Joanna Poetz is a PhD candidate in the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies of Trinity College Dublin. She holds an M.Phil  in Medieval Language, Literature and Cultural Studies from Trinity College Dublin and a BA in French and English from the University of Lausanne. Her doctoral dissertation, carried out under the supervision of Dr Sarah Alyn Stacey, examines manuscripts written by the Waldensians. The thesis consists of a critical edition of the Waldensian “treatises” and “tracts” uniquely preserved in the Old Library of Trinity College Dublin, including the Occitan translation of two texts by Luke of Prague: Ayczo es la Causa del nostre Departiment de la Gleysa Romana and Epistola al Serenissimo Rey Lancelau. Her research project is generously funded by the Irish Research Council.