Nicole Volmering

Nicole Volmering is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Trinity College Dublin. She specializes in medieval Irish manuscript culture, religious literature, and education history. Her current roles include Principal Investigator (PI) for the SFI-IRC Pathway Programme project 'Early Irish Hands' (2022–27), exploring early Irish manuscript writing techniques, and CLÓSCAPE (2024–25), examining Gaelic typeface use. She is also co-PI of the interdisciplinary 'Wandering Books' project. As Trinity Centre for the Book Strand Leader for the History of Writing, she bridges historical and digital methodologies.

Her educational background includes a PhD in Early and Medieval Irish from University College Cork (De Finibus Fellow) and postdoctoral fellowships at Trinity, the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, and Friedrich-Alexander Universität in Erlangen. She holds the Johann Kaspar Zeuss prize for her dissertation.

Teaching and supervision focus on medieval studies, palaeography, and manuscript analysis. She has taught at Trinity, Cork, and Maynooth universities, with a secondary interest in higher education pedagogy and teaching practices.