Daragh O'Connell

I am Senior Lecturer in the Department of Italian, UCC and Director of the CDSI (Centre for Dante Studies in Ireland): http://casilac.ie/cdsi/ (Recorded activities of the Centre can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/@danteinireland7648/videos) I am currently Senior Editor of Italian Studies (pre-1700) https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/yits20/current

I previously held the position of Head of Research in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures and Director of CASiLaC (Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures: http://casilac.ie/), as well as Head of Italian Department for a number of years. I research across three distinct areas: Dante Studies; Modern and Contemporary Sicilian Literature; 18th Century Neapolitan Autobiography (Vico). https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3050-056X

My main field of interest is Dante, in particular Dante and 13th and 14th Century Court Culture. I have published widely on Dante, including Art and Nature in Dante (with Jennifer Petrie, 2013), War and Peace in Dante (2015) and Dante and the Seven Deadly Sins (both with John C. Barnes, 2017). I am currently editing the volume Luoghi e spazi reali e ideali nell’opera e nella vita di Dante (Cesati, 2024).

I have also published extensively on modern and contemporary Sicilian literature (writers on which I have published include Verga, De Roberto, Pirandello, Sciascia, Tomasi di Lampedusa), and on the narrative poetics of Vincenzo Consolo in particular. My monograph, La trilogia dell Trinacria: polifonia e palinsesti nella narrativa di Vincenzo Consolo (Milan: Mimesis) will be published later this year.

I also work on autobiographical writing in Naples in the Eighteenth-century, with a particular focus on Giambattista Vico and Pietro Giannone and the History of Ideas. In 2014 I co-edited (with D. Trapassi) the volume: L'arte della scrittura delle vite: Contesti auto-biografici e autobiografismo nella letteratura italiana (Florence: Cesati, 2014).

My undergraduate teaching covers some of these areas, especially Dante and the literature of the Early Modern period.

I also set up with colleagues in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures the Masters in Translation Studies. I am happy to provide supervision on any of these areas.

I currently have 5 PhD students:

1) Dario Galassini (IRC Postgraduate Scholar) - «Poeta che mi guidi»: Dantean Afterlives in the Poetry of Giorgio Caproni, Antonia Pozzi, Vittorio Sereni and Mario Luzi.

2) Elsina Caponetti (IRC Postgraduate Scholar) - "Mirabilis visio": Dante's "Commedia" and Irish Vision Literature

3) Chiara Valcelli (IRC Postgraduate Scholar ; with Dr Adam Hanna, School of English) - Dante in Joyce: Mapping Dante's 'Commedia' onto Joyce's 'Dubliners', 'Ulysses' and 'Finnegan's Wake'

4) Tommaso Verga (with Dr Barry Monahan, Dept. of Film Studies) - 'Masking Modernity: Pirandello, Welles, Kurosawa'

5) Stephen Boyd (with Dr Helena Buffery, Dept. of SPLAS) - Cervantes and the Novelas ejemplares

I am on the Executive Committee of A.I.P.I (Associazione Internazionale Professori d'Italiano) and have previously been on the Executive Commitee of Society for Italian Studies (SIS) 2009-2016; Honorary Secretary and Executive Committee of the Society for Pirandello Studies (UK and Ireland) 2009-2013; Executive Committee of CLAI (Comparative Literature Association of Ireland) 2008-2014. I am also on the editorial board of various prestigious journals and publishers: Mimesis: Punti di vista: Testi e studi di letteratura contemporanea/ Civiltà italiana/ Spunti e ricerche/ Biblion: Testi commentati del Medioevo e dell'Eta' Moderna.

• Dante Studies
• 13th & 14th Century Italian Court Culture
• Sicilian Literature 20th/21st centuries
• Narrative Poetics of Vincenzo Consolo
• Eighteenth-century Neapolitan Intellectual Culture
• Eighteenth-century Autobiography (Vico, Giannone, D'Andrea and Genovesi)
• Early Modern Theatre
• European Modernism
• The Italian Historical Novel
• Italian Theatre
• Ekphrasis and the Novel
• Genetic Criticism

Project: Writing Women's Voices at the Origins of Italian Literary Culture ( R18288) Funding Body: Irish Research Council Start/End Dates: 01-OCT-18 / 30-SEP-21 Award: €91,846.00

Project: «Poeta che mi guidi»: Dantean Afterlives in the Poetry of Giorgio Caproni, Antonia Pozzi, Vittorio Sereni and Mario Luzi. ( R20410) Funding Body: Irish Research Council Start/End Dates: 01-SEP-21 / 31-AUG-24 Award: €82,500.00

Project: ( R20155) Funding Body: HEACOVID19 Start/End Dates: 01-APR-21 / 31-MAY-22 Award: €33,646.00

Project: Livy's Legacy in Dante ( R19664) Funding Body: Irish Research Council Start/End Dates: 01-OCT-21 / 31-OCT-22 Award: €96,417.00

Project: Lyric Subjectivity in Guido Cavalcanti's _Rime_ ( R19622) Funding Body: Irish Research Council Start/End Dates: 01-OCT-20 / 31-MAY-22 Award: €47,422.00

Project: Irish Research Council; Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship 2017; Martina Piperno; "The Other (in) Italy; Survival and Legacy of Italics (1800-2000); GOIPD/2017/1081; Daragh O'Connell ( R17662) Funding Body: Irish Research Council Start/End Dates: 01-OCT-17 / 30-SEP-19 Award: €85,340.00

Project: ( R19952) Funding Body: HEACOVID19 Start/End Dates: 01-OCT-20 / 30-SEP-21 Award: €20,485.00

Project: Dante's hapax legomena in the 'Commedia': A Study of Poetic Singularity ( R22280) Funding Body: Irish Research Council Start/End Dates: 01-SEP-24 / 31-AUG-25 Award: €55,396.00

Project: Beyond Literary Influence: Reconfiguring Dante's Critical and Scholarly Reception in the British Isles (1810s-1910s) ( GOIPD/2019/1047) Funding Body: Irish Research Council Start/End Dates: 01-OCT-19 / 30-SEP-20 Award: €46,683.00

Project: Dante Public Lecture Series 2011-2023 ( Dante Public Lecture) Funding Body: Start/End Dates: 10-JAN-11 / 20-JAN-23 Award: €3,372.00

Project: Internal Research Grants ( Cumulative Research ) Funding Body: College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences Start/End Dates: 01-JAN-08 / 31-DEC-22 Award: €6,000.00

Project: Dreams and Vision in Dante and the Italian Middle Ages ( GOIPD/2023/951) Funding Body: Irish Research Council Start/End Dates: 01-SEP-23 / 31-AUG-24 Award: €52,441.00

Project: Dante in Joyce: Mapping Dante's 'Commedia' onto Joyce's 'Dubliners', 'Ulysses' and 'Finnegan's Wake' ( R21244) Funding Body: Irish Research Council Start/End Dates: 01-SEP-22 / 31-AUG-26 Award: €110,000.00

Project: "Mirabilis visio": Dante's "Commedia" and Irish Vision Literature ( R21243) Funding Body: Irish Research Council Start/End Dates: 01-SEP-22 / 31-AUG-25 Award: €82,500.00

Project: Dreams and Visions in Dante and the Italian Middle Ages. ( R21835) Funding Body: Irish Research Council Start/End Dates: 01-SEP-23 / 28-FEB-25 Award: €52,441.00