2024-25 Visiting Research Fellows

VRF	Institution	Visit	Project Title	Academic Partner
Professor Chris Danta	School of Cybernetics, Australia National University	September 2024	Humanities and Cybernetics	Prof Chris Morash, School of English
Professor Ronan McDonald	University of Melbourne	October 2024; Spring 2025	Critical Attention: Neurohumanities, Close-Reading and the Distraction Economy.	Prof Chris Morash, School of English & Prof Shane O'Mara, Neuroscience
Dr Mark O’Connell	Rooney Writer Fellow	September – December 2024	'The Knife', a new book about the German rocket engineer Wernher von Braun.
Professor Emerita Joanna Bourke	Birbeck, University of London	October – November 2024	Sexual Violence in Ireland, c.1830s-1914	Prof Jane Ohlmeyer, School of Histories and Humanities
Dr Shreya Atrey	Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Oxford	September – November 2024	Is Racism Beyond Judicial Review?	Prof Mark Bell, School of Law
Professor Anthony Caleshu	University of Plymouth, UK	November 2024	The Twilight of Idles, a new book of poetry, which explores parenthood and childhood, with particular interest in thinking about how adult’s teach their children.	Prof Philip Coleman, School of English
Dr Yousry Elseadawy	Freie Universitaet Berlin	September – December 2024	History of Literary Manuscripts in Chester Beaty Library approached through their manuscript notes	Dr Anna McSweeney, School of Histories and Humanities & Dr Moyra Carey, Chester Beatty Library
Professor Francis Leneghan	University of Oxford	November – December 2024	Books Most Necessary: A New Literary History of Old English Prose	Dr Alice Jorgensen, School of English
Dr Bruce Shapiro	University of Columbia	January - June 2025	TBC	TBC
Dr Nina Lamal	Huygens Instituut, The Netherlands	February – March 2025	The Fagel Collection as a Tool of Statecraft	Dr Mark Faulkner, School of English
Dr Valmont Layne	University of Western Cape	March - June 2025	TBC	Centre for Humanities Research
Professor Susan Pedersen	University of Columbia	April 2025	Gerald and Betty Balfour in Ireland, 1895-1900
Dr Piotr Wciślik	Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk (IBL PAN)	April – May 2025	Fostering collaboration in digital humanities and resistance studies: towards data-rich history of unlicensed print culture in Poland	Dr Krzystof Rowiński, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies
Dr Agnieszka Helman-Ważny	University of Hamburg	May 2025	Survey of the Irish collections of Asian highland manuscripts	Prof Nathan Hill, School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences
Professor Emeritus John O’Brien	Durham University	May 2025	La Boétie in Early Modern Europe: The Role of the Fagel Collection	Prof Sarah Alyn-Stacey, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies

Trinity Long Room Hub Emeritus Fellows

Name	School Affiliation	Project Title
Prof David Dickson	School of Histories and Humanities, TCD	The Moore Letters Project, a major editorial project of some 800 letters from members of the Moore and Hughes families based in Derry and Baltimore, spanning the years 1788 to 1845.
Prof Eunan O’Halpin	School of Histories and Humanities, TCD	Preparing two monographs Neighbours from Hell: Afghanistan and the Second World War Belligerents, 1933-1947 and An Island at War: Ireland 1922-23