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Dr. Ciaran Cosgrove

Fellow Emeritus (Fellows Emeritii)

 ccosgrov@tcd.ie

 


Research Tags

  Literary theory, modernist and postmodernist fiction   Modern Spanish American novels   Spanish intellectual life   Translation theory and practice

Representations

Details Date
External Examiner, PhD (Spanish), Liverpool, U.K. 2006
External Examiner, PhD (Spanish), University of Limerick 2005
External Examiner PhD (Spanish) Queen's University, Belfast 1994
External Examiner, PhD (Spanish), University of León, Spain 2007
External Examiner at University of Liverpool 2002-2005
External Examiner at University of Stirling 2002-2005
External Examiner at University of Limerick 1991-1992
External Assessor for Departmental Review of Department of Hispanic Studies UCC 2002
External Assessor for Departmental Review of Department of Spanish, UCG 2005
Member of Poetry Ireland Council 1987-1989
Consultant for Department of Education Syllabus Review on New Poetry in Schools programme 1989
Jury member for the Juan Rulfo Literary prize, Latin America's most prestigious literary prize 1995
Served on Careers and Appointments Board 1984-1987
Established College agreements for university cooperation with Universities of Córdoba, Argentina and the Colegio de México, Mexico City (Latin America's most prestigious Humanities' research Institution)
Served on Faculty of Arts (Letters) Sub-committee on language 1990
Established in conjunction with Mexican Embassy College's agreement to host an annual visit of a Mexican academic. 2003
Guest speaker at Latin American Short Story conference at University of Guadalajara July 2005
Lecture: 'Supplementing Schiller: the Naive, the 'Sentimental', the 'Linguistically Unhoused': the cases of Homer, Mann and Borges' at the Hispanists' Research Seminar, University of Cambridge, U.K. April 1998
Lecture: 'The Theory and Practice of Literary Translation' at the Department of Hispanic Studies, UCC. March 1998
Delivered talk on the Cuban artist José Bedia at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin March 1997
Lecture: 'Aspects of Literary Translation: the Special Case of Borges' at the Department of Applied Languages, Dublin City University February 1997
Delivered paper on Augusto Monterroso, winner of the 1996 Juan Rulfo prize at the Feria del Libro, Guadalajara, Mexico November 1996
Delivered six illustrated talks on contemporary Latin American cinema at the Irish Film Centre, Dublin February/March 1996
Public interview with film director Michel Franco at 2013 Dublin Film Festival 25 February 2013
Lecture on the work of Brazilian novelist, Nélida Piñon, winner of the 1995 Juan Rulfo Literary prize, Guadalajara, Mexico. My own contribution appeared in whole or in part in 'El Nacional' (LXVII, tomo III, no.23883); sec. Cultura, p.35, Mexico 12 August 1995; 'La jornada', no 3915; 'El Occidental' (LII, no. 19180; 'El País' (año XX, no.6661) edición México p.5, 1 August 1995) November 1995
Delivered paper: 'El libro por venir' at the Casa de la palabra y la imagen, Guadalajara, Mexico. 14 July 1995
Guest lecture: 'Vinculaciones entre la tradición cuentística de Latinoamérica e Irlanda' at the three campuses of the University of Chiapas, Mexico: Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Comitán and San Cristóbal de las Casas June 1995
Delivered a talk: 'México en la obra de Italo Calvino' at La Casa d'Italia A.C., Guadalajara, Mexico April 1995
Two lectures ('conferencias magistrales') delivered at El Colegio de México, Mexico City: 'El pensamiento oriental en Rayuela' and 'El lenguaje prepotente en la obra de Juan Rulfo'. March 1995
Invited speaker at NUI Graduates Convocation Public Meeting held at Royal College Surgeons of Ireland: 'Future of the University: Intellectual Enlightenment or Training for Jobs' 26 September 2002
Public Interview with film director Edgardo Cozarinsky at the Irish Film Institue, Dublin 26 August 2006
Introduced Antonio Gamoneda, premio Cervantes 2006 winner,and read paper on his work, at the inauguration of the Instituto Cervantes premises in Dublin. 14 February 2007
Member of External Advisory Board of 'Hiperfeira', California State University, Northridge. 2003 to present
Roundtable of Spanish-speaking writers on reception of James Joyce in the Spanish-speaking world held at the Instituto Cervantes, Dublin 13 June 2008
Ciaran Cosgrove, Gnomo: Mythological Encounters, 2nd, Guadalajara, Mexico, Ediciones Rayuela, 2013, 5 - 317pp, Book, PUBLISHED
Ciaran Cosgrove (co-editor), Festschrift for Prof. Alvaro Gonzalez: Essays on Contemporary Mexican Literature, Guadalajara, Mexico, University of Guadalajara Press, 2013, v - 183pp, Book, PUBLISHED
Festschrift for Prof. Alvaro Gonzalez, Ciaran Cosgrove and Manuel Gutiérrez, Guadalajara, Mexico:, 2013, xii - 154, Critical Edition (Book), PUBLISHED
Catoptrics, Kaleidoscopes and 'Is there ever a beginning or an end?' in, editor(s)Bertoni, Roberto , Quaderni di cultura italiana 6, Torino, Trauben edizioni 2012, 2012, pp21 - 31, [COSGROVE, Ciaran], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Cosgrove, Ciaran, Review of Reframing Latin America : A Cultural Theory Reading of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, by Erik Ching, Christina Buckley, Angélica Lozano-Alonso , Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 86, (6), 2009, Review, PUBLISHED
COSGROVE, Ciaran, Contemporary Peruvian Narrataive and Popular Culture in JAime Bayly, Iván Thays and Jorge Eduardo Benavides, by Robert Ruiz , Bulletin of Spanish Studies, LXXXV, 2008, ppp.542-543 , Review, PUBLISHED
COSGROVE, Ciaran with KENT, Daniel, Gnomo: Mythological Encounters, Mexico, Ediciones Rayuela, 2007, 5 - 317pp, Book, PUBLISHED
Luvina (Irish issue of Mexican Literary Review), 22, (2005), COSGROVE, Ciaran, [editor], Journal, PUBLISHED
COSGROVE, Ciaran (ed.), Otra flor amarilla: Homenaje a Julio Cortázar, Mexico, Fondo de cultura económica, 2004, 5 - 142pp, Book, PUBLISHED
'Cortázar y la novela prescindible in, editor(s)QUINT, Harriet , Tradicciones: lecturas de Babel, Guadalajara, Mexico, Universidad de Guadalajara, 2004, pp211 - 227, [COSGROVE. Ciaran], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
  

