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Noreen Giffney

BA (NUI), PhD (NUI)

Junior Lecturer in Women’s Studies, Department of Sociology

I studied for a BA (Hons) in English and history at University College Dublin, where I also completed a PhD thesis in the Department of Medieval History on atrocity propaganda, monstrosity, apocalypticism and textual analysis. Before coming to the University of Limerick, I taught at University College Dublin for eleven years in the areas of history, film, cultural theory and gender and sexuality studies. I am currently undertaking clinical training in the object relations tradition of psychoanalysis in the Department of Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin, in association with the Irish Forum for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (IFPP).

Research Interests

I work on desire, identity and the relationship between the two. My research and teaching interests can be divided more specifically into four main areas:

1.      Gender and sexuality, particularly feminist theory and queer theory

2.      Psychoanalysis, with an emphasis on the work of Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein and the object relations tradition

3.      Critical theory, concentrating on postmodernism, poststructuralism and posthumanism

4.      Cultural studies, especially discourses of embodiment, horror cinema and New Queer Cinema

 Teaching

  • Theoretical Approaches to Gender, Culture and Society (MA core module, convener).
  • Gender, Identity, Culture and Society (4th-year option module, convener).

Current Event Organisation

  • Postgraduate Open Forum (doctoral level, co-ordinator; 2008- ).
  • Gender, Culture and Society Seminar Series (organiser; 2008- ).
  • The(e)ories: Critical Theory and Sexuality Studies, co-organised with Michael O’Rourke (2002- ) http://normick.tripod.com
  • Commemorating Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950-2009), one-day intensive, interdisciplinary seminar, co-organised with Michael O’Rourke (Saturday 7 November 2009 at Independent Colleges, Dublin), and co-sponsored by The(e)ories: Critical Theory and Sexuality Studies and the School of Psychotherapy at Independent Colleges, Dublin. http://normick.tripod.com

Research Supervision

I have supervised postgraduate and undergraduate theses in the areas of feminist theory, queer theory, lesbian studies, masculinity studies, education and cultural studies (film, television, literature, performance). I have acted as internal examiner for postgraduate theses in the areas of feminist theory and cultural studies (visual culture, cosmetic surgery).

Publications

(1)  Book Series

I am the series editor (with Michael O’Rourke) of two academic book series in the areas of gender and sexuality, critical theory, cultural studies and sociology.

Queer Interventions (Ashgate), series editor with Michael O’Rourke. http://www.ashgate.com/queerinterventions

Published and forthcoming books in this series include:

·         Sally R. Munt, Queer Attachments: The Cultural Politics of Shame (2007).

·         Patricia MacCormack, Cinesexuality (2008).

·         Noreen Giffney and Myra J. Hird (eds.), Queering the Non/Human (2008).

·         Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh (eds.), Queer Movie Medievalisms (2009).

·         Frederick S. Roden (ed.), Jewish/Christian/Queer: Crossroads and Identities (2009).

·         John Beynon and Caroline Gonda (eds.), Lesbian Dames: Sapphism in Eighteenth-Century England (2009).

·       Nikki Sullivan and Samantha Murray (eds.), Somatechnics: Queering the Technologisation of Bodies (2009).

·         M. Morgan Holmes (ed.), Critical Intersex (2009).

·         Noreen Giffney and Michael O’Rourke (eds.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory (2009).

·         Stephen Guy-Bray, Vin Nardizzi and Will Stockton (eds.), Queer Renaissance Historiography: Backward Gaze (2009).

·         David V. Ruffolo, Post-Queer Politics (2010).

·         Richard C. Cante, Gay Men and the Form(s) of Contemporary US Culture (2010).

Cultural Connections: Key Thinkers and Queer Theory (University of Wales Press; distributed internationally by the University of Chicago Press), series co-editor with Michael O’Rourke.

Description: This series includes new and innovative work on critical, ethical and political theory and the study of gender and sexuality. The series promotes research which (a) analyses the theoretical output and key ideas of various influential figures in critical theory, philosophy and identity studies which productively intersects with, underpins and is informed by queer theory; (b) the inter-relationships between queer theory and a range of other theoretical schools of thought, projects or methodologies; and (c) the importance of queer theory for thinking about a number of key critical and theoretical concepts.

The first book to be published in this series will be Ernesto Laclau and Queer Theory by Samuel A. Chambers.

(2)  Journal Editing

Humanities Book Review Editor, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (Duke University Press). I commission lengthy review articles on themes of scholarly interest.  http://glq.dukejournals.org

(3)  Books and Journal Issues

Twenty-First Century Lesbian Studies (Taylor and Francis 2007), co-edited with Katherine O’Donnell.

Queering the Non/Human [Queer Interventions book series] (Ashgate 2008), co-edited with Myra J. Hird.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory [Queer Interventions book series] (Ashgate 2009) with Michael O’Rourke.

Queer Theory [The Key Concepts book series] (Berg 2010).

The Lesbian Premodern [The New Middle Ages book series] (Palgrave Macmillan 2010), co-edited with Michelle M. Sauer and Diane Watt.

Theory on the Edge: Irish Studies and the Politics of Sexual Difference [Essays in Honour of Ailbhe Smyth] (The Woodfield Press 2010), co-edited with Margrit Shildrick.

The History Review 12 (2001; vi+209 pp.), co-edited with Coleman A. Dennehy.

The History Review 13 (2002; vi+207 pp.), co-edited with Coleman A. Dennehy.

‘Genealogies, Readings and Theories’, a special double issues of The Journal of Lesbian Studies 11:1-2 (2007), co-edited with Katherine O’Donnell.

‘Identities and Locations’, a special double issue of The Journal of Lesbian Studies 11: 3-4 (2007), co-edited with Katherine O’Donnell.

(4)  Journal Articles and Book Chapters (copies are available upon request)

‘Que(e)rying Mongols’, Medieval Feminist Forum 28 (2003). Feminist Theory 5.1 (2004).

‘Denormatizing Queer Theory: More than (Simply) Lesbian and Gay Studies', Feminist Theory 5.1 (2004).

‘Quare Éire’, The Journal of Lesbian Studies 11.3-4 (2007).

‘Quare Theory’, in Moynagh Sullivan, Anne Mulhall and Wanda Balzano (eds.),

Irish Postmodernisms and Popular Culture (Palgrave Macmillan 2007); a revised version of this essay appears in English, French and Dutch in Avoden van Sophia/Soirees de Sophia (2008).

 ‘The “E(ve)” in The(e)ories: Dreamreading Sedgwick in Retrospective Time’, Irish Feminist Review 3 (2007), co-authored with Michael O’Rourke.

 ‘Twenty-First Century Lesbian Studies’, in Noreen Giffney and Katherine O’Donnell (eds.), Twenty-First Century Lesbian Studies (Taylor and Francis 2007).

‘Queer Apocal(o)ptic/ism: The Death Drive and the Human’, in Noreen Giffney and Myra J. Hird (eds.), Queering the Non/Human [Queer Interventions] (Ashgate 2008).

‘Queering the Non/Human’, in Noreen Giffney and Myra J. Hird (eds.), Queering the Non/Human [Queer Interventions] (Ashgate 2008), co-authored with Myra J. Hird.

‘The “q” Word’, in Noreen Giffney and Michael O’Rourke (eds.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory (Ashgate 2009).

‘The New Queer Cartoon’, in Noreen Giffney and Michael O’Rourke (eds.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory (Ashgate 2009).

‘The Lesbian Premodern’, in Noreen Giffney, Michelle M. Sauer and Diane Watt (eds.), The Lesbian Premodern [The New Middle Ages] (Palgrave Macmillan 2010).

‘The(e)ories of Gender and Sexuality’, in Noreen Giffney and Margrit Shildrick (eds.), Theory on the Edge: Irish Studies and the Politics of Sexual Difference [Essays in Honour of Ailbhe Smyth] (The Woodfield Press 2010).

‘Pre/post/human/ism/s’, an invited response to ‘When Did We Become Posthuman?’, a special issue of Postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies, 1.1 (2010).

‘Monstrous Mongols’, under review with Postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies (Palgrave Macmillan).

‘Reading Bracha L. Ettinger’s The Matrixial Borderspace’ for Studies in the Maternal, a peer-reviewed online journal (www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk/journal.html), with Anne Mulhall and Michael O’Rourke.

(5)  Series Editors’ Prefaces (copies are available upon request)

‘After Shame’, series editors’ preface for Sally R. Munt, Queer Attachments: The Cultural Politics of Shame [Queer Interventions book series] (Ashgate 2007), co-authored with Michael O’Rourke.

