Professor Gerardine Meaney BA MA PhD
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Biography:
| Gerardine Meaney is Vice-Principal for Research and Innovation in the College of Arts and Celtic Studies, Director of the Centre for the Study of Gender, Culture and Identities and of the IRCHSS funded Graduate Research and Education Programme in Gender, Culture and Identities. She was previously Director of Irish Studies and Director of the Centre for Film Studies at University College Dublin. She is the author of (Un)like Subjects: Women, Theory, Fiction (London and New York: Routledge, 1993), a co-editor of the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing: Women’s Writing and Traditions, volumes 4 and 5 (Cork: Cork University Press, 2002), a study of Pat Murphy’s film, Nora (Cork: Cork University Press and the Film Institute of Ireland, 2004) and of numerous articles on gender and Irish culture, with particular emphasis on Film, Literature and Drama. Previoust research projects include the ‘Women in Modern Irish Culture’ database, with Professor Maria Luddy (University of Warwick), funded by the AHRC; ‘Women in Public and Cultural Life in Twentieth Century Ireland’ with Dr Bernadette Whelan (University of Limerick) and Professor Mary O’Dowd (Queen’s University Belfast), funded by the HEA North-South Research collaboration programme. Current projects include Inventing and Reinventing the Irish Woman with Dr Bernadette Whelan (University of Limerick) and Professor Mary O’Dowd (Queen’s University Belfast) funded by IRCHSS and an edition of the Diaries of Rosamond Jacob, 1908-60, also with Professor Luddy, funded by the University of Warwick and the Irish Women’s History Project. She is general editor of the Liverpool University Press series of new critical editions of Irish Women’s Writing. |
Research Interests
| Cultural Theory, Feminist Theory, Gender and Culture in Ireland, Irishness in U.S. Popular Culture, Womens Writing and Film-making
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Research Projects
| Sponsor : Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) Title : Gender, Culture and History: International, National and Local Contexts, 1922-70 Start Date / End Date : 03-MAR-08 / 31-AUG-12 |
| Sponsor : Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) Title : Re-inventing Irish Woman Start Date / End Date : 01-SEP-07 / 31-AUG-10 |
| Sponsor : Arts and Humanities Research Board, UK Title : Women in Modern Irish Culture Bibliographical Database Start Date / End Date : 31-MAR-05 / 30-MAR-07 |
| Sponsor : Higher Education Authority (HEA) Title : Women in Public and Cultural Life in Twentieth Century Ireland Start Date / End Date : 06-OCT-03 / 05-OCT-06 |
| Sponsor : Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) Title : Candidate: Ruth Barton .'Whatever they are... They're not Church of England.' Comic stereotypes in British Cinema: Jennifer Smith Start Date / End Date : 01-OCT-00 / 30-SEP-01 |
Books
Gerardine Meaney; (2010) Gender, Ireland and Cultural Change. New York: Routledge.  [Details] |
| Gerardine Meaney; (2004) Nora. Cork: Cork UP. [Details] |
| Gerardine Meaney; (2011) A Concise History of Irish Literature. Oxford: Routledge. [Details] |
| Meaney, G.; (1993) (Un)Like Subjects: Women, Theory, Fiction. : Routledge. [Details] |
Book Chapters
| Gerardine Meaney; (2007) 'Not Irish Enough? Masculinity and Ethnicity in The Wire and Rescue me' In: Postmodernism and Irish Popular Culture. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details] |
| Gerardine Meaney; (2007) 'Engendering the Postmodern Canon: The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Women's Writing and TRaditions' In: Opening the Field. Cork: Cork UP. [Details] |
| Gerardine Meaney; (2006) 'Dead, White, Male: Irishness in Angel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer' In: The Irish in US. Chicago: Duke University Press. [Details] |
| Gerardine Meaney; (2005) 'Kate O'Brien' In: The UCD Aesthetic. Dublin: New Island Press. [Details] |
| Gerardine Meaney; (2005) 'The Devil's Own Patriot Games: Ireland and the Hollywood Action Thriller ' In: Representing the Troubles. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. [Details] |
| Meaney, G.; (2000) 'History and Womens Time: Heroes and Villains' In: New Casebooks Series, Macmillan, 2000 (eds). Angela Carter: Contemporary Critical Essays, ed. Alison Eastman. [Details] | |||||||||
| Meaney, G.; (2000) 'Film Form, Narrative and Genre' In: Margaret Kelleher (eds). Making It New: essays on the Revised Leaving Certificate Syllabus. *: Lilliput Press. [Details] | |||||||||
| Meaney, G.; (1995) 'History Gasps: Myth in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry' In: Colin Smyth (eds). in Kenneally, M, (ed) Poetry in Contemporary Irish Literature, Studies in Contemporary Irish Literature, vol 2. London: *. [Details] | |||||||||
