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Dr. Brendan O'Connell

Dr. Brendan O'Connell

Associate Professor, English

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Biography

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.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

  • O'Connell, Brendan, '"Struglyng Wel and Myghtily": Resisting Rape in the Man of Law's Tale', Medium Aevum, 84, (1), 2015, p16 - 39Journal Article, 2015
  • Brendan O'Connell, Geoffrey Chaucer, Oxford Bibliographies in British and Irish Literature, 2016Journal Article, 2016, URL
  • The Erkenwald Poet in, editor(s)Elizabeth McCarthy and Bernice M. Murphy , Lost Souls of Horror and the Gothic: Fifty-Four Neglected Authors, Actors, Artists and Others, Jefferson, NC, McFarland and Company, 2016, pp76 - 79, [Brendan O'Connell]Book Chapter, 2016
  • Brendan O'Connell, Putting the Plowman in His Place: Order and Genre in the Early Modern Canterbury Tales, Chaucer Review, 53, (4), 2018, p428 - 448Journal Article, 2018, 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, 2019
  • 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, p212-14Review, 2020, URL
  • Brendan O'Connell, Chaucer's Decameron and the Origin of the "Canterbury Tales,, Review of Chaucer's Decameron and the Origin of the "Canterbury Tales,, by Frederick M. Biggs , Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 40, 2018, p447-50Review, 2018
  • Brendan O'Connell, David Aers, Beyond Reformation?, Review of Beyond Reformation?: An Essay on William Langland's Piers Plowman and the End of Constantinian Christianity, by David Aers , Spenser Review, 46, (1.5), 2016Review, 2016
  • 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 - 5Journal Article, 2020, TARA - Full Text
  • 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 - 21Journal Article, 2022, 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, 2023, TARA - Full Text
  • 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, 2024, 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 - 74Journal Article, 2023
  • Brendan O'Connell, The Afterlives of Adam Scriveyn: Chaucer's Scribe in Dantes's Inferno, Ecdotica, 21, 2024, p231 - 245Journal Article, 2024, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Brendan O'Connell, Forging Classical and Medieval Temporalities in the Apocryphal Court of Love, South Atlantic Review, 90, (4), 2025, p160 - 178Journal Article, 2025
  • 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, 2025, URL
  • O'Connell, Brendan, '''Adam Scriveyn" and the Falsifiers in Dante's Inferno: A New interpretation of Chaucer's "Wordes'", The Chaucer Review, 40, (i), 2005, p39 - 56Journal Article, 2005
  • The Poetics of Fraud: Jean de Meun, Dante and Chaucer in, editor(s)Gerald Morgan , Chaucer in Context: A Golden Age of English Poetry, Bern, Peter Lang, 2012, pp261 - 278, [Brendan O'Connell]Book Chapter, 2012
  • Chaucer's Counterfeit Exempla in, editor(s)Cliodhna Carney and Frances McCormack , Chaucer's Poetry: Words, Authority and Ethics, Dublin, Four Courts, 2013, pp134 - 145, [Brendan O'Connell]Book Chapter, 2013
  • Karen Hodder and Brendan O'Connell (eds), Transmission and Generation in Medieval and Renaissance Literature: Essays in Honour of John Scattergood, Dublin, Four Courts, 2012Book, 2012
  • Culture and Dispute in Dialogus de Scaccario in, editor(s)Karen Hodder and Brendan O'Connell , Transmission and Generation in Medieval and Renaissance Literature: Essays in Honour of John Scattergood, Dublin, Four Courts, 2012, pp52 - 64, [Brendan O'Connell]Book Chapter, 2012
  • '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

Recognition

  • Hoccleve Society
  • Piers Plowman Society
  • New Chaucer Society
  • Early English Text Society