‘For the Love of Cinema’, series editors’ preface for Patricia MacCormack, Cinesexuality [Queer Interventions book series] (Ashgate 2008), co-authored with Michael O’Rourke.

‘Always, Already, Still Medieval’, series editors’ preface for Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh (eds.), Queer Movie Medievalisms [Queer Interventions book series] (Ashgate 2009), co-authored with Michael O’Rourke.

‘Cross-Identifications’, series editors’ preface for Frederick S. Roden (ed.), Jewish/Christian/Queer [Queer Interventions book series] (Ashgate 2009), co-authored with Michael O’Rourke.

‘Originary Somatechnicity’, series editors’ preface for Nikki Sullivan and Samantha Murray (eds.), Somatechnics: Queering the Technologisation of Bodies [Queer Interventions book series] (Ashgate 2009), co-authored with Michael O’Rourke.

‘Intersex Trouble; or How to Bring Your Kids Up Intersex’, series editors’ preface for M. Morgan Holmes (ed.), Critical Intersex [Queer Interventions book series] (Ashgate 2009), co-authored with Michael O’Rourke.

Series editors’ preface for John Beynon and Caroline Gonda (eds.), Sapphic Dames: Lesbianism in Eighteenth-Century England [Queer Interventions book series] (Ashgate 2009), co-authored with Michael O’Rourke.

Series editors’ preface for Stephen Guy-Bray, Vin Nardizzi and Will Stockton (eds.), Queer Renaissance Historiography: Backward Gaze [Queer Interventions book series] (Ashgate 2009), co-authored with Michael O’Rourke.

Series editors’ preface for David V. Ruffolo, Post-Queer Politics [Queer Interventions book series] (Ashgate 2010), co-authored with Michael O’Rourke.

Current Research

I am currently involved in two major research projects: a monograph entitled Objects of Desire: Queer Theory and Melanie Klein and a collection of essays, Clinical Encounters: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory, which I am co-editing with Eve Watson, a Lacanian psychoanalyst based in Dublin. To facilitate this research and develop my personal interest in psychoanalysis as a therapeutic endeavour, I am undertaking clinical training in the object relations tradition of psychoanalysis in the Department of Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin, in association with the Irish Forum for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (IFPP). Objects of Desire focuses on the debt that queer theory owes to the object relations tradition of psychoanalysis while examining what queer theory might bring to the work of Melanie Klein and the post-Kleinians. Clinical Encounters brings together cultural critics who specialise in queer theory and practising psychoanalysts from different traditions to discuss two questions: how might cultural critics introduce queer theory to psychoanalytic practitioners? What might the theoretical efforts of cultural specialists in gender and sexuality offer psychoanalysts for their clinical work?

Past Event Organisation

  • Dublin Queer Studies Group, co-organised with Michael O’Rourke (2001-2002).

  • Horror Cinema Discussion Forum, co-organised with Paula Fogarty (2006-2007).

  • Feminist Research Seminar Series, co-organised with Kate Antosik Parsons, Diane Nititham Sabenacio and Leslie Sherlock (2006-2007).

  • The(e)ories: Critical Theory and Sexuality Studies, co-organised with Michael O’Rourke (2002- ) http://normick.tripod.com

    • 06/09 ‘Reading Leo Bersani: A Retrospective’ with Michael O’Rourke and Anne Mulhall. University College Dublin. 3 days.

    • 04/09 ‘Reading Bracha L. Ettinger’s The Matrixial Borderspace’ with Michael O’Rourke and Anne Mulhall. University College Dublin. 2 days.

    • 07/08 ‘Gender, Sexuality and Bioethics’ with Michael O’Rourke. University College Dublin. 2 days.

    • 05/08 ‘Sexuality and Phenomenology: Reading Sara Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology’ with Michael O’Rourke. University College Dublin. 2 days.

    • 07/07 ‘Deconstruction and Queer Theory After Jacques Derrida’ with Michael O’Rourke. University College Dublin. 2 days.

    • 07/07 ‘Sexuality and the Death Drive: Reading Lee Edelman’s No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive’ with Anne Mulhall. University College Dublin. 2 days.

    • 03/07 ‘Subverting What? Perversion, Transgression and Normalisation in Queer Theory and Psychoanalysis’ with Michael O’Rourke. University College Dublin. 2 days.

