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| Originally from Los Angeles, Dr Mark-FitzGerald holds a BA in Art History and Spanish from the University of Southern California, an MA in Arts Administration from Indiana University and a PhD from University College Dublin. Since 2003 she has taught in UCD's School of Art History and Cultural Policy, where she was appointed Lecturer in 2008. She has worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, African American Arts Institute of Indiana University, Art for Amnesty International, