Name: Jason Harris
Position: Lecturer; Director of the Centre for Neo-Latin Studies, UCC
T: 353 (0)21 4903585
F: 353 (0)21
E: j.harris@ucc.ie
Biography
I was born in Belfast, received my primary degree in English/Drama, and my Ph.D in History, both at Trinity College Dublin. My Ph.D thesis focused on intellectual circles in northern-Europe during the second half of the sixteenth century, particularly on the friendship network of Abraham Ortelius. I held a postdoctoral research fellowship for three years at the Centre for Neo-Latin Studies, UCC; then I joined the History Department in 2006.
Books
- Kathleen Cawsey & Jason Harris, eds, Transmission and Transformation in the Middle Ages: Texts and Contexts (Dublin: Four Courts), 2007
- Jason Harris & Keith Sidwell, eds, Making Ireland Roman: Irish Neo-Latin Writers and the Republic of Letters (Cork University Press), 2009
Articles
- “The Irish Franciscan Mission to the Highlands and Islands” in David Edwards & Micheal O Siochru, eds, The Scots in Stuart Ireland (Manchester University Press), forthcoming.
- “Irish-Scottish Tensions in Baroque Europe: George Conn and the Scotic Debate” in Tom O’Connor & Marian Lyons, eds., The Ulster Earls in Baroque Europe (Dublin: Four Courts), forthcoming.
- “The rhetoric of history: Stephen White's Apologia pro innocentibus Ibernis”, in Jason Harris & Keith Sidwell, eds, Making Ireland Roman: The Latin Writing of Early Modern Ireland (Cork University Press, 2009).
- “Renaissance Ireland – some problems and perspectives” in Thomas M. Barr, ed., Italian Influences and Irish Outcasts: Essays on Torquato Tasso and Aspects of the Renaissance in Ireland, Europe and Beyond, Coleraine, 2009, 102-118
- “Paolo Giovio’s Description of Ireland, 1548”, Irish Historical Studies, xxxv, no. 139 (May 2007), 265-288.
- “Giraldus as Natural Historian: transformations and reception”, in Kathleen Cawsey & Jason Harris, eds, Transmission and Transformation in the Middle Ages: Texts and Contexts (Dublin: Four Courts), 2007, 77-97.
- “Grammar, reading, and cultural change in early modern Europe: two studies”, History of Universities, 21/1 (2006), 222-238.
- “Het album amicorum van Abraham Ortelius: codicologie en verzameling”, in De Gulden Passer (Jaargang 85, 2005), 117-135.
- “The Practice of Community: Humanist Friendship during the Dutch Revolt”, in Texas Studies in Literature and Language 47: 4 (2005), 299-325.
- “Reading the First Atlases: Ortelius, De Jode and TCD volume M.aa.9”, The Long Room, vol. 49 (2004), 28-53.
- “The Religious Position of Abraham Ortelius”, in Arie-Jan Gelderblom, Jan L. de Jong and Marc Van Vaeck, eds., The Low Countries at the Crossroads of Religious Beliefs, Brill, 2004, 89-139.
Office Hours: 11-1 on Wednesday (1 Elderwood, College Road)
Postgraduate Students
Nienke Tjoelker, The Alithinologia of John Lynch
Noirin Ni Bheaglaoi, Gerald of Wales and the Mapping of Ireland
Shane O'Donnell, The Godly City during the Reformation
Jennifer Browne, Pierre Bayle and Toleration Theory