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About NUI Galway
About NUI Galway
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Community Engagement
Community Engagement
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Our PhD Students
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
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Dr John (Jerry) Lidwill (PhD 2010) |
The reception of Roman themes in modern Irish poetry |
Brian Arkins |