    • 07/06 ‘Lesbian Studies and the Premodern: At the Intersections’ with Diane Watt. University of Leeds. 1 day.

    • 06/06 ‘Heterosexuality After Queer Theory’ with Michael O’Rourke. University College Dublin. 2 days.

    • 03/06 ‘Gender, Sexuality and Horror Cinema’. University College Dublin. 3 days.

    • 09/05 ‘Reading Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: A Retrospective, 1980-2005’ with Michael O’Rourke. University College Dublin. 4 days.

    • 09/04 ‘An Audience with Judith Butler’ with Michael O’Rourke. University College Dublin. 2 days.

    • 05/04 ‘Putting the Camp into Campus and the Queer into Theory: An Evening with Judith Halberstam’, including a performance by the Shamcocks, Dublin’s dragking troupe. University College Dublin. 1 day.

    • 11/03 ‘Queer Studies: Pros, Cons and “Futural Imaginings”’ with Michael O’Rourke. University College Dublin. 1 day.

    • 10/02 ‘Queer Studies: Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?’ with Michael O’Rourke. University College Dublin. 1 day.

  • Roundtable discussions and panels of academic papers

    • 02/05 ‘Are We Post-Queer Yet?’ Lesbian Lives XII: The Closet. University College Dublin.

    • 07/03 ‘Mongol Studies: The State of the Field’, International Congress of the European Middle Ages. University of Leeds.

    • 07/03 ‘The Holy and the Unholy: Theoretical Approaches to Good and Evil in the Middle Ages, International Congress of the European Middle Ages. University of Leeds.

    • 02/03 ‘Freaks of Nature? Queering the (Non-) Human’, Lesbian Lives X: Looking Back, Thinking Forward. University College Dublin.

    • 07/02 ‘Representations of the Medieval in Modern Fantasy Fiction’, International Congress of the European Middle Ages. University of Leeds.

    • 02/02 ‘Problems in the Writing of Irish Women’s History’. University College Dublin.

  • Conferences

    • 10/06 Research, Rhetoric and Reality with Kate Antosik Parsons, Leslie Sherlock and Diane Sabenacio Nititham. 2 days. University College Dublin.

    • 07/06 Future*Queer with Michael O’Rourke. 2 days. University College Dublin.

    • 02/04 Lesbian Lives, Studies and Activism since The Lesbian Postmodern with Katherine O’Donnell. 3 days. University College Dublin.

    • 04/01 First Combined Departments of History Postgraduate Conference with postgraduate students. 1 day. University College Dublin.

Presentations and Invited Lectures

  • Giffney, N. and E. Watson (05/09) ‘Queer Theory in Psychoanalytic Practice: What Might Clinicians and Cultural Theorists Have to Say to One Another about Gender and Sexuality?’, Gender, Culture and Society Seminar Series, University of Limerick.

  • Giffney, N. and E. Watson (05/09) ‘Clinical Encounters: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory’, Gender and Queer Theory Seminar Series, Queen’s University, Belfast. Day-long plenary event.

  • Giffney, N. (10/08) ‘Queer Theory and Posthumanism’, The Persistence of Identity, University of Amsterdam. Invited.

  • Giffney, N. (02/08) ‘Objects of Desire: Queer Theory and the Non/Human’, Love Objects: Engaging Material Culture. National College of Art and Design, Dublin.

  • Giffney, N. (12/07) Contributor to ‘We’re Used to It: Institutionalizing LGBT, Sexuality, and Queer Studies in the Academy’ Roundtable Discussion, Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention, Chicago. Invited.

  • Giffney, N. (08/07) ‘Lezploitation Movies’, Gaze: Dublin Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. Dublin. Invited.

  • Giffney, N. (07/07), ‘No Future and the Posthuman’, Sexuality and the Death Drive: Reading Lee Edelman’s No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. University College Dublin.

  • Giffney, N. (05/07) ‘No Future, Freud and the Death Drive’, Riding the Third Wave: New Masculinities and the Queering of Gender. Deparment of English, University of Wales, Swansea. Invited.

  • Giffney, N. (05/07) ‘Queer Apocal(o)ptic/ism’, Feminist Research Seminar Series. University College Dublin.

  • Giffney, N. (03/07), ‘Psychoanalytic Theories of the Death Drive’, Gilles Deleuze Workshop. University College Dublin.

