Marie-Luise Theuerkauf

 

Marie-Luise

 

Marie-Luise Theuerkauf joined the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a Marie Curie Global Fellow in 2024. Her research project, ‘Place and Empire in Irish Literature and Culture’ (project ID 101151450), looks at classical influence on and the political dimension of Irish topographical history, called dindshenchas, and the conceptualization of Irish imperialism. She holds a PhD in Early Irish and Old French from University College Cork, and has held research positions at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Trinity College Dublin, and the University of Cambridge. She has lectured on a broad range of subjects within Celtic Studies at Cork, Maynooth University, the University of Helsinki, Uppsala and the University of Cambridge. Her first monograph, Dindshenchas Érenn, appeared in 2023 and was published by University College Cork.  

Recent publications: 

‘The Irish Jerusalem: Political Etymologies and the Study of Greek in Medieval Ireland’, Celtica 36 (2025), 70–86. 

Dublaídi Dindshenchais: Studies on the Medieval Irish Placename Tradition (Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2024), xxvi + 456pp; ISBN: 978-1-85500-252-4. 

‘The Dindṡenchas in Royal Irish Academy Ms D ii 2’, in Marie-Luise Theuerkauf (ed.), Dublaídi Dindṡenchais: Studies on the Medieval Irish Placename Tradition (Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2024), 89–127. 

‘A Tale of Two Hills: Cacus son of Vulcan and the Pre-History of Tara and Rome’, North-American Journal of Celtic Studies 8:2 (Autumn 2024), 156–164. 

‘Flame of Í’ and ‘Crown of Alba’: The Role of Colum Cille in the Dindṡenchas’, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 87 (Summer 2024), 41–57. 

‘Dindshenchas Érenn ‘Knowledge of Ireland’s Notable Places’: The Theban Origins of Tara’, in Michael Clarke, Erich Poppe, and Isabelle Torrance (eds), Classical Antiquity in Medieval Ireland: The Antiquity Sagas and Related Literature (London: Bloomsbury, 2024), 353–66. 

Dindshenchas Érenn, Cork Studies in Celtic Literatures 7 (Cork: Department of Early and Medieval Irish, University College Cork, 2023), xii + 147pp.; ISBN: 978-0995546974.