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'The Edinburgh Companion to W. B. Yeats and the Arts' edited by Prof Charles I. Armstrong, Dr Adrian Paterson, and Associate Professor Tom Walker has been published.The first book to comprehensively address Yeats’s engagements across the arts as both writer and cultural worker. The book includes detailed case studies which capture the complex history of Yeats as an inter-arts thinker and collaborator.
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Congratulations to Dr Bernice M. Murphy who has been awarded the 2024 award for best scholarly monograph on the American Gothic by the Society for the Study of the American Gothic.The book in question was 'The California Gothic in Fiction and Film', which was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2022. More information at the link!
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Wandering Books - 4 Fully Funded PhDs on Early Medieval Manuscripts at Trinity College DublinWandering Books seeks to address the challenge of better localising manuscripts. It brings together a geneticist (Prof. Dan Bradley), a manuscript specialist (Dr Nicole Volmering), an intellectual historian (Dr Immo Warntjes) and a historical linguist (Dr Mark Faulkner) to supervise between them four PhDs taking distinct methodological approaches to the same corpus of manuscripts deriving from early medieval Britain and Ireland: one hunting the animals whose skins made the manuscripts, one tracing the techniques used to assemble the skins into a book and write it, another tracking the texts it contains as they diffused across Europe, and a fourth listening for the languages the manuscript contains.
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Professor Aileen Douglas and Emeritus Professor Ian Campbell Ross publish a new, scholarly edition of Oliver Goldsmith’s 'The Vicar of Wakefield'.Congratulations to Professor Aileen Douglas and Emeritus Professor Ian Campbell Ross on the publication of the inaugural volume of the projected 8-volume 'Collected Works of Oliver Goldsmith' to be published by Cambridge University Press 2024-28.
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A wise and gentle spirit - Trinity pays tribute to Gerald DaweIt is with deep sadness that the College community has learned of the death of distinguished poet, writer and colleague Professor Gerald Dawe.
Following a successful run in Edinburgh in 2015, Kate Perry, graduate of the M.Phil in Creative Writing 2011, is now...
Posted by The School of English, Trinity College Dublin on Tuesday, April 5, 2016
The Evening Lecture Series on Literature and Revolutions continues on Tuesday 22 March with Professor Chris Morash's...
Posted by The School of English, Trinity College Dublin on Friday, 18 March 2016