Jenny McDonnell teaches in the School of English
Sorcha Ni Fhlainn teaches American Literature, popular literature and cinema in the School of English, Trinity College, Dublin. Her PhD focused on Postmodernism and Subjectivity in Vampire Narratives in Fiction, Culture, and Film. She is a regular contributor to the Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies; she has published essays on Slashers and Reaganomics; The Joker from Burton and Nolan's Batman films; and Dracula adaptations in the 1970s (all with Rodopi Press). She recently edited a collection on monsters, Our Monstrous (S)kin: Blurring the Boundaries Between Monsters and Humanity for Inter-Disciplinary Press, Oxford (Feb, 2010). She has also recently completed a critical collection on the ‘Back to The Future Trilogy’, 'The Worlds of Back to the Future' for McFarland, North Carolina (due July 2010). She is particularly interested in The Gothic, (literary, cinematic and music); Postmodernism; Vampires and Serial Killers; The Horror Genre; Whistleblowers (and their narratives); the 1980s; and American History/Presidents.
Harvey O’Brien teaches film studies at University College Dublin. He is the author of The Real Ireland (Manchester, 2004) and co-editor of Keeping it Real (2004). He co-edits Film and Film Culture, the Irish journal of international film studies and has contributed to numerous journals, magazines, and book collections, including articles in Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, Éire-Ireland, Film Ireland, and Cineaste. His latest book is a forthcoming volume on Action Movies from Wallflower Press (2010).
David Shackleton took philosophy as an undergraduate and is currently studying literature as a DPhil student at Oxford University. His thesis is on deep time in fin de siecle and modernist novels. Previously, he followed a Masters course at University College London, before which he lived in Paris.
Jim Shanahan is a former IRCHSS post-doctoral research fellow whose main areas of interest lie in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Irish fiction. He has published articles on a wide range of issues from Welsh romanticism to Irish proto-modernism, and is currently working on a book about the 1798 rebellion in nineteenth-century fiction. He currently teaches in TCD, St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, and with Boston University.
Wendy Sijnesael is in the first year of her PhD in History of Art (co-supervised Classics and Ancient History) at the University of Bristol, working on Lawrence Alma Tadema's use of antiquities. During her MA in Ancient History (Nijmegen, the Netherlands) she took particular interest in reception studies and did minors in Museum-and Heritage Studies at the University of Amsterdam.
Jim Shanahan is a former IRCHSS post-doctoral research fellow whose main areas of interest lie in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Irish fiction. He has published articles on a wide range of issues from Welsh romanticism to Irish proto-modernism, and is currently working on a book about the 1798 rebellion in nineteenth-century fiction. He currently teaches in TCD, St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, and with Boston University.
Caroline Sumpter is a lecturer in Victorian Literature at Queen’s University, Belfast
