Biography
Brendan O'Connell holds a BA and PhD from Trinity College Dublin, and has been a lecturer in the School of English since 2006. His research and teaching interests focus on the poetry of 14th and 15th century England, in particular the works of Chaucer and the Gawain-poet. He also has a strong interest in the reception of medieval literature (Chaucer in particular) in the early modern period and in the 21st century.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Brendan O'Connell, Forging Classical and Medieval Temporalities in the Apocryphal Court of Love, South Atlantic Review, 90, (4), 2025, p160 - 178
South Atlantic Review, 90, 4, (2025), Sylvia Federico and Brendan O'Connell, [Co-editor, Special Issue: "Antique Temporalities: Late Medieval and Early Modern Classicism in England"]
Late Medieval and Early Modern English in, editor(s)Paul F. Bandia, James Hadley and Siobhán McElduff , Translation and the Classic, New York, Routledge, 2024, pp38 - 54, [Brendan O'Connell]
Brendan O'Connell, The Afterlives of Adam Scriveyn: Chaucer's Scribe in Dantes's Inferno, Ecdotica, 21, 2024, p231 - 245
'Beaten Down and Built Anew': Saint Erkenwald and Old St. Paul"s in, editor(s)Hannah M. Bailey, Karl Kinsella, and Daniel Thomas , Architectural Representation in Medieval Textual and Material Culture, Amsterdam, ARC Humanities Press, 2023, pp79 - 97, [Brendan O'Connell]
Brendan O'Connell and Alexandra Colby, Collaborative Teaching and Creative Assignments Using Contemporary Adaptation, New Chaucer Studies: Padagogy and Profession, 4, (2), 2023, p64 - 74
Brendan O'Connell, 'Think of All the Differences!': Mixed Marriages in Transcultural Adaptations of Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale', Adaptation, 15, (1), 2022, p7 - 21
Brendan O'Connell, ""Le Bone Florence of Rome": A Critical Edition and Facing Translation of a Middle English Romance Analogous to Chaucer's "Man of Law's Tale", Review of ""Le Bone Florence of Rome": A Critical Edition and Facing Translation of a Middle English Romance Analogous to Chaucer's "Man of Law's Tale", by Jonathan Stavsky , Medieval Feminist Forum, 55, (2), 2020, p212-14
Brendan O'Connell, Teaching Literary Responses to the Black Death During the COVID 19 Pandemic, All-Ireland Journal of Higher Education, 12, (2), 2020, p1 - 5
Chaucer's 'beast group' and 'Mother Hubberds Tale' in, editor(s)Rachel Stenner, Tamsin Badcoe and Gareth Griffith , Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2019, pp189 - 211, [Brendan O'Connell]
Brendan O'Connell, Putting the Plowman in His Place: Order and Genre in the Early Modern Canterbury Tales, Chaucer Review, 53, (4), 2018, p428 - 448
Brendan O'Connell, Chaucer's Decameron and the Origin of the "Canterbury Tales,, Review of Chaucer's Decameron and the Origin of the "Canterbury Tales,, by Frederick M. Biggs , Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 40, 2018, p447-50
Brendan O'Connell, David Aers, Beyond Reformation?, Review of Beyond Reformation?: An Essay on William Langland's Piers Plowman and the End of Constantinian Christianity, by David Aers , Spenser Review, 46, (1.5), 2016
The Erkenwald Poet in, editor(s)Elizabeth McCarthy and Bernice M. Murphy , Lost Souls of Horror and the Gothic: Fifty-Four Neglected Authors, Actors, Artists and Others, Jefferson, NC, McFarland and Company, 2016, pp76 - 79, [Brendan O'Connell]
Brendan O'Connell, Geoffrey Chaucer, Oxford Bibliographies in British and Irish Literature, 2016
O'Connell, Brendan, '"Struglyng Wel and Myghtily": Resisting Rape in the Man of Law's Tale', Medium Aevum, 84, (1), 2015, p16 - 39
Chaucer's Counterfeit Exempla in, editor(s)Cliodhna Carney and Frances McCormack , Chaucer's Poetry: Words, Authority and Ethics, Dublin, Four Courts, 2013, pp134 - 145, [Brendan O'Connell]
The Poetics of Fraud: Jean de Meun, Dante and Chaucer in, editor(s)Gerald Morgan , Chaucer in Context: A Golden Age of English Poetry, Bern, Peter Lang, 2012, pp261 - 278, [Brendan O'Connell]
Karen Hodder and Brendan O'Connell (eds), Transmission and Generation in Medieval and Renaissance Literature: Essays in Honour of John Scattergood, Dublin, Four Courts, 2012
Culture and Dispute in Dialogus de Scaccario in, editor(s)Karen Hodder and Brendan O'Connell , Transmission and Generation in Medieval and Renaissance Literature: Essays in Honour of John Scattergood, Dublin, Four Courts, 2012, pp52 - 64, [Brendan O'Connell]
O'Connell, Brendan, '''Adam Scriveyn" and the Falsifiers in Dante's Inferno: A New interpretation of Chaucer's "Wordes'", The Chaucer Review, 40, (i), 2005, p39 - 56
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
'Ignotum per ignocius': alchemy, analogy and poetics in Fragment VIII of the Canterbury Tales in, editor(s)Kathy Cawsey and Jason Harris , Transmission and Transformation in the Middle Ages: Texts and Contexts, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2007, pp131 - 156, [Brendan O'Connell]
Recognition
Memberships
New Chaucer Society
Early English Text Society
Piers Plowman Society
Hoccleve Society