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PhD and Post-Doc

PhD and Postdoctoral Research in Classics

We welcome enquiries from individuals who are interested in pursuing full-time research, whether towards a PhD in Classics or as Postdoctoral researchers. Candidates should be suitably qualified and have research interests related to those of our lecturing staff.

NUI Galway offers world-class facilities in the recently opened Hardiman Research Building (below). Our reseachers join a lively research community through affiliation not only to the discipline of Classics, but also to our Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-modern Studies (CAMPS) and the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Hardiman Research Building

PhD students

PhD students normally take the four-year Structured PhD programme, with the first year partly focused on taught modules in general research skills as well as discipline-specific areas (ancient languages, for example). The University's Courses Page provides information on how to apply, entry requirements, etc. 

Common sources of PhD funding are listed below. We will be happy to give further advice on funding.

Postdoctoral researchers

Potential postdoctoral researchers are encouraged to contact a member of staff to discuss potential funding through the Irish Research Council or Marie Curie schemes.

Research interests

Current research interests among the lecturing staff include the following:

  • Bilingualism and cultural fusion
  • The Classical inheritance in medieval and modern literature
  • Comparative and structural analysis of myth
  • Digital editing
  • Education and scholarship in Antiquity and the early Middle Ages
  • Ethnicity and identity
  • Field archaeology, esp. in south Italy
  • Glosses, glossaries and scholia
  • Greek in the early medieval west
  • Heroic literature and ideology
  • Hiberno-Latin
  • Indo-European studies
  • Language change, historical semantics
  • Palaeography and the culture of the book

See the profiles of individual staff members to find out more about their interests and to identify a person to contact.

You can also learn more by reading about current and recent PhD projects.