| Meaney, G.; (1994) 'Sex and Nation: Women in Irish Culture and Politics' In: Smyth, Ailbhe (eds). Women's Studies in Ireland: A Reader. Dublin: Attic. [Details] | |||||||||
| Meaney, G.; (1990) 'Sex and Nation: Women in Irish Culture and Politics Dublin: Attic Press, 1990 (pamphlet)' In: LIP Pamphlets. Dublin: Attic Press. [Details] | |||||||||
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Edited Books
| Bourke, S. Kilfeather, M. Luddy, M. MacCurtain, G. Meaney, M. Ní Dhonnchadha, M.O¿Dowd and C. Will (Ed.). (2002) The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing: Women¿s Writing and Traditions, Vol. V. Cork: Cork UP. [Details] |
| Bourke, S. Kilfeather, M. Luddy, M. MacCurtain, G. Meaney, M. Ní Dhonnchadha, M.O¿Dowd and C. Will (Ed.). (2002) The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing: Women¿s Writing and Traditions, Vol. IV. Cork: Cork UP. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Gerardine Meaney; (2007) 'Race, Sex and Nation'. The Irish Review, . [Details] |
| Gerardine Meaney; (2006) 'The Sons of Cuchulainn: Violence, the Family and Irish Canons'. Eire-Ireland, . [Details] |
| Gerardine Meaney; (2004) 'Regendering Modernism: the Woman Artist in Irish Women's Fiction'. Women, 15 (1):67-92. [Details] |
| Gerardine Meaney; (2004) 'Nora: Biography, Biopics and Adaptation as Interpretation'. Film and Film Culture, 3 :77-87. [Details] |
| Meaney, G.; (2000) 'Penelope, or, myths unravelling: writing, orality and abjection in Ulysses'. Textual Practice, 14 (3):519-529. [Details] |
| Meaney, G.; (1998) 'Landscapes of Desire: Women and Ireland on Film, Women: a cultural review'. Women, 9 (3):238-251. [Details] | |||||||||
| Meaney, G.; (1997) 'Territory and Transgression: History, Nationality and Sexuality in Kate OBriens Fiction''. Irish Journal of Feminist Studies, 2 (2):77-93. [Details] | |||||||||
| Meaney, G.; (1993) 'Myth, history and the politics of subjectivity: Eavan Boland and Irish women's writing'. Women, 4 (2):136-153. [Details] | |||||||||
| Meaney, G.; (1993) 'New Books on Feminism'. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 1 (2):336-344. [Details] | |||||||||
| Meaney, G.; (1991) 'Long Day's Journey into Night: Modernism, Post-Modernism and Maternal Loss'. Irish University Review, 21 (2). [Details] | |||||||||
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Conference Publications
| Gerardine Meaney; (2005) ¿Dark Imaginings and White Anxieties¿ \i Gender, Globalization and Citizenship0 University of Huelva (Spain), , 14-MAY-05 - 16-MAY-05 [Details] |
Conference Contributions
| Gerardine Meaney; (2009) From the Taboo to the Popular: Howard Brenton, The Romans in Britain and Spooks. [Invited Lecture], Irish Studies Symposium: Popular Culture and Revolution Queen Mary University of London, Queen Mary University of London , 20-JUN-09 - 20-JUN-09. |
| Gerardine Meaney, Mary O'Dowd, Bernadette Whelan ; (2009) Inventing and Re-Inventing the Irish Woman: External Influences on Gender Construction 1760-2005. [International Refereed Conference], European Federation of Centres and Associations of Irish Studies Conference, University of Vienna, University of Vienna , 03-SEP-09 - 06-SEP-09. |
| Gerardine Meaney; (2009) Spooks and London: Terror, Ethnicity and Liminality. [International Refereed Conference], Television Cities, Clinton Institute, UCD , 16-OCT-09 - 18-OCT-09. |
| Gerardine Meaney, Mary O'Dowd, Bernadette Whelan ; (2008) Inventing and Reinventing the Irish Woman. [Keynote Address], Image & Reality: Women in 19th and 20th Century Ireland, Queen's University Belfast , 03-APR-08 - 04-APR-08. |
| Gerardine Meaney; (2007) ¿Women in Modern Irish Culture Database¿, workshop. [International Refereed Conference], International Association for the Study of Irish Literature Conference, UCD , 08-JUL-07 - 11-JUL-07. |
| Gerardine Meaney; (2007) From Marconi's Cottage. [International Refereed Conference], European Federation of Centres and Associations of Irish Studies, University of Seville, Seville, Spain , 13-DEC-07 - 15-DEC-07. | |||||||||
| Gerardine Meaney; (2006) The Women in Modern Irish Culture Project. [International Refereed Conference], Geographies and Genders, ACIS Southern Regional, University of South Carolina , 08-MAR-06 - 09-MAR-06. | |||||||||
| Gerardine Meaney; (2006) Orts, Waves and Fragments: New Physics, Narrative Time and Quotation in Between The Acts. [International Refereed Conference], British Society for Literature and Science0 , Inaugural Conference, University of Glasgow , 24-MAR-06 - 26-MAR-06. | |||||||||
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Committees
| Committee : IRCHSS DARIAH Steering Committee |
