Curriculum Vitae (Academic/Teaching )

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  1. Education
  2. Publications
  3. Current work
  4. Conference presentations, symposia and public talks
  5. Conference convened
  6. Other activities (selected)
  7. Awards and funding
  8. Lecturing and Teaching

Education

  • BA (Honours) Fine Art (2000), Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork
  • PhD (2018), University College Cork
  • MA Modern and Contemporary Art (2010), University College Cork
  • H Dip Education, Art and Design Teaching (2009), Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork

Publications

  • Publications are listed here (opens in this site).

Current work

  • Ongoing research topics are here (opens on this site).
  • Section Editor [Cultural History and Memory; Visual Arts; Visual Culture], Open Cultural Studies, De Gruyter
  • Support to the academic community through peer review for academic articles and books.

Conference presentations, symposia and public talks

  • ‘Representations of the suffering of soldiers in German art of World War I’, The Soldier as Victim, Birmingham Newman University, 24 April 2024.
  • ‘The Contested Influence of Richard Müller on Otto Dix’, Taboo in Cultural Heritage, Reinwardt Academie, Amsterdam, 1-2 February 2024. Organised by the Open University of the Netherlands; Reinwardt Academie, University of the Arts; and the University of Amsterdam.
  • ‘The No More War movement and the Graphic Work of Käthe Kollwitz and her Contemporaries in post-World War I Germany’, Illustrating Conflict Symposium, History of the Printed Image Network, University of Birmingham, n conjunction with ArtsFest at the University of Wolverhampton, 19 October 2023.
  • ‘The No More War movement and the Graphic Work of Käthe Kollwitz and her Contemporaries in post-World War I Germany’, Illustrating Conflict Symposium, History of the Printed Image Network, University of Birmingham, n conjunction with ArtsFest at the University of Wolverhampton, 19 October 2023.
  • Guest lecture (video conference), ‘Käthe Kollwitz and the German No More War movement’, The Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah and Atlanta, Georgia, 9 February 2023.
  • Participation (presentations followed by Q+A) in roundtable event as part of the launch of the edited collection Artistic Expressions and the Great War, A Hundred Years On, ed. Sally Charnow, Hofstra University, New York, 23 September 2021 (online).
  • Guest lecture (video conference), ‘Käthe Kollwitz and the German No More War movement’, The Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah and Atlanta, Georgia, 8 February 2022.
  • Public lecture, ‘Otto Dix, War and Society’, Western Front Association (Cork Branch), 30 October 2019.
  • Public interview, Art, War and Memory in Twentieth Century Visual Culture, Galerie Spot, Zagreb, chaired by Prof. Leonida Kovač (University of Zagreb) and Dr Sandra Križić Roban (Galerie Spot), 18 January 2019.
  • ‘The Reception of Otto Dix’s triptych War at the Prussian Academy, October 1932’, at the conference Artistic Expressions and the Great War, A Hundred Years On, Hofstra University, New York, 7-9 November 2018.
  • ‘Memorialising World War I: Otto Dix’s Metropolis and the Reconfiguration of Militant Masculinity’ at the German Studies Association Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, 27-30 September 2018.
  • ‘Against a militarised culture: Re-assessing Käthe Kollwitz’s War series in post-World War I Germany’ (long paper), at the symposium The Aftermath of War, National Gallery of Ireland, 11 November 2017.
  • ‘The Sinking of the Lusitania: Art and the Propaganda War’, at the conference The Lusitania and the War at Sea, 1914-1918, University College Cork, 6 May 2015.
  • ‘The Memorialization of World War I in Germany: The Case of the Dresden School during the late Weimar    Republic’ at the conference Perspectives on the Great War, Queen Mary, University of London, 1-4 August 2014.
  • ‘The Artist as Witness and Participant in British, French and German Art of World War I’ (long paper), presented to the Western Front Association (Cork Branch), 10 December 2014.

Conference convened

  • War in the Visual Arts International Conference,University College Cork and Crawford Art Gallery, Cork. 100 speakers from across Europe, North America, Africa and Australia. 12.09—14.09.2013. Part-funded by Fáilte Ireland (Irish Tourist Board).

Other activities (selected)

  • Conducted public Q+A session with artist Ben Reilly in conjunction with his exhibition Graft (5 April – 3 May), Backwater Artists’ Studios, Cork, 17 April 2019.
  • Interviewed by Davor Konjikušićon on war in visual culture for his article Ann Murray: Umjetnici predosjećaju dolazak rata [Artists have a premonition of the coming of war], published in the cultural magazine Novosti Hobocin, Zagreb, published 12 February 2019. ttps://www.portalnovosti.com/ann-murray-umjetnici-predosjecaju-dolazak-rata
  • Erasmus Teaching Mobility – gave a series of lectures on post-World War I art to final year undergraduates and Masters students at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb, 14-18 January 2019.
  • Discussant for the panel ‘Weimar Representations of Women and Modernity’, German Studies Association Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, 27-30 September 2018.

Awards and funding

  • 2020 Awardee of a Charlemont Grant, Royal Irish Academy (International Research Mobility)
  • Erasmus Mobility Grant, 2019 (lecturing at the University of Zagreb)
  • National University of Ireland Grant towards Academic Publishing (2012 and 2017)
  • Fáilte Ireland Conference Grant, for the conference War in the Visual Arts, 2013
  • Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Doctoral Scholarship (full funding), 2012-2015.

Lecturing and Teaching

  • Spring 2025: Art Teacher, Oberstufenzentrum Märkisch-Oderland, Strausberg (Brandenburg), Germany. Developed a project on German Expressionism, where students learned about the arthistorical context of the movement, and developed their own expressionist portraits. Taught through German.
  • Post-primary Art Teacher, Hewitt College, Cork, 2008-2023. Subject teacher for fourth, fifth and sixth year students, and portfolio preparation for students intending to study art and design at third level.
  • Course Coordinator and Lecturer, History of Art, University College Cork, 2010-2019. Taught undergraduate students on a range of topics in Western Art from Classical Greece to 1945; coordinated and taught on the module ‘Irish Art for Visiting Students’; coordinated and taught the accredited Certificate in History of Art as part of UCC’s Adult Continuing Education programme.

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