Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin

Nicole Volmering

Research Assistant Professor

My main research interests centre on the manuscript culture and religious literature of the insular world, particularly medieval Irish martyrologies, eschatology, transmission of books and texts, and palaeography. I am currently Principal Investigator of the SFI-IRC Pathway Programme project "Early Irish Hands: The Development of Writing in Early Ireland" (2022-27), a project which investigates the development of book production and writing techniques in the earliest Irish manuscripts. I am also PI of CLÓSCAPE (2024-5), which is a pilot project looking at the use of the gaelic typeface in the streetscape. And finally, I am co-PI of Wandering Books, which is an interdisciplinary project looking at the methodologies for localising manuscripts. As of 2023, I am Trinity Centre for the Book Strand Leader for the History of Writing.

Finally, in addition to manuscript-based research, I work on Irish martyrologies and Irish religious literature more broadly and I occasionally work on the history of Irish education.

I previously worked as Assistant Professor in the School of Education and held funded fellowships in both Ireland and Germany, including an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Irish and Celtic Languages, Trinity College Dublin, an O'Donovan Scholarship at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, and an IKGF fellowship at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität in Erlangen. I obtained my PhD in Early and Medieval Irish from University College Cork as De Finibus Fellow. My dissertation won the Johann Kaspar Zeuss prize.

Teaching and supervision:

I supervise PhD and MPhil theses in medieval history and I teach palaeography and manuscript studies on the M.Phil in Medieval Studies. I have taught a range of medieval history, literature, and language modules at Trinity as well as the universities of Cork and Maynooth. In addition, I have an interest in Higher Education (history and pedagogy) and regularly teach T&L practices.