  • Giffney, N. (07/06) ‘Queer Theory After Queer Theory’, After Queer Theory. Christ’s College, Cambridge. Invited.

  • Giffney, N. (07/06) ‘“They Do Not Eat Men, But They Devour Them”: Reading the Mongols through Writings on Sodomy’, Queer People: New Directions in the Histories of Sexualities 1280-1868. Christ’s College, Cambridge.

  • Giffney, N. (04/06) ‘Relations Between Queer Theory and Feminism’, SOPHIA: Belgian Coordination Network of Women’s Studies. Brussels. Invited.

  • Giffney, N. (10/06) ‘Quare Theory’, Research, Rhetoric and Reality. University College Dublin.

  • Giffney, N. (07/06) ‘Quare Theory’, FutureQueer. University College Dublin.

  • Giffney, N. (07/06) ‘Lesbian Studies and Medieval Studies: At the Intersections’, International Congress of the European Middle Ages. University of Leeds.

  • Giffney, N. and M. O’Rourke (06/05) ‘Queer In(ter)ventions’, Queer(y)ing Psychology. Open University, Milton Keynes. Invited.

  • Giffney, N. (02/06) ‘Sleeping with the Enemy? Proliferating Queer/Lesbian Genealogies’, Lesbian Lives, XIII: Historicising the Lesbian. University College Dublin.

  • Giffney, N. (07/05) ‘Queer Theory’s Middle Ages: The Ironies of Ahistoricism’, International Congress of the European Middle Ages. University of Leeds.

  • Giffney, N. (05/05) ‘Intersex and Binarised Notions of Sex’, GenderQueer Film Series. Outhouse LGBT Community Centre, Dublin. Invited.

  • Giffney, N. (04/05) ‘From Hetero-Species Desire to Homo-Species Desire in One Hour and a Half: Closet Anxiety, or When a Woman Loves an Ogre’, Queer Keywords. University College Dublin April 2005.

  • Giffney, N. (12/04) ‘Who’s that Slug in My Closet? Tracing the Contours of Lesbianism in Monsters, Inc. and Other Cartoons’, Queer Studies Seminar Series. University College London.

  • Giffney, N. (02/05) ‘Are We Post-Queer Yet? Some Possible Futures for Queer Theory’, Lesbian Lives Conference XII: The Closet. University College Dublin.

  • Giffney, N. (05/04) ‘“Leave It Alone, It’s Just For Kids?” Queering the Cartoon’, Queer Matters. King’s College, London.

  • Giffney, N., K. O’Donnell and K. Roen (02/04) ‘Representing Lesbian Feminism: Controversial Voices’, Lesbian Lives, Studies and Activism Since The Lesbian Postmodern. University College Dublin.

  • Giffney, N. (11/03) ‘Que(e)rying Mongols’, Sexuality after Foucault. University of Manchester.

  • Giffney, N. (07/03) ‘The Perverse Erotics of Antichrist: A Theoretical Examination of Evil in the Middle Ages’, International Congress of the European Middle Ages. University of Leeds.

  • Giffney, N. (07/03) ‘Theorising Mongols: Turning the Field Inside/Out’, International Congress of the European Middle Ages. University of Leeds.

  • Giffney, N. (07/03) ‘“The Absurdity of Heterosexuality”: Representations of Sexuality in Eyes Wide Shut’, The(e)ories: Advanced Seminars for Queer Research. University College Dublin.

  • Giffney, N. (06/03) ‘Queering Shrek’, BiCon: The Second International Conference on Bisexuality, Outhouse LGBT Community Centre, Dublin.

  • Giffney, N. (03/03) ‘“The Opening of the Sixth Seal”: Medieval Apocalypticism in Modern Fantasy Fiction’, School of History Open Postgraduate Seminar Series. University College Dublin.

  • Giffney, N. (02/03) ‘“And They Lived Ugly Ever After”: Cross-Species Desire in Shrek’, Lesbian Lives X: Looking Back, Thinking Forward. University College Dublin.

  • Giffney, N. (01/03) ‘Unpacking Sheila’s Politics:  The “Queer” in Unpacking Queer Politics’, Sexualities, Cultures and Identities Conference: New Directions in Gay, Lesbian and Queer Studies. University of Newcastle.

  • Giffney, N. (10/02) ‘Denormatising Queer Theory: More Than (Simply) Lesbian and Gay Studies’, Dublin Queer Studies Plenary Roundtable Discussion. University College Dublin.

