent some time at Bristol University as a British Academy Visiting Fellow and as a Visiting Researcher at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi in India. Now, he is both an assistant professor at Gdansk University in Poland and a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders at the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Ghent University, Belgium. Apart from non-classical logics and philosophy of mathematics, he is interested in logical aspects of philosophical arguments, especially in the philosophy of religion. |
| Robert Savage | October-December 2012 | Screening ‘the Troubles’ the role of television in presenting conflict in Northern Ireland Robert Savage serves on the faculty of the Boston College Department of History. He has written widely on contemporary Irish history including the origins and evolution of television in the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland. His most recent book: A Loss of Innocence? Television and Irish Society 1960-1972 was awarded the 2010 James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize for Best Book in History and Social Sciences by the American Conference for Irish Studies. He served as a director of the Irish Studies program at Boston College from 1995-2010. Professor Savage returned to the Trinity Long Room Hub in May 2015 for the launch of his new publication The BBC's 'Irish Troubles' |
| Polly Ha | August 2012 | Pre-Revolutionary Puritanism: A Documentary History Polly Ha returned to the Trinity Long Room Hub in 2013-14. See details here |
| Martyn Powell | July - August 2012 | An Early History of Debt in Ireland Aberystwyth University |
| Sean Kennedy | June - July 2012 | St Mary's University |
| Honora Chapman | June - July 2012 | Companion to Josephus CSU Fresno |
| Donna Jo Napoli | May - July 2012 | Reading materials for deaf children Swarthmore College |
| Bryan Coleborne | May - June 2012 | A Critical Edition of the Poems of Matthew Pilkington University of Waikato |
| Francis Bremer | April - May 2012 | Visible Faith: Discerning the Godly in the Early Modern Atlantic World Millersville University |
| CS Richards | April - May 2012 | Space and Place in Irish Drama Staffordshire University |
| David Finkelstein | February - April 2012 | Irish Printers on the Move: The Transnational Circulation of Irish Typographical Union Personnel, 1850-1900 Queen Margaret University |
| Clare Guest | February -April 2012 | Poetics of the Italian Renaissance. An Annotated Handlist of the Collections of Trinity College Library, Dublin Trinity College Dublin |
| Maire Ni Mhaonaigh | January - April 2012 | A critical edition with commentary of the important Middle Irish text, Cogadh Gáedhel re Gallaibh ‘The War of the Irish against the Foreigners Cambridge |
| Eugenio Biagini | January - March 2012 | Religion and nationhood: the Southern Protestant minorities and the question of identity in Ireland, 1916-1966 Cambridge |
| Holly Rogers | January - February 2012 | Sounding the Gallery: Video and the Rise of Art-Music Liverpool University |
| John Wilson Foster | October - December 2011 | Nature in Ireland: A Scientific and Cultural History Queens University Belfast |
| Andrew Overman | October - November 2011 | Roman Galilee in the Context of the Roman East Macalester College |
| Paul Shore | Ocober - November 2011 | Jesuits and Muslims on the Eastern Periphery of Catholic Europe, 1640-1773 Independent Scholar |