| Committee : Humanities Serving Irish Soctiery Consortium, Royal Irish Academy |
| Committee : Digital Humanities Observatory Advisory Committee, Royal Irish Academy |
| Committee : Academic Council Committee on Academic Centres |
| Committee : HII Oversight Committee |
| Committee : HII Board of Management | |||||||||
| Committee : College Executive, College of Arts and Celtic Studies | |||||||||
| Committee : Research IT Steering Group | |||||||||
| Committee : Research Committee, College of Arts and Celtic Studies | |||||||||
| Committee : Career Path / Training & Development Workstream, Research Careers Implementation Project | |||||||||
| Committee : Advisory Board, Special Collections | |||||||||
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Education
| Year 1982 Institution: University College Dublin Qualification: BA Subject: |
| Year 1984 Institution: University College Dublin Qualification: MA Subject: |
| Year 1990 Institution: Qualification: PhD Subject: |
Internal Collaborators
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External Collaborators
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Dr Bernadette Whelan Dept. Of History, University of Limerick. Dr Whelan’s research interests include Irish foreign policy, American-Irish diplomacy, Irish women's history, and women and warfare. She is the author of United States foreign policy and Ireland. From empire to independence (Four Courts, 2006) and Ireland and the Marshall Plan, 1947-57 (Four Courts Press: 2000) Further publications also include with Michael Holmes and Nicholas Rees,The poor relation. Irish foreign policy and the third world (Trocaire/Gill and MacMillan: 2000), with ed. M Whelan Women and Paid Work, 2000. Professor Mary O’Dowd, School of History and Anthropology, Queen’s University Belfast. Her research interests have focussed on early modern Ireland and more recently on women and gender in Irish history. She was a founding member of the Women’s History Association of Ireland and served as president of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History, 2000–2005. She has been the History editor of the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, section C since 1993. Research Interests Gender and women’s history; family history; early modern Ireland; historiography Select Publications A history of women in Ireland, 1500–1800 (Harlow, 2005) (Jt-ed.), of special issue of Storia della storiografia/Histoire de l'historiographie, xlvi (2004) on 'Women historians in Europe, 1800–2000' (Jt-ed.), Field Day anthology of Irish writing, vols 4 & 5 (Cork, 2002). Power, politics and land: early modern Sligo, 1568–1680 (Belfast, 1991). (With R.W. Dudley Edwards), Sources for early modern Irish history, 1534–1641 (Cambridge, 1985; paperback ed., 2002).
Professor Maria Luddy, School of History, University of Warwick, author of Prostitution and Irish Society, 1800-1940 (Cambridge, 2007), specialises in the social and political history of 19th and 20th century Ireland, examining in particular the history of women. She has published books and articles on women and philanthropy; 'outcast' women in Irish society; women's involvement in religious communities; the role of nuns in workhouse nursing and biographies of Isabella M. S. Tod and Hanna Sheehy Skeffington.From 1997 to 2001 she was Director of the Women's History Project, which was based in Dublin and funded by the Irish Government. She is especially concerned with the social and political attitudes expressed towards 'deviant' or 'outcast' groups in Irish society, the impact such attitudes had on the material lives of such groups and the significance of such attitudes in developing concepts of Irish national identity, particularly in the period between 1890 and 1930.
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Teaching Interests
| Undergraduate: Gender and Writing Postgraduate: Race, Sex and Nation; Interdisciplinary Literary and Historical Research Methods |
Recent Postgraduates
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Recent thesis topics supervised have included Dervila Layden, Genre, Narrative and Social Change in Contemporary Ireland Valerie Hazette, Film and Television Adaptations of Wuthering Heighs: a cross-cultural study Claire Bracken, Feminism and Postmodernism in Contemporary Irish Culture Emma, Radley,Postmodernism and Film Genre Sarah O'Connor, Women and Cultural Change in Ireland, 1960-2000: a bilingual study Aintzane Legarreta Metxaza, Kate O’Brien and the Basque Country Jenny O'Connor, Deleuze and Postmodern Cinema
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Current Postgraduate Students
| Jennifer Knell, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - Thesis Supervisor |
Modules Taught
| 200800 IRST40010 Irish Studies: Digital Humanities |