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Irene O'Daly serves as an Affiliate Researcher at the Humanities Institute for Cultural Inquiry within the Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University, where she is formally affiliated with the Department of History and Art History. Her academic profile centers on Medieval History research and teaching, with active engagement in both institutional research clusters and classroom instruction.
Dr. O'Daly's research program investigates the intellectual contours of medieval Europe through manuscript studies, reception history, and political philosophy. She specializes in analyzing how classical knowledge was transmitted, transformed, and contested in medieval textual cultures, with particular attention to material book history and the intersection of scientific thought with philosophical discourse. Her methodological approach combines codicology, paleography, and intellectual history to reconstruct medieval scholarly practices.
As an educator, she teaches specialized courses including Palaeography (Medieval) and Medieval books and documents: deciphering, analyzing and interpreting, training students in manuscript analysis techniques and historical source criticism. Her pedagogical focus emphasizes hands-on engagement with primary materials to develop critical interpretation skills.
Dr. O'Daly operates within the Medieval Culture research group at the Humanities Institute for Cultural Inquiry, collaborating on interdisciplinary projects examining cultural transmission in premodern Europe. Her work contributes to Utrecht University's strategic focus on historical epistemology and material text cultures, bridging humanities scholarship with digital methodologies for manuscript analysis.
