Current Postgraduate students
Each year the School hosts a number of fully funded postdoctoral researchers, who pursue an independent research project while being supported by a mentor from within the School. Postdocs are fully integrated into the research community of the School and the university and avail of our excellent research facilities.
The funding and scholarships webpage provides information regarding funding for postdoctoral programmes within the School.
Meet our current PhD students:
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Andrea Bergantino
Andrea Bergantino achieved his BA and MA in Modern Languages and Literatures (English and German) at the University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy. Both his undergraduate and postgraduate studies pivoted on literature and translation.
Andrea worked as Italian language assistant in two secondary schools in Dublin in the school year 2019/20 and has translated academic texts about Corpus Translation Studies and philosophy of right.
After his experience in Dublin, Andrea decided to start his PhD at Trinity College Dublin. His research focuses on the interplay between literature and translation, literary portrayals of translators and the thematization of translation.
Email: berganta@tcd.ie
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Conor Brennan
Conor Brennan is a PhD candidate in the Department of German. His project compares aesthetic responses to the Anthropocene in the novels of Christoph Ransmayr, Olga Tokarczuk and Richard Flanagan. As a reference point in 20th-century modernity, the project also draws on the works of Franz Kafka, to whom all three writers frequently allude.
More broadly, Conor’s research interests include contemporary Austrian writing, theories of comparative literature and intersections of philosophy and fiction. He teaches on the year-long module ‘Introduction to German Literature & Film’.
Conor holds a BA in German & English Literature from TCD and an MSt in German from the University of Oxford, where he was an Ertegun Scholar. His doctoral project is funded by the Irish Research Council.
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Gianluca Caccialupi
Gianluca Caccialupi is PhD student in Italian at Trinity College Dublin. His project, funded by the Irish Research Council (2019-2023), focuses on the relationship between the "Divine Comedy" and the French prose romance "La Queste del Saint Graal", and more generally on Dante’s reception of Arthurian literature.
He holds a Master’s Degree in Italian Studies from the University of Bologna (2018) and a joint Bachelor’s Degree in Modern Literature (Italian-French) from the University of Bologna and the University of Upper Alsace (2015).
Gianluca previously worked on the theme of the crusades in the "Divine Comedy" and on Wace’s "Roman de Brut". His main areas of interest include: Medieval Italian Literature, Medieval French Literature, Romance Philology, Medieval History.
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Alexandra Corey
Alexandra is a third-year PhD Student and TA in the Department of French, supervised by Dr Sarah Alyn Stacey and sponsored by the 1252 Studentship Award. She has a BA in English Literature from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and an MPhil in Comparative Literature (Hons) from Trinity College Dublin.
Her doctoral thesis focuses on establishing a biography of Emmanuel-Philibert de Pingon (1525-1582): a poet, historiographer and diplomat at the court of Savoy, as well as a critical edition of his poetry. Her current research concerns politics at the courts of early modern France and Savoy, reception theory, intertextuality and influence.
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Benjamin Errington
Benjamin has an interest in German Early Romanticism, Late Enlightenment philosophy and Musical Aesthetics. He is also an accomplished musician and plays as a freelancer with the National Symphony Orchestra and other ensembles.
With a strong background in continental philosophy, Benjamin is currently researching notions of timbre in the late Eighteenth Century, a project that spans Germanic studies, Music History and the History of Philosophy. Principal supervisor: Jürgen Barkhoff.
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Thomas Hedley
Thomas is a PhD student in the Department of German under the supervision of Dr Caitríona Leahy. Thomas graduated from Trinity College Dublin, where he studied German and mathematics, and completed his MA at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena with the support of a DAAD Scholarship in 2019.
His current research compares the representation of space in aesthetic modernism and a field often considered separate to cultural production, namely mathematics, which experienced its own “modernism” around 1900. This project is supported by the Irish Research Council. He is also a teaching assistant for first-year German literature.
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Danielle Leblanc
Born in New Brunswick, on Canada's East coast, Danielle LeBlanc completed an MPhil in Literary Translation at Trinity College Dublin in 2018 and is currently enrolled as a PhD candidate researching French-Canadian translations with a focus on Acadian translators.
Prior to her MPhil, she spent several years as the Executive Director of the Frye Festival, an annual bilingual literary festival in Atlantic Canada. She now oversees the Festival's English programming, sits on the Board of Directors of Éditions Perce-Neige and edits their Littoral collection, and is Translations Editor of The Antigonish Review.
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Ariana Malthaner
Ariana is originally from Canada, where she received her undergraduate degree with a specialist in Celtic Studies from the University of Toronto. Following her passion for the medieval version of the Irish language, she came to Trinity where she completed the M.Phil in Early Irish and where she is currently undertaking her PhD.
The focus of her research is synchronic language variation in Old Irish, focusing specifically on the Old Irish glosses of Milan, St. Gall and Würzburg. Her research interests extend far beyond philology and into mythology, paleography, codicology, medieval medical practices, and depictions of dragons, to name a few.
She previously taught for Uppsala Universitat and is currently teaching for the Irish department here at Trinity.
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Brianán Ní Bhuachalla
Is mac léinn PhD í Brianán i Roinn na Gaeilge agus na dTeangacha Ceilteacha. Bhain sí céim amach sa Luath- agus Nua-Ghaeilge i gColáiste na Tríonóide sa bhliain 2020. Baineann a cuid taighde le ‘Eachtra an Cheithearnaigh Chaoilriabhaigh’, téacs próis ó thréimhse na Nua-Ghaeilge Moiche. Tá sí ag obair ar eagrán criticiúil den téacs agus ar aistriúchán Béarla, chomh maith le cur síos ar theanga agus ar chomhthéacs an scéil agus plé ar thraidisiún lámhscríbhinní an téacs.
Brianán is a PhD student in the Department of Irish and Celtic Languages. She completed her undergraduate degree in Early and Modern Irish at Trinity College Dublin in 2020. Her research focuses on ‘Eachtra an Cheithearnaigh Chaoilriabhaigh’, a prose text from the Early Modern Irish period. She is working on a new critical edition and English translation of the text, a linguistic and literary analysis of the tale and a commentary on the text’s manuscript transmission.
Email: bnibhuac@tcd.ie