Peter Arnds#
| Membership Number: | 4821 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | IRELAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.tcd.ie/research/profiles/?profile=arndsp |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 Trinity College Dublin
- Fellow (since 2012), Associate Professor
- Head of Italian Studies Department (September 2017-present)
- Head of German Studies Department (August 2016-17)
- Director of the M.Phil Programme in Comparative Literature
- 2009 - 2016 Director of the M.Phil Programme in Literary Translation
- 1995 - 2008 Kansas State University, USA
- Since 200 Professor of German and Italian
- 1999 - 2005 Associate Professor of German and Italian
- 1995 - 1999 Assistant Professor of German and Italian
Fields of Scholarship
- Comparative literature
- Literary translation
- German literature
- Creative writing
- Myth studies
Honours and Awards
- 2012 Elected Fellow of Trinity College Dublin
- 2012 Writer in residence, Heinrich Boll Foundation at Achill island
- 2011 and 2015 All-Ireland Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
- 2013 President. Comparative Literature Association of Ireland
- 2015 Elected to PEN Centre for German Writers Abroad
