Keeper, Marsh's Library

The Governors and Guardians have appointed Dr Jason McElligott as Keeper of Marsh's Library and having been sworn in at the Annual Visitation on 13 October, he took up his post on 14 October 2011.

 

Dr McElligott read for his Ph.D. in modern history at St. John's College, Cambridge, and was the Research Associate on the Roger Morrice Entring Book Project (2001-2003) at Cambridge University. He was an IRCHSS Post-Doctoral Fellow in UCD from 2003-2005, and was elected a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford in October 2005.

He returned to Ireland in September 2008 to work at the Trinity Long Room Hub, the arts and humanities research institute at Trinity College Dublin.

He is an expert on early-modern print culture with wide teaching and research interests, including the history of the book; the history of reading; the growth of printed propaganda; and the theory and practice of censorship.