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COSGROVE, Ciaran, The Assassination of Human Rights, Review of The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi?, by Francisco Goldman , The Irish Times, 2008, Review, PUBLISHED
COSGROVE, Ciaran, Recording the Last Great Cause, Review of We Saw Spain Die: Foreign Correspondents in the Spanish Civil War, by Paul Preston , The Irish Times, 2008, Review, PUBLISHED
COSGROVE, Ciaran, 'Spain: The Tack and the Glory', Review of Ghosts of Spain, by Giles Tremlett , Irish Times, 2007, Review, PUBLISHED
COSGROVE, Ciaran, Picking the Bones of Civil Strife, Review of The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939, by Antony Beevor , Iirsh Times, 2006, Review, PUBLISHED
COSGROVE, Ciaran, 'Caught in the Oxford Headlights', Review of Your Face Tomorrow 2: Dance and Dream, by Javier Márías , Irish Times, 2006, Review, PUBLISHED
COSGROVE, Ciaran, 'Ruptured Rhyme', Review of Trilce, by César Vallejo (edited and translated by Michael Smith and Valentino Gianuzzi , Irish Times, 2006, Review, PUBLISHED
COSGROVE, Ciaran, 'Incisive Insights into the New Spain, Review of The Politics of Contemporary Spain, by Sebastian Balfour , Irish Times, 2005, Review, PUBLISHED
COSGROVE, Ciaran, 'Beware the "New Order" in Education, 2004, -, Notes: [Irish Times], Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
COSGROVE, Ciaran, 'Monarch with a Mission', Review of Juan Carlos: A People's King, by Paul Preston , Irish Times, 2004, Review, PUBLISHED
COSGROVE, Ciaran, 'A Bloody Matter', Review of Rivers of Gold: The Rise of theSpanish Empire, by Hugh Thomas , Irish Times, 2003, Review, PUBLISHED

  

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Awards and Honours

Award Date
Fellow of Trinity College Dublin 2009
First Irish recipient of the Mexican Government "Ohtli" award. It is the highest award presented to a civilian outside Mexico for "services rendered to the dissemination of Mexican culture abroad". This is only the third time it has been awarded to a European. 2012
Diploma al Merito of La Casa D'Italia A.C., Guadalajara, Mexico 1995
Mexican Government 'Apoyo del programa de capacitación de académicos de alto nivel a través del Fondo para la Modernización de la Educación Superior (FOMES), en el nivel IV. 1994
Spanish Government Research Scholarship 1994
Mexican Government Scholarship (CONAYCT) 1975
Dr Henry Hutchinson Stuart Scholarship 1972
Foundation Studentship 1972
Xavier Giralt Book Prize 1972
The French Government Book Prize for A-level performance in French 1968
Appointed member of jury for Juan Rulfo International Literary Prize, Latin America's most prestigious literary prize. November 1995