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Current PhD Students in Classics

There are currently 14 PhD students in NUIG Classics. For more infomation on individual projects, see the PhD Project Details page.

Student	Project title	Supervisor(s)	Funding
Grace Attwood	Obscurity Has Another Tale to Tell: The Reception and Modification of Latin Literary Models in Ireland during the early Middle Ages	Jacopo Bisagni	Irish Research Council (2017–2021)
Michael Doherty	The use and representation of Classical themes and imagery in Victorian art as part of a colonial discourse on Empire	Michael Clarke	NUIG College of Arts (2013–2014), Irish Research Council (2014–2017)
Ioannis Doukas	A Trojan Cycle for Late Antiquity: Towards a Digital Intertextual Commentary	Michael Clarke, Pádraic Moran	NUIG Digital Arts and Humanities Scholarship (2014–2018)
Noémi Farkas	Intertextuality and ideology in Sedulius Scottus, De rectoribus christianis	Pádraic Moran	Galway Doctoral Fellowship (2017–2021)
Micheál Geoghegan	Generational tensions in classical Athens: a problem for the citizen self-image, and an aspect of female suppression within the patriarchy	Edward Herring	Irish Research Council (2016–2020)
Francesca Guido	De Analogia, ut ait Romanus: Recovering an embedded text in Charisius’ Latin grammar	Pádraic Moran	NUIG Digital Arts and Humanities Scholarship (2019–2020), Irish Research Council (2021–2023)
Paula Harrison	A study and critical edition of the Carolingian compilation De Astronomia in Laon, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS 422.	Jacopo Bisagni	Irish Research Council Laureate Project Scholarship (2018–2022)
Ann Hurley	The Anonymous Excidium Troiae: Its importance as a didactic question-and-answer text and its reception and intertextuality in later vernacular literature	Michael Clarke	Galway Doctoral Scholarship (2015–2016), Irish Research Council (2016–2019)
Maria Chiara Marzolla	Music and the Early Irish Church	Jacopo Bisagni (and Prof. Cesarino Ruini, Bologna)	Galway Doctoral Scholarship (2018–2022)
Erin McKinney	Linguistic Code-Switching in Bethu Brigte, the Old Irish Life of St Brigit	Jacopo Bisagni	NUIG Hardiman Fellowship (2017–18), Irish Research Council (2018–2021)
Elena Nordio	Regionalism and Diversification in Seventh-Century Visigothic Latinity: A Sociolinguistic Approach	Jacopo Bisagni	Irish Research Council (2018–2022)
Lioba Speicher	The Old Norse Sagas of Antiquity: A study in cross-cultural Classical reception and transnational networks in Medieval Scandinavia, Ireland and Europe	Michael Clarke	Galway Doctoral Scholarship (2019–2020), Irish Research Couni (2021–2023)
Mary Sweeney	Jewish identity in 2nd century BCE Alexandria: The texts and transmission of fragmentary Hellenistic Jewish literature	Michael Clarke	Irish Research Council (2018–2022)
Harry Tanner	(Greek lexical semantics)	Michael Clarke

Classics PhDs Recently Completed

For more infomation on individual projects, see the PhD Project Details page.

Graduate	Project title	Supervisor(s)	Funding
Dr Charles Doyle (PhD 2018)	Studies in the Latin Christian reception of early Greek materialism	Pádraic Moran	Galway Doctoral Fellowship (2014–2015), Irish Research Council (2015–2018)
Dr Jason O’Rorke (PhD 2017)	Voice of Ancients: An examination of verbal diathesis and its didactic practices in Latin grammars from Late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages	Jacopo Bisagni	NUIG College of Arts (2010–2011), Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2011–2014)
Dr Sarah Corrigan (PhD 2017)	The sea in early medieval Hiberno-Latin and latinate literature: Cosmological problem and imaginative resource	Michael Clarke	NUIG College of Arts (2009–2011), Irish Research Council (2011–2013)
Dr Peter Kelly (PhD 2016)	Synthesizing identity and text in Ovid’s Metamorphoses	Michael Clarke	NUIG Hardiman Fellowship, Irish Research Council
Dr Adelia Greer (PhD 2015)	Xenophon and the ancient Greek cavalry horse: an equestrian perspective	Edward Herring	NUIG College of Arts
Dr Francesca Bezzone (PhD 2013)	Deconstructing the Man, creating the Saint: The literary sanctification of Saint Germanus in the Vita Germani Auctore Constantio	Mark Stansbury
Dr Eóin O'Donoghue (PhD 2011)	Remember me when I am gone away: An examination of the representation of gender in the material culture of archaic Etruria	Edward Herring	NUIG College of Arts
Dr Anastasia Remoundou-Howley (PhD 2011)	Palimpsests of Antigone: Contemporary Irish versions of Sophocles’ tragedy	Brian Arkins
Dr John (Jerry) Lidwill (PhD 2010)	The reception of Roman themes in modern Irish poetry	Brian Arkins

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