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Dr. Brendan O'Connell

Associate Professor (English)
ARTS BUILDING
      
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Dr. Brendan O'Connell

Associate Professor (English)
ARTS BUILDING

 oconneb2@tcd.ie

 3531896 2597


Brendan O'Connell holds a BA and PhD from Trinity College Dublin, and has been a lecturer in the School of English since 2006. His research and teaching interests focus on the poetry of 14th and 15th century England, in particular the works of Chaucer and the Gawain-poet. He also has a strong interest in the reception of medieval literature (Chaucer in particular) in the early modern period and in the 21st century.
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Early English Text Society
New Chaucer Society
Piers Plowman Society
Hoccleve Society
South Atlantic Review, 90, 4, (2025), Sylvia Federico and Brendan O'Connell, [Co-editor, Special Issue: "Antique Temporalities: Late Medieval and Early Modern Classicism in England"], Journal, PUBLISHED  URL
Brendan O'Connell, Forging Classical and Medieval Temporalities in the Apocryphal Court of Love, South Atlantic Review, 90, (4), 2025, p160 - 178, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Late Medieval and Early Modern English in, editor(s)Paul F. Bandia, James Hadley and Siobhán McElduff , Translation and the Classic, New York, Routledge, 2024, pp38 - 54, [Brendan O'Connell], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  URL
Brendan O'Connell, The Afterlives of Adam Scriveyn: Chaucer's Scribe in Dantes's Inferno, Ecdotica, 21, 2024, p231 - 245, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  URL
'Beaten Down and Built Anew': Saint Erkenwald and Old St. Paul"s in, editor(s)Hannah M. Bailey, Karl Kinsella, and Daniel Thomas , Architectural Representation in Medieval Textual and Material Culture, Amsterdam, ARC Humanities Press, 2023, pp79 - 97, [Brendan O'Connell], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  URL
Brendan O'Connell and Alexandra Colby, Collaborative Teaching and Creative Assignments Using Contemporary Adaptation, New Chaucer Studies: Padagogy and Profession, 4, (2), 2023, p64 - 74, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Brendan O'Connell, 'Think of All the Differences!': Mixed Marriages in Transcultural Adaptations of Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale', Adaptation, 15, (1), 2022, p7 - 21, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Brendan O'Connell, Teaching Literary Responses to the Black Death During the COVID 19 Pandemic, All-Ireland Journal of Higher Education, 12, (2), 2020, p1 - 5, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  URL
Brendan O'Connell, ""Le Bone Florence of Rome": A Critical Edition and Facing Translation of a Middle English Romance Analogous to Chaucer's "Man of Law's Tale", Review of ""Le Bone Florence of Rome": A Critical Edition and Facing Translation of a Middle English Romance Analogous to Chaucer's "Man of Law's Tale", by Jonathan Stavsky , Medieval Feminist Forum, 55, (2), 2020, p212-14 , Review, PUBLISHED  URL
Chaucer's 'beast group' and 'Mother Hubberds Tale' in, editor(s)Rachel Stenner, Tamsin Badcoe and Gareth Griffith , Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2019, pp189 - 211, [Brendan O'Connell], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
  

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'Ignotum per ignocius': alchemy, analogy and poetics in Fragment VIII of the Canterbury Tales in, editor(s)Kathy Cawsey and Jason Harris , Transmission and Transformation in the Middle Ages: Texts and Contexts, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2007, pp131 - 156, [Brendan O'Connell], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED