Faculty

Texts, Contexts, Cultures has a director in each of the participating institutions.

Professor Nicholas Allen is Moore Institute Professor at NUI Galway. He is writing a cultural history of 1916 and its impact on modernism for Cambridge University Press, and editing Ernie O'Malley's later letters and papers with Cormac O'Malley. His other books are Modernism, Ireland and Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and George Russell and the New Ireland (Four Courts, 2003). Allen is editor of That Other Island (2007), with Eve Patten, Gerald Dawe's The Proper Word (2007) and The Cities of Belfast (2003), with Aaron Kelly. He leads the Galway strand of Texts, Contexts, Cultures, a graduate programme run in association with Trinity College Dublin and University College Cork, and has supervisory interests in the broad range of twentieth century Irish literature, history and art. Professor Allen can be contacted at nicholas.allen@nuigalway.ie

Dr Crawford Gribben is Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Print Culture in the School of English / School of Histories and Humanities, Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of a number of studies on early modern religious cultures, including The Puritan Millennium: Literature and Theology, 1550-1682 (Dublin, 2000) and God’s Irishmen: Theological debates in Cromwellian Ireland (Oxford, 2007). He leads the “History of the Book” course, and has supervisory interests in literature, history and religion. Dr Gribben can be contacted at crawford.gribben@tcd.ie.

Professor Brendan Dooley is Professor of Renaissance Studies at University College Cork. He has previously taught at Harvard University, Notre Dame University and Jacobs University in Bremen, and was Chief of Research at the Medici Archive Project in Florence. Publications include Morandi’s Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics, Princeton, 2002; The Social History of Skepticism: Experience and Doubt in Early Modern Culture, Johns Hopkins, 1999; Science and the Marketplace, Lexington Books, 2001; [with Barbara Marti] Giovanni Baldinucci, Quaderno. Guerra, peste e carestia a Firenze, Polistampa, 2001; [with Sabrina Baron] The Politics of Information in Early Modern Europe, Routledge, 2000; Italy in the Baroque: Selected Readings, Garland, 1995; Science, Politics and Society in Eighteenth-Century Italy. The Giornale de’ letterati d’ Italia and its World, Garland, 1991; [ed. with Intro.] Energy and Culture: Perspectives on the Power to Work, Ashgate, 2006; and articles in Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales; Journal of Modern History; Rivista storica italiana; etc. He is leading the course on “The Renaissance: An Intellectual and Cultural History, 1450-1650,” and has supervisory interests in early modern cultural history, and the histories of knowledge, media, and science. Contact: b.dooley@ucc.ie