  • Giffney, N. (07/02) ‘More Than (Simply) Sexuality: Queer Theory and Medieval (Non-) Normativities’, International Congress of the European Middle Ages. University of Leeds.

  • Giffney, N. (07/02) ‘“Blood and Ashes”: Medieval Apocalypticism in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time’, International Congress of the European Middle Ages. University of Leeds.

  • Giffney, N. (03/02) ‘Que(e)rying Mongols: A Theoretical Examination of Thirteenth-Century Western Propaganda’, Borderlines Conference VI – Gossip and Graffiti: Unofficial Discourses in the Middle Ages. The University of Dublin, Trinity College.

  • Giffney, N. (02/02) ‘Two Dirty Words: Can Historians Learn Anything from Queer Theory?’ School of History Open Postgraduate Seminar Series. University College Dublin.

  • Giffney, N. (02/02) ‘Murderers, Rapists, Cannibals and Mutilators: Queer Theory and the Mongols’, Lesbian Lives IX: Love and Fear. February 2002. University College Dublin.

  • Giffney, N. (01/02) ‘Racially Queer: The Mongols in Mid-Thirteenth Century Eastern European Propaganda’, Seeing Gender Conference: Perspectives on Medieval Gender and Sexuality. King’s College, London.

  • Giffney, N. (07/01) ‘The Tartar Relation as Propaganda: An Analysis of C. de Bridia’s Overlooked Intentions’, International Congress of the European Middle Ages, University of Leeds.

  • Giffney, N. (04/01) ‘“The Age is Drowned in Blood”: Thirteenth-Century Polish Propaganda and the Mongol Invasion of Eastern Europe’, First School of History Postgraduate Conference. University College Dublin.

  • Giffney, N. (04/01) ‘What Should a Lesbian Literary Criticism Be Concerned With?’ Lesbian/Gay/Queer Studies Forum, The University of Dublin, Trinity College.

  • Giffney, N. (03/01) ‘The Mongols, the West and Propaganda: A Re-Interpretation of the Tartar Relation’, Travellers and Texts in the Middle Ages Seminar Series, Linacre College, Oxford.

  • Giffney, N. (02/01) ‘Organising Postgraduate Research and MA/MLitt/PhD Thesis-Writing Skills’, Combined Departments of History Postgraduate Seminars. University College Dublin.

  • Giffney, N. (09/00) ‘Setting and Evaluating Undergraduate Written Work’, Combined Departments of History Workshop for Postgraduate Tutors. University College Dublin.

  • Giffney, N. (09/00) ‘Historical Perspectives on Leadership’, New Era Introductory History Workshop. University College Dublin.

  • Giffney, N. (03/98) ‘Western Reactions to the Mongol Invasion of Eastern Europe, 1221-56’, Department of Medieval History Postgraduate Seminars. University College Dublin.

International Memberships

  • Research Affiliate, Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe, University of Exeter.

  • Research Associate, Somatechnics Research Centre, Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia.

  • Member, Queer(y)ing Psychology Collective, Open University, Milton Keynes.

  • Member, The BABEL Working Group, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, USA

  • Editorial Board, Postmedieval:  A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies (Palgrave Macmillan).

  • Editorial Board, Journal of Lesbian Studies (Haworth Press/Taylor and Francis). 2006-2008.

  • Editorial Board, International Journal of Queer Studies in Finland (electronic peer-reviewed journal).

National and International Collaborators

I have worked with a wide range of academics and professionals at a number of international universities in the preparation of events and publications. I am currently collaborating with the following people on academic events and publications:

  • Professor Ann Cvetkovich, Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

  • Professor Myra J. Hird, School of Sociology, Queen’s University, Canada

  • Professor Annamarie Jagose, Department of Film, Television and Media Studies, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

  • Dr Anne Mulhall, Irish Studies, School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin, Ireland

  • Michael O’Rourke, The(e)ories: Critical Theory and Sexuality Studies, Dublin, Ireland

  • Professor Michelle M. Sauer, Department of English, University of North Dakota, USA

  • Dr Margrit Shildrick, Gender Studies, School of Sociology, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland

  • Eve Watson, Lacanian Psychoanalyst and Head of Psychoanalysis, Independent Colleges, Dublin, Ireland

  • Professor Diane Watt, Head of Department of English, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales

 

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