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Current PhD researchers in Classics
For guidance on how to join our research community, see our Postgraduate options in Classics page.
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Student |
Project title |
Supervisor(s) |
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A descriptive and analytical catalogue of Latin glossing in Irish manuscripts |
Research Ireland Laureate Scholarship (2022–2026) |
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An 'Irish' Reference Bible: A Source Analysis of Pauca problesmata de enigmatibus ex tomis canonicis |
University of Galway Hardiman Research Scholarship (2023–2027) | ||
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The Faerie Queene and the discourse of ethnogenesis in Elizabethan England and Ireland: Edmund Spenser's poetic undermining of narratives of Antiquity in relation to the world-picture of his own time |
Prof. Michael Clarke and Dr Clíodhna Carney (English) |
University of Galway Hardiman Research Scholarship (2021–2025) |
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| The Poetics of Foresight: Assessing the Communicative Function of Figurative Imagery in Prophecy and Prediction Texts from the Neo-Assyrian Period of Ancient Mesopotamian Textual Culture | Prof. Michael Clarke
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University of Galway Hardiman Research Scholarship (2023–2024), Research Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship (2024–2027) | |
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The Letters of St Paul in Early Irish Christianity |
University of Galway Hardiman Research Scholarship (2024-2028) |
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Regionalism and Diversification in Seventh-Century Visigothic Latinity: A Sociolinguistic Approach |
Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship (2018–2022) |
Completed PhD projects
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Graduate |
Project title |
Supervisor(s) |
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Dr Paula Harrison (2025) |
A singular De diuisionibus temporum and the manuscript Laon, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS 422 |
Irish Research Council Laureate Scholarship (2018–2022) |
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Dr Francesca Guido (2025) |
Towards a System of Rules: Charisius’ De Analogia as a Witness of Continuity and Re-functionalisation in Latin Grammatical Discourse between Antiquity and the Middle Ages |
NUIG Digital Arts and Humanities Scholarship (2019–2020), Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship (2021–2023) |
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Dr Erin McKinney (2024) |
Linguistic Code-Switching in Bethu Brigte, the Old Irish Life of St Brigit |
Dr Jacopo Bisagni |
NUIG Hardiman Scholarship (2017–2018), Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship (2018–2021) |
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Dr Maria Chiara Marzolla (2024) |
Music and the Early Irish Church |
Dr Jacopo Bisagni (and Prof. Cesarino Ruini, Bologna) |
Galway Doctoral Scholarship (2018–2022) |
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Dr Mary Sweeney (2023) |
Master of Two Nations: Examining Hellenistic Judean Identity in the Exagoge of Ezekiel |
Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship (2018–2022) |
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Dr Noémi Farkas (2023) |
Constructing the Good King: Biblical Exempla in Sedulius Scottus' De Rectoribus Christianis |
Galway Doctoral Fellowship (2017–2021) |
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Dr Harry Tanner (2023) |
Ancient Greek Lexical Semantics: Word Meanings as a Function of Contex |
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Dr Grace Attwood (2022) |
Describing the Indescribable: Lexical Obscurity and Biblical Exegesis in Early Medieval Ireland |
Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship (2017–2021) |
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Dr Ioannis Doukas (2022) |
A Trojan Cycle for Late Antiquity: Towards a Digital Intertextual Commentary |
NUIG Digital Arts and Humanities Scholarship (2014–2018) |
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Dr Micheál Geoghegan (2021) |
Man the Tamer: case studies in masculine ideology, power and the domestication of the wild in Ancient Greek social thought |
Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship (2016–2020) |
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Dr Charles Doyle (2018) |
Studies in the Latin Christian reception of early Greek materialism |
Galway Doctoral Fellowship (2014–2015), Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship (2015–2018) |
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Dr Jason O’Rorke (2017) |
Voice of Ancients: An examination of verbal diathesis and its didactic practices in Latin grammars from Late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages |
NUIG College of Arts (2010–2011), Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship (2011–2014) |
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Dr Sarah Corrigan (2017) |
The sea in early medieval Hiberno-Latin and latinate literature: Cosmological problem and imaginative resource |
NUIG College of Arts (2009–2011), Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship (2011–2013) |
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Dr Peter Kelly (2016) |
Synthesizing identity and text in Ovid’s Metamorphoses |
NUIG Hardiman Fellowship, Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship |
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Dr Adelia Greer (2015) |
Xenophon and the ancient Greek cavalry horse: an equestrian perspective |
NUIG College of Arts |
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Dr Francesca Bezzone (2013) |
Deconstructing the Man, creating the Saint: The literary sanctification of Saint Germanus in the Vita Germani Auctore Constantio |
Dr Mark Stansbury |
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Dr Emmet Marron (2012) |
In His Silvis Silere: The Monastic Site of Annegray—Studies in a Columbanian Landscape. |
Dr Mark Stansbury (and Dr Conor Newman, Archaeology) |
PRTLI 4 |
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Dr Eóin O'Donoghue (2011) |
Remember me when I am gone away: An examination of the representation of gender in the material culture of archaic Etruria |
NUIG College of Arts |
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Palimpsests of Antigone: Contemporary Irish versions of Sophocles’ tragedy |
Prof. Brian Arkins |
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Dr John (Jerry) Lidwill (2010) |
The reception of Roman themes in modern Irish poetry |
Prof. Brian Arkins |
