Biography
Caoilfhionn Ní Bheacháin is a Lecturer in Communications in the Department of Management and Marketing at the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick. Prior to joining the faculty at UL, she studied at Trinity College Dublin and at the National University of Ireland (NUI). While at NUI Galway, she was awarded an IRCHSS Government of Ireland Scholarship and a NUI Postgraduate Research Fellowship for her doctoral research. At UL, she teaches on undergraduate and postgraduate modules in the fields of Communications and Cultural Studies. She has twice been shortlisted for ULs Centre for Teaching and Learning excellence award (2008 and 2013), and she won the award for Excellence in Teaching (large groups) in 2008. She has participated in the Erasmus Teaching Mobility Programme and completed teaching exchanges with the University of Barcelona in 2010 and 2011. Her research interests are situated at the interface between communications and cultural studies, and they include: Communication and Cultural Theory; New Media and Business Communication; Critical Marketing and Business Ethics; Intellectual Networks; Cultural and Literary History. She has published in journals such as the Journal of Victorian Culture, Eire-Ireland, Estudios Irlandeses and Irish Migration Studies in Latin America. She has supervised PhDs in the area of intellectual and literary coteries, and on visual communication and design. A long-standing member of the UL Environmental Committee, she is committed to education for sustainable development.
Research Interests
Cultural and Communication History
Popular Culture
Critical Marketing and Business Ethics
Intellectual, Publishing and Literary Networks
Teaching Interests
Current Modules (2017-18):
CM4203: Communications
MK6132: Marketing and Popular Culture
CM6102: Communications for Business
CM8003: Research Networks
Professional Activities
Committee
- 2017 Irish Women's Writing Network 1880-1920,
- UL Environmental Committee,
- Coiste na Gaeilge ,
Award
- 2013 - Shortlisted for the University of Limerick Teaching Excellence Award (Small-Group Teaching Category)
- 2008 - Winner of the University of Limerick Teaching Excellence Award (Large-Group Teaching Category)
- 1999 - IRCHSS Government of Ireland Doctoral Scholarship
- 1998 - NUI Postgraduate Research Fellowship
Association
- Member, American Conference of Irish Studies
- Member, AEDEI Asociacíon Española de Estudios Irlandeses (Spanish Association for Irish Studies)
- Member, Society for Irish Latin American Studies
- Member, Association of Franco-Irish Studies
Other
- External Examiner for Waterford Institute of Technology 2017-present
Publications
Book Chapter
The Seeds Beneath the Snow: Resignation and Resistance in Teresa Deevy's Wife to James Whelan
Ni Bheachain, C.
Irish Women Writers: New Critical Perspectives
We are of necessity anti-imperialists: Irish Republicans and Empire, 1922-39
Ní Bheacháin, C.
Enemies of Empire: new perspectives on imperialism, literature and history
'Ireland a warning to India': Anti-Imperialist Solidarity in the Irish Free State
Ni Bheachain, C
Ireland and India: Colonies, Culture and Empire
Paperback Mother
O'Malley, L; Patterson, M; Ni Bheachain, C
Consuming Books: The Marketing and Consumption of Literature
Conference Publication
Third Galway Conference of Irish Studies 2019 What is it to dwell?: Home(s) in Irish Studies
Caoilfhionn Ni Bheachain
Irish Activist Histories
Caoilfhionn Ni Bheachain
Irish Society for Theatre Research
Caoilfhionn Ni Bheachain
Transatlantic Women III: Women of the Green Atlantic
Caoilfhionn Ni Bheachain and Angus Mitchell
Irish Women Playwrights and Theatremakers
Ni Bheachain, Caoilfhionn
Irish Time? Temporalities in Irish Literature and Culture
Ni Bheachain, Caoilfhionn
Womens History Association of Ireland: Gender and Class
Ni Bheachain, Caoilfhionn and Mitchell, Angus
12th Conference of the Association of Franco-Irish Studies
Ni Bheachain, Caoilfhionn and Mitchell, Angus
Academy of Marketing
Lynch, L., C. Ni Bheacháin and M. Patterson
Occluded Narratives: Researching Irish Womens Writing 1880-1910
Mitchell, A; Ni Bheachain, C
Mise Éire? Shaping a Nation through Design
Ni Bheachain, C
Academy of Marketing 2015: "The Magic in Marketing"
Ni Bheachain, C.
Academy of Marketing
Lynch, L; Patterson, M; Ni Bheacháin, C
Locating the Gothic
Ni Bheachain, C.
Womens Memory Work: Gendered Dilemmas of Social Transformation
Ni Bheachain, C.
The Campus Engage International Conference
Ni Bheachain, C. and Fitzpatrick, C.
Where Ghosts Live
Ni Bheachain, C.
Narrative Encounters: New Perspectives on Narration
Ni Bheachain, C.
Irish Women Writers: National and European Contexts
Ni Bheachain, C.
Irish Feminist Thought Conference
Ni Bheachain, C.
Seeing Things: Irish Studies and Visual Culture
Ni Bheachain, C.
Seventh European Association for Consumer Research Conference
OMalley, L., Patterson, M. and Ní Bheacháin, C
Fourth Galway Conference on Colonialism: India and Ireland
Ni Bheachain, C.
Enemies of Empire Conference
Ni Bheachain, C.
Other Publication
Reflections on the Shuttle Hive: Crafting, Memory and Material Culture
Ni Bheachain, Caoilfhionn
The Shuttle Hive: A Century of Rising Threads
"Let's Shop" - Review of Empire of Things: How we became a world of consumers from the fifteenth century to the Twenty-First
Ni Bheachain, Caoilfhionn
Dublin Review of Books
Review of The Literature of Ireland: Culture and Criticism
Ni Bheachain, C
College Literature
Review of States of Conflict: Gender, Violence and Resistance
Ni Bheachain, C.
The Irish Journal of Feminist Studies
Peer Reviewed Journal
Alice Stopford Green and Vernon Lee: Salon Culture and Intellectual Exchange
Ní Bheacháin, C. and Mitchell, A.
Journal Of Victorian Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcz053
"Visual Literacy in Consumption: Consumers, Brand Aesthetics and the Curated Self"
Lynch, L. Patterson, M. and Ní Bheacháin, C
European Journal Of Marketing
Conscience as Compass: Creative Encounters between Ireland and Latin America
Ni Bheachain, C. and Mitchell, A.
Irish Migration Studies in Latin America
Seeing Ghosts: Gothic Discourses and State Formation
Ni Bheachain, C
Eire-Ireland
Sexuality, Marriage and Womens Life Narratives in Teresa Deevys A Disciple (1931), The King of Spains Daughter (1935) and Katie Roche (1936)
Ni Bheachain, C.
Estudios Irlandeses
The mosquito press: Anti-imperialist rhetoric in republican journalism, 1926-39
Ni Bheachain, Caoilfhionn
Eire-Ireland
Undergraduate Students' Perceptions of Technology-supported Learning: The Case of an Accounting Class
Flynn, A ; Concannon, F; Ni Bheachain, C
International Journal On E-Learning