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Resident Scholars

Terms and Conditions for HI Resident 
Postgraduates & Postdoctoral Fellows

  1. Residency at the Humanities Institute is subject to the fulfilment of the T&C. Failure to comply may result in the revocation of residency.
  2. HI residencies will not normally exceed 4 years (PhD students), 2 years (postdoctoral fellows) unless special circumstances justify an extension. 
  3. Regular attendance at HI events is required. An email will be sent highlighting these events. These include the HI lunchtime seminar series and the annual HI Distinguished Guest Lecture.
  4. Residents must sign in when they are working at the HI (Mon-Fri). There is a sign in sheet in the lobby. These are used for audit purposes regarding space usage in UCD. Sheets will only be kept for one academic year and will then be destroyed.
  5. The main door of the HI has an access system in place. This is deactivated from 8am to 6pm Monday to Friday. At weekends and out of hours (6pm - 8am) residents need their UCD staff or student cards to access the building. These cards can be registered for this purpose in the HI admin office (H.004). These details will be removed from the access system once a resident has vacated their desk.
  6. All resident scholars must notify the HI office ((opens in a new window)humanities@ucd.ie) about any absences in excess of two weeks. Absences require a justified reason (research trips to archives, conference attendance, family emergencies, illness etc.).
  7. All residents will be added to our various mailing lists for news, events and general information. Names are removed from these lists when residents vacate their desk.


Postgraduates

All postgraduates are expected to contribute to the life of the Humanities Institute in an active capacity. Specifically, they are required to:

  • maintain a regular presence at the Institute. 
  • actively contribute to the Annual HI PhD conference. This can be achieved in different ways:  resident scholars can form the organising committee, present a paper or chair sessions. Conference attendance is mandatory for all resident postgraduates.
  • notify Institute administration if they are unable to attend HI events. Apologies via email should provide a reason for any absence (e.g. conference attendance, research trips, teaching commitments, family emergencies, or illness).  
  • please acknowledge the Humanities Institute support in their PhD thesis.


Postdoctoral Fellows

All postgraduates are expected to contribute to the life of the Humanities Institute in an active capacity. Specifically, they are required to:

  • maintain a regular presence at the Institute. 
  • present a paper at the HI lunchtime seminar series.
  • notify Institute administration if they are unable to attend HI events. Apologies via email should provide a reason for any absence (e.g. conference attendance, research trips, teaching commitments, family emergencies, or illness).  

Resident postdoctoral fellows are invited to run a workshop, symposium, training session or reading group for the HI research community during their stay.


House Rules

  • Research space in the HI is for the use of residents only. 
  • Never give your swipe card or office key to anyone. 
  • Research offices are considered quiet rooms and respect for others should be considered at all times. Therefore:

    • mobile phones should be turned off/to silent
    • discussions and meetings (in person and online) should take place either in the communal areas or in the seminar room which can be booked by (opens in a new window)humanities@ucd.ie
    • researchers are requested not to eat meals at their workstation

  • The shared kitchen on the first floor should be kept clean and tidy at all times. Cleaning staff do not clean the kitchens.
  • Accepting desk space at the UCD Humanities Institute is acknowledging that you will abide by the terms and conditions above.
  • Please note the HI Green Policy.



Postdoctoral Fellows

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Dr Catherine Ann Cullen

School: English, Drama and Film
Mentors: Dr Lucy Collins (Academic); Dr Jane O’Hanlon, Education Officer, Poetry Ireland (Enterprise Partnership)

After Zozimus: Reclaiming Lost Street Poets and Tenement Balladeers of !9th Century Dublin

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Dr Francesco Milella

School: Music
Mentor: Dr Tomás McAuley

Opera, Enlightenment and empire in late-colonial Mexico

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Dr Alborz Dianat

School: Art History and Cultural Policy
Principal Investigator: Prof. Kathleen James-Chakraborty

Expanding Agency: Women, Race, and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture

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Dr Rhona Jamieson

School: School of English, Drama and Film
Mentor: Dr Adam Kelly

'The Far Right and the Future: The Narratives of NeoReaction'

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Dr Silvia Ivani

School: School of Philosophy
Mentor: Prof. Maria Baghramian

Challenges in public engagement and science communication: The philosophy of fruitful interactions

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Dr Ciaran Rua O'Neill

School: School of Art History and Cultural Policy
Mentor: Prof Lynda Mulvin

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship: Visualising Hibernia, c.1770 - c.1930

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Dr Verity Burke

School: English, Drama and Film
Mentors: Prof. John Brannigan; Prof. Tasman Crowe

Research Fellowship: John Pollard Newman Fellowship in Climate Change and the Arts

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Dr George Francis-Kelly

School: Art History and Cultural Policy
Principal Investigator: Prof. Kathleen James-Chakraborty

‘Expanding Agency: Women, Race, and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture’ (European Research Council)

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Dr Tim Groenland

School: English, Drama and Film
Mentor: Prof. Margaret Kelleher

The Publishing Infrastructures of Contemporary Anglophone Literature

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Dr Carline Klijnman

School: School of Philosophy
Mentor: Prof. Maria Baghramian

When Citizens Don’t Know Whom to Believe: Failures in the Testimonial Exchange of Political Information and Its Implications for Epistemic Democracy

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Dr Matt Prout

School: English, Drama and Film
Mentor: Dr Adam Kelly

Thinking and Living in Contemporary Autofiction

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Dr Orlaith Darling

School: School of Education
Mentor: Dr Áine Mahon

Ignorance and bliss: Higher education and mental ill health in contemporary literary
culture

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Dr Ge (Gigi) Tang

School: School of English, Drama and Film
Mentor: Dr Sarah Comyn

Extractive Infrastructures, Affective Mapping, and Chinese Miners in Southern Settler Colonies in the Long Nineteenth Century

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Dr Claire Brophy

School: English, Drama and Film
Mentor: Professor Gerardine Meaney

ERC Advanced Grant, VICTEUR: European Migrants in the British Imagination: Victorian and Neo-Victorian Culture

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Dr Katie Mishler

School: English, Drama and Film
Mentor: Professor Gerardine Meaney

ERC Advanced Grant, VICTEUR: European Migrants in the British Imagination: Victorian and Neo-Victorian Culture

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Dr Tapasya Narang

School: English, Drama and Film
Mentors: Dr. Lucy Collins (UCD) and Eoin McCarney (National Library of Ireland)

Radical Poetics: A Comparative Study of Small Press Productions from Dublin and Bombay, 1960-1980

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PhD Students

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Clare Ní Cheallaigh

School: English, Drama and Film
Supervisor: Dr Sarah Comyn

Material Tales: African Storyteller-Authors in the Literary Marketplace

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Maika Nguyen (Chi Nguyen Mai)

School: Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Supervisor: Prof. Mary Gallagher

Writing Home? Haiti and Vietnam in Postcolonial Autofiction in French

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Thinley Chodon

School: English, Drama and Film
Supervisor: Dr Treasa De Loughry

Worlding Contemporary Tibetan Writings of the Global Tibetan Diaspora and Exiles: Exploring Language, Resistance and Tibetanness

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Mathieu Bokestael

School: English, Drama and Film
Supervisor: Dr Treasa De Loughry

Reading Immunofiction: Caring Communities and the Immunitary Unconscious in Contemporary Scottish Writing

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Phoebe O'Leary

School: English, Drama and Film
Supervisors: Dr Paul Halferty and Prof. Emilie Pine

Ephemeral Acts, Enduring Memories: HIV/AIDS and the Performance of Cultural Memory

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Teddy Power

School: English, Drama and Film
Supervisors: Assoc Professor Jorie Lagerwey & Assoc Professor Sharae Deckard

The Progressive Fantastic: Race, Gender, Sexuality and the Evolution of Transmedia Fantasy 2010-2021

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Poulomi Choudhury

School: English, Drama and Film
Supervisor: Dr Sharae Deckard

Fleshy Food Resources of the Future

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Alexander Kroll

School: English, Drama and Film
Supervisor: Dr. Adam Kelly

Social Trust and the Small Town in 21st-Century Irish and American Fiction

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Katie Donnelly

School: English, Drama and Film
Supervisor: Dr Sarah Comyn

Colonial Childhood: Labour Regimes and Goldmining in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Children’s Literature

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Lucas Dijker

School: Philosophy
Supervisor: Prof. Maria Baghramian

The Authority of Knowledge: How to Reconcile Experts with Democracy

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Pooja Sastry

School: Art History and Cultural Policy
Supervisor: Dr Róisín Kennedy

“The Chemist in the Kitchen”: modernist spatial imaginaries in 1930s periodicals

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Caleb O’Connor

School: English Drama and Film
Supervisor: Dr Treasa De Loughry

Queering Urban Ecologies: Rewilding, Rehabilitation, and Resistance in Contemporary Indigenous Queer Eco-Poetics

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Nokubekezela Mchunu

School: Art History and Cultural Policy
Supervisor: Prof. Kathleen James-Chakraborty

Relative Modernisms: The Designed Domestic Lives of the Mid-Century African Upper Classes

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Evie Filea

School: Philosophy
Supervisor: Dr Lisa Foran

A Comparative Analysis of the Notions of Freedom and Imagination in Martin Heidegger and Edward Bond (provisional title)

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M. Agnese Casellato

School: Philosophy
Supervisor: Prof. Maria Baghramian

Linguistic Reference: Descriptivism, Externalism and a Middle Course

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William Perry

School: School of English, Drama and Film
Supervisor: Prof. Jane Grogan

Travel and Transculturality: Centring Isfahan in Early Modern Travel Writing and Drama

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