Academic Writing Centre Tutors

Giorgia Conte (School of Economics)

Giorgia Conte is a PhD student in Economics. She uses quantitative methods to address questions related to family economics, public economics, demographic, and labour economics. She joined the Student Learning Development Centre as a Tutor in September 2021. Before starting her PhD program she worked in Frankfurt and Malta. She also lived in Barcelona, Milan and the United States during her studies.

Hannah Mathew (School of English)

Hannah Mathew is a PhD student in the School of English. Her research topic deals with the 1950s-1960s dystopian fiction; more specifically, the works of the British novelist, John Wyndham. She joined the Student Learning Development Centre as a Tutor in January 2021. Her past experience includes working as an Assistant Professor at Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi, India.

Katerina Zouboulakis (Department of the History of Art and Architecture and Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities)

Katerina Zouboulakis is a PhD researcher studying the visual culture of Met Éireann since its establishment in 1936. She is passionate about mitigating climate change and believes that education and communication are two cornerstones of meeting this challenge.

Larissa Brigatti (School of Creative Arts)

Larissa Brigatti is an Academic Writing Tutor for SLD. She has been a Trinity student since 2016 and completed a B.A .in Drama & Theatre Studies when she was awarded an European Excellence Award from TCD after presenting her undergraduate thesis at an international symposium with USP and UFRJ; an MPhil. in Film Studies - Screenwriting and she is currently a Ph.D. student also with the Film Department. She is currently working as a Lecturer at TUD and Tutor at UCD and TCD. 

Rebecca Easler (School of English)

Rebecca Easler is a final year PhD Student in the School of English at Trinity. Her project examines the intersection between eighteenth- and nineteenth-century constructions of childhood and death culture within the representations of child death in Charles Dickens's novels. She completed her Master's degree in Enlightenment, Romantic, and Victorian literature at the University of Edinburgh in 2017 and finished her BA at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota in 2014, where she worked as an undergraduate Writing Tutor for three years.

Seán Cahill (School of Biochemistry and Immunology)

Seán is a PhD student in the School of Biochemistry and Immunology. He completed his undergraduate degree in Human Health and Disease here at Trinity. His PhD research project aims to investigate the impact of Staphylococcus aureus exposure on innate immune training.