External impact and engagement

Invited Talks

2022

“Some Thoughts on Futurity and Film”, Communications, Drama and Film Studies Research Seminar Series, University of Exeter, December 14^th.

2021

“Consume, Destroy, Evacuate: Aniara in the Anthropocene”, Film and Television Screen Studies Research Seminars, University of Exeter, November 24^th.

2020   

“In Our Immense Sarcophagus We Lay: Charting the Anthropocene in Aniara”, Environmentalism, Fantasy and Intersectionality Conference, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, November 6^th.

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlvvup5U4AA

2018    

“The Overlords Have Landed: Science Fiction Cinema and the European Project”, Centre for Interdisciplinary Film Research, University of Exeter, November 21^st.

2017    

“Night Watch/Nochnoy dozor”, From Russia With Film, Irish Film Institute, Dublin, April 11^th.

“Future Imperfect: Science, Fiction, Film”, Berlin Film Festival Retrospective, Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin, February 11^th.

“The Camel and the Hippopotamus: Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster and the European Project”, Film and Screen Media Invited Research Seminar Series, University College Cork, January 30^th.

2014   

“Tempering Dystopia: Science Fiction Film and the European Union”, Zemki Invited Speakers Series, Universität Bremen, Jan 9^th.

Conference Presentations

2018    

“Nation, Patriarchy and the Capitalist Death Drive in Catalan Science Fiction Cinema”, Bremen International Film Conference, City 46 Bremen, April 27^th.

2017

“There Once Was a Dream That Was Rome: The European Union and the Creation of the Future”, Science Fiction Research Association Conference, University of California, Riverside, July 1^st.

2016

“Utopia Interrupted: Connecting Science Fiction and European Integration”, NECS: In/Between Cultures of Connectivity, The Brandenburg Center for Media Studies, Potsdam, July 28^th.

2015

“Eurimages and the Funding of European Cinema”, Research Colloquium: Film Media Art and Popular Culture, Universität Bremen, Oct 27^th.

“Why Science Fiction? A Historical Overview”, University of Bremen Internal Research Workshop, Universität Bremen, July 6^th.

“Science Fiction as Creative Unit: Film Studies, Linguistics and Computer Science”, Film Media Art and Popular Culture, Universität Bremen, May 11^th.

“The Future is Now: An Introduction”, The Future is Now: Science Fiction Cinema as Audio-visual Blueprint of Histories, Spaces and Sounds, 20^th International Bremen Film Conference, City 46 Bremen, May 7^th.

2014    

“Vacations in Dystopia: Tourism, Culture and Authenticity in Science Fiction Cinema”, NECS: Creative Energies, Creative Industries, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milan, June 21^st.

“Reworking the Foundational Myths: Some Thoughts on Richard Fleischer’s Soylent Green”, Research Colloquium: Film Media Art and Popular Culture, Universität Bremen, May 26^th.

“Tourism and Science Fiction: Exploring a Novel Perspective”, Research Colloquium: Film Media Art and Popular Culture, Universität Bremen, April 29^th.

“Charting the End Times: ‘Authenticity’ in 21st Century European Science Fiction Cinema”, Society for Cinema & Media Studies, Seattle, March 21st.

2013    

“Crises and Beyond: Science Fiction and the European Union”, European Film Cultures: ECREA Film Studies Section Interim Conference, Lunds Universitet, Nov 9^th.

“Charting Filmic Responses to the Economic Crisis”, Research Colloquium: "Film, Media Art and Popular Culture", Universität Bremen, Oct 29^th.

“Science Fiction Cinema and the European Union”, Excellence Series, Universität Bremen, June 25^th.

“Community and Contemporary European Science Fiction Cinema”, Excellence Series, Universität Bremen, April 23^rd.

2012    

“Ragnarök Now: Moving Through the Interstices of Le temps du loup”, Cinema in the Interstices: Alphaville Inaugural Conference, University College Cork, Sep 7^th.

“Clementine Wore a White Ribbon: Collective Memory in Michael Haneke’s Das Weiße Band (and John Ford’s West)”, NECS 2012: Time Networks: Screen Media and Memory, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, June 22^nd.

2010    

“A Microcosmic Look at Travel and Diaspora in French Cinema”, Italian Research Seminar Series 2010-2011, University College Cork, Oct 29^th.

"The Last Tourist Office in Dystopia: Surveillance and the Metropolis", Transnational, Transcultural, Transmedial: European Cinema Today, University College Cork, May 14^th.

“Fallujah: East London. Terror, Order and the Digital Panopticon”, Irish Postgraduate Film Research Seminar, Trinity College Dublin, April 22^nd.

2009   

“Darkness on the Edge of Town: Borders and Peripheries in Contemporary Westerns”, The Graduate School: Annual Conference, University College Cork, Nov 19^th.

“A Weekend Break in the Country … with Zombies: Contrasting Space in 28 Days Later”, NECS 2009: Locating Media, Lunds Universitet, June 27^th.

“Echoes from Elsewhere: Diasporic Journeys through Contemporary French Cinema”, Anthropological Association of Ireland Conference, Queens University Belfast, May 1^st.

“Overheating the Melting Pot: Cultural Compositions in the Cinema of Michael Haneke”, Graduate Centre for Europe Conference, University of Birmingham, April 17^th. 

2008   

“Strangers in Dystopia: Identity and Nation in Contemporary English Science Fiction Cinema”, College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Conference, University College Cork, Nov 8^th.

“Spatial Relationships: Women in the Cinema of David Lean”, David Lean: 100th Anniversary Conference, Queen Mary, University of London, July 24^th.

Conference Organisation

2015    Co-organiser: “The Future is Now: Science Fiction Cinema as Audio-visual Blueprint of Histories, Spaces and Sounds”, 20^th International Bremen Film Conference, May 6^th-9^th. *part-funded by the German Research Council.

2012    Co-organiser: “Cinema in the Interstices: Alphaville Inaugural Conference”, University College Cork, Sep 7^th-9^th. *part-funded by The Irish Tourist Board. 

2010    Co-organiser: “Transnational, Transcultural, Transmedial: European Cinema Today”, University College Cork, May 14^th-15^th.

Modules taught

• EAF1501 - Major Debates in Film Theory
• EAF1504 - Introduction to Film History
• EAF2502 - Shots in the Dark
• EAF2510 - Adaptation: Text, Image, Culture
• EAF2512 - European Cinemas: Art, Industry, Entertainment
• EAF3519 - Cinema in the Anthopocene
• EAS1032 - Approaches to Criticism
• EAS1034 - Film Studies: An Introduction

Biography

I grew up in West Cork in Ireland. After finishing my PhD at University College Cork in 2012, I worked for three years as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Bremen. I returned to Ireland in 2016 where I took up a two year Government of Ireland Research Fellowship before moving to Exeter in 2018. Following a series of temporary contracts I became a permanent member of staff in 2021.