Brigid Ehrmantraut (2019 cohort)
Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Wolfson College
Congratulations to Brigid, who has been awarded the prize for best graduate student paper delivered at the Celtic Studies Association of North America (CSANA) annual conference. Brigid presented her award-winning paper, ‘A Wrong Turn on the Way to Troy’: Samson and the Classical Tradition in Medieval Ireland, via Zoom on the penultimate day of the four-day conference, hosted virtually by Virginia Tech.
Brigid has also recently joined the Aarhus University's Classical Influences and Irish Culture (CLIC) project as a Research Affiliate. The project aims to show how classical models expose the shifting political structures of the nation through the politics of language, of conflict, of (post)colonialism, of gender, of identity.
You can find out more about the CLIC project here.