Graduate Members' Profiles

 

 

Name: Miriam Haughton

 

 

Research Profile: Miriam recently submitted her interdisciplinary thesis 'Power and Punishment: Stories from Postmodern Ireland' to the School of English Drama and Film at University College Dublin. Supervised by Dr Cathy Leeney, Miriam's work considers the relationship between power and punishment in contemporary representations of Irishness, particularly in theatre, film and cultural performance. Miriam's work has been published in the international journals New Theatre Quarterly and Focus, and she has a forthcoming article in Mortality. In 2012, Miriam received a scholarship from the Keough-Naughton Institute of Irish Studies at Notre Dame University to participate in their Irish Seminar. Miriam lectures in Theatre Studies at UCD and NUI Galway, and reviews for Irish Theatre Magazine. Miriam supports the campaign group, Justice for Magdalenes, and hopes their struggle for an apology and redress will soon be acknowledged by the Irish State. Miriam will present papers at the forthcoming ISTR conference at NUIG and 'The Future State of Ireland' conference at Goldsmiths, London.

 

Research Interests: Irish Theatre, Irish Studies, Women's Studies, World Theatre, Multiculturalism

 

Links: Humanities Institute of Ireland: http://www.ucd.ie/hii/people/graduateresearchers/miriamhaughton/

LinkedIn: http://ie.linkedin.com/pub/miriam-haughton/57/205/681

Academia.edu: http://ucd-ie.academia.edu/MiriamHaughton

 

E-mail: Miriam can be contacted at: miriamhaughton@hotmail.com

 

 

Name: Monica Insinga

 

Research Profile: Monica is in her final year of Ph.D. at University College Dublin under the Graduate Research and Education Programme in 'Gender, Culture and Identities' funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Her thesis is a critical and comparative analysis of a number of works by the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934, and the internationally acclaimed Irish dramatist Marina Carr in terms of alternative identities, spaces and fates in modernist, postmodernist drama as well as theatre in vernacular. Monica presented at a number of conferences of Irish studies, Theatre studies as well as Comparative studies, including IASIL, ISTR and Pirandello Studies. She has co-organised two conferences, including 'The European Avant-Garde, 1890-1930', funded by the Graduate School of Arts and Celtic Studies, UCD, after which she co-edited a peer-reviewed collection of essays by the title of The European Avant-Garde: Text and Image, published by CSP in 2012. In 2010 she published her first peer-reviewed article for the Pirandello Studies Journal. Also in 2010 Monica was Visiting Scholar in Boston College, where she returned in 2011 as Guest Lecturer for the Department of Romance Languages.

 

Research Interests: Comparative Studies, Theatre Studies (Irish, Italian, European), Gender and Women's Studies, European Avant-Garde.

 

Links: UCD Research: http://www.ucd.ie/research/people/englishdramafilm/msmonicainsinga/

Humanities Institute of Ireland: http://www.ucd.ie/hii/people/graduateresearchers/monicainsinga/

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/edit?trk=tab_pro

Academia.edu: http://ucd-ie.academia.edu/MonicaInsinga/About

 

E-mail: Monica can be contacted at monica.insinga@ucdconnect.ie


 

 Name: Megan Minogue

 

Research Profile: Megan is a PhD student in the School of English at Queen's University Belfast.  She was awarded an Irish Studies Initiative Postgraduate Research Studentship for her Masters in Irish Writing, earned at Queen's in 2010. Supervised by Dr. Paul Murphy and Dr. Eamonn Hughes, Megan's doctoral research focuses on the representations and constructions of Protestant and loyalist identities in the works of Belfast dramatists Stewart Parker, Christina Reid, and Gary Mitchell.  Part of her research on loyalist masculinities is due to be published as a chapter in 'I Could Not Tell': The Representation of Memory & Trauma in Contemporary Northern Irish Culture, edited by Shane Alcobia-Murphy and Richard Kirkland, and an article on representations of Protestant and loyalist women will be published in the third issue of Studi irlandesi: A Journal of Irish Studies.  She has also written up a summary and analysis of Stewart Parker's television play The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner, which will appear in the British Film Institute's online database and research resource, www.screenonline.org.uk. During her time as a doctoral student, Megan has also co-chaired two conferences at Queen's, "New Voices in Irish Criticism: Legitimate Ireland" in 2012 and "Contemporary Gendered Performance and Practice", in April 2013. Both conferences received substantial funding from the Student Led Initiative and Queen's Annual Fund, with "New Voices also receiving funding from the School of English Internationalisation Fund.

 

Keywords: Gender Studies, Loyalism, Northern Irish Theatre, Television & Media

 

Websites: LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=88445738&trk=hb_tab_pro_top

Academia.edu: http://qub.academia.edu/MeganMinogue

School of English, Queen's: http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofEnglish/Research/DoctoralResearch/

Conference Blog: http://performinggender2013.wordpress.com/

 

Email: mminogue02@qub.ac.uk

 

 

Name: Caitriona Mary Reilly

 

Research Profile: Caitriona is a second year PhD candidate in the School of Creative Arts at Queen's University, Belfast.  She was awarded the Michael Barnes Scholarship for her MA study and is currently a recipient of a Studentship Award from The Department for Employment and Learning (DEL).  The working title of her doctoral thesis is 'Postfeminist Irish Performance, Theatre and Culture', supervised by Dr. Paul Murphy. The thesis aims to examine how contemporary theatre and performance reflects or interrogates the Irish postfeminist condition.  Caitriona is co-organiser of the 'Contemporary Gendered Performance & Practice Conference' (April 2013).  The conference has received support from both the Queen's Annual Fund and Student-Led Initiative Funding.  Caitriona is a member of both ISTR and Sibéal, and has presented at both their respective conferences.  She will be presenting papers at the forthcoming EFACIS conference in NUI Galway, and IFTR's New Scholars' Forum, Barcelona.

 

Keywords: Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance; Feminism/Postfeminism; Gender Studies

 

Links: Queen's Research: http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofCreativeArts/Drama/Research/PostgraduateResearchProfiles/CaitrionaReilly/

LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/caitriona-mary-reilly/45/8a8/915

Conference Blog: http://performinggender2013.wordpress.com/

 

Email: creilly19@qub.ac.uk