Jordan Brown graduated with a BA in History and an minor in neuroscience from George Mason University in 2015. During her time at GMU she received two grants to study the relationship between collective psychology, epigenetics, and the Irish Troubles. She presented her findings at the 2014 and 2015 American Society for Irish Studies Mid-Atlantic Conferences. Jordan went on to graduate from Northwestern University with a MS in Genetic Counseling in 2017. Additionally, she is currently working on a MA in Medical Humanities and Bioethics. She is currently working as a genetic counselor in the Cancer Risk Program at John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County.

Having completed an MPhil in Popular Literature at Trinity College, Dublin, Eva Burke is in the first year of her PhD at TCD under the supervision of Dr. Clare Clarke, focusing on the history and popularity of ‘domestic suspense’ fiction, and will publish a chapter in an edited collection on the genre in the coming year. She was shortlisted for the FWSA essay prize in 2015 and has published articles in the Journal of International Women’s Studies and Feminist Spaces. Her research interests include the gendered dynamics of victimhood in popular crime fiction and depictions of the monstrous feminine in horror fiction.  

Lynne Cahill is currently a PhD student with the School of Social Work & Social Policy, Trinity College, Dublin. Lynne's research interests  include gender and sexuality, sexual violence and female perpetrators, particularly intimate partner abuse in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender relationships. Lynne's current research explores the experience of female same sex intimate partner abuse. If you have any further inquiries about the study, please contact cahillly@tcd.ie

Kabir Chattopadhyay is a current PhD student in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, pursuing his degree under the supervision of Dr Padraic Whyte. His research is on children's literature, with particular focus on the role of objects of power in contemporary books in communicating notions of power, ideology and identity to child readers. Kabir teaches the Shakespeare and Romanticism modules in the School of English. His primary areas of interest are modern English children's texts, as well as questions of identity, childhood and language in colonial and postcolonial Bengal. Apart from his academic pursuits, Kabir is a poet, and a songwriter-singer, composing most of his work in Bengali. 

Benedict is a first year PhD student at the University of Edinburgh – his doctoral research is focusing on the relationship between museums and literature in Europe and North America from 1850 until the present day. He recently graduated with distinction from Edinburgh’s Book History and Material Culture masters programme, prior to which he studied English Literature at the University of Aberdeen, where he co-founded The Elphinstone Review, an undergraduate journal for the arts and social sciences.

Kurt McGee is a student of the Irish Writing M.Phil with interests in Modernist literature and the twentieth century novel.  He will be continuing his research in the US at the University of Notre Dame beginning in the fall of 2017.  He is grateful to the TPR for giving him publishing experience as he made this next step in his academic career.

Seán McNulty is currently studying an M.Phil in Anglo-Irish Literature at the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing. He studied a BA in English Literature at the University of Essex, and his research interests include the relationship between the arts and the mass media, and the role of the humanities in modern culture.

Cian graduated with a B.A. in History and Political Science from University College Dublin in 2014. Following two years of living in Berlin, his is now undertaking an MPhil in Trinity College Dublin, focusing upon Irish nationalist activity in Germany during the First World War.

David O’Shea is a graduate of the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama and the University of Cambridge, and is an Associate of the Royal College of Organists. He is undertaking research towards a PhD at Trinity College Dublin under the supervision of Dr Andrew Johnstone, and his research centres on the music of the Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle. In addition to his academic work, David is active as an organist and choral conductor, and is organist of Sandford Parish Church and St Philip’s Milltown in Dublin.

Daryl Hendley Rooney earned his M.A. degree in Medieval Studies at University College Dublin in 2016, where he worked on Gerald of Wales’s construction of the Irish Other in his Topographia Hiberniae. Daryl’s current research focuses on questions of the Self and Other in medieval Ireland, as well as the application of psychological discourses to the study of medieval identities. In 2014, he was an Erasmus Mundus Action II Israel scholar, studying at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev under the supervision of Prof. Yitzhak Hen.

Madeleine Saidenberg is a postgraduate student at Trinity, working towards an M.Phil in Irish Writing as part of the Oscar Wilde Centre. She graduated in 2015 from Davidson College with a major in English and a focus in drama, and she continues to combine literature and theatre in an academic context and in her hometown of New York City.

Karen Winslow is a PhD student at Trinity College Dublin. She received a bachelor’s and master’s degree in marketing management and statistics from The University of Alabama and a master’s degree in art history from Trinity College Dublin. She worked for eighteen years climbing the corporate ladder before following her true passion. Karen’s current research explores Chester Beatty’s manuscript collecting and the role he and other early twentieth-century collectors played in the development of manuscript, and in particular Islamic, art as an academic discipline in the west.