Dr Vanessa Iaccocca
School: School of English, Drama and Film
Mentor: Prof. Porscha Fermanis
Ossianic Medievalisms: Dialogic Nation-Building and a Tradition of Invention in the British Isles, 1760-1921
Resident Scholars
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr James Little
School: School of English, Drama and Film
Mentor: Prof. Emilie Pine
CONFINED - Mapping Literary Representations of Coercive Confinement in Ireland, from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present.
Dr George Francis-Kelly
School: School of Art History and Cultural Policy
Principal Investigator: Professor Kathleen James-Chakraborty
‘Expanding Agency: Women, Race, and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture’ (European Research Council)
Dr Jivitesh Vashisht
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Dr Kyle Kaplan
School: Music
Mentors: Dr Tomás McAuley; Prof. Brian O'Connor
Intimate Critique: Henze, Adorno, and the Aesthetics of Recommitment
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Dr Chloe Green
School: School of English, Drama and Film
Mentor: Dr Katherine Fama
Labour Pains: Illness and the Contemporary Workplace Novel
PhD Students
Mike Norris
School: Classics
Supervisor: Dr Aude Doody
Cosmology and Christology in the 4th century Latin west
Marty Gilroy
School: English, Drama and Film
Supervisor: Dr Sharae Deckard
Reading the World City: New York, London and the Capitalist World-System in the Contemporary Post-Crash Novel
Neha Kamrani
School: English, Drama & Film
Supervisor: Dr Emilie Pine
Representations of Sexual Violence in Contemporary Irish and Indian Theatre
Louisa Carroll
Supervisor: Prof. John Brannigan
School: English, Drama and Film
‘Something in the Water’: An Ecocritical and Psychogeographical Investigation of the Relationship between 20th and 21st century Irish Writers and the Grand Canal
Priscilla Sonnier
School: Art History and Cultural Policy
Supervisor: Nicola Figgis
Noble Nubility: Fashionable Fantasies and Fictions in Eighteenth-Century Britain Research
Susan Mihalik
Supervisor: Dr Emily Mark-Fitzgerald
School: Art History and Cultural Policy
Advancing equity: using a social justice framework to understand the agency of government cultural administrators
Annie Khabaza
School: English, Drama and Film
Supervisor: Professor Jane Grogan
“Barely English”: Richard Stanihurst, Edmund Spenser, and the remaking of Virgil in early modern Ireland
Suchismita Dattagupta
School: School of English Drama and Film
Supervisor: Dr. Katherine Fama and Dr. Maria Stuart
Reading Hair as a Symbol of Resistance among African American Women Authors from 1920s-1970s
Clare Ní Cheallaigh
School: English, Drama & Film
Supervisor: Dr Sarah Comyn
Material Tales: African Storyteller-Authors in the Literary Marketplace
Lauren Cassidy
School: School of English, Drama and Film
Supervisor: Professor Gerardine Meaney
Gender, Sovereignty and the Changing Nation: The Irish Feminist Novel, 1963-2023
Prolet Decheva
School: School of Art History and Cultural Policy
Supervisor: Dr Sean Leatherbury
Personifications of abstract ideas in Late Antique and Middle Byzantine Art
Maika Nguyen (Chi Nguyen Mai)
School: School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Supervisor: Professor Mary Gallagher
Writing Home? Haiti and Vietnam in Postcolonial Autofiction in French
Séamus Nolan
School: School of Art History and Cultural Policy
Supervisor: Dr Róisín Kennedy
Modalities of participation and spectatorship: a practice based enquiry into discourses and methodologies of participation and spectatorship in contemporary visual art museums
Harriet Idle
School: English, Drama and Film
Supervisor: Dr Martha Shearer
Globalisation, Urban Space, and the Contemporary Romantic Comedy
Pooja Sastry
School: School of Art History and Cultural Policy
Supervisor: Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Fables & Freedoms: The shaping of the built environment by women
Thinley Chodon
School: School of English, Drama & Film
Supervisor: Dr Treasa De Loughry
Worlding Contemporary Tibetan Writings of the Global Tibetan Diaspora and Exiles: Exploring Language, Resistance and Tibetanness
Lucas Dijker
School: School of Philosophy
Supervisor: Prof. Maria Baghramian
The Authority of Knowledge: How to Reconcile Experts with Democracy
Caleb O’Connor
School: School of English Drama and Film
Supervisor: Dr Treasa De Loughry
Queering Urban Ecologies: Rewilding, Rehabilitation, and Resistance in Contemporary Indigenous Queer Eco-Poetics
Kelly Louise Rexzy Agra
School: School of Philosophy
Supervisor: Professor Maeve Cooke
Epistemic Paralysis
Jaclyn Allen
School: School of English, Drama and Film
Supervisor: Dr. Lucy Collins
Between the Page and the World: English and Irish Women Poets, 1930-1950
Zexun Zhang
School: School of Art History and Cultural Policy
Supervisor: Dr Victoria Durrer
The Reshaping of Hong Kong Culture after 1997: Constructing the West Kowloon Cultural District
Nokubekezela Mchunu
School: School of Art History and Cultural Policy
Supervisor: Prof. Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Relative Modernisms: The Designed Domestic Lives of the Mid-Century African Upper Classes
M. Agnese Casellato
School: School of Philosophy
Supervisor: Professor Maria Baghramian
Linguistic Reference: Descriptivism, Externalism and a Middle Course
Jacob Miller
School: School of English, Drama and Film
Supervisors: Dr Sharae Deckard & Dr Adam Kelly
Hauntology: Neoliberalism and Alienation in Anglo-American Fiction, 1980 to the Present
Evie Filea
School: UCD School of Philosophy
Supervisor: Dr Lisa Foran
A Comparative Analysis of the Notions of Freedom and Imagination in Martin Heidegger and Edward Bond (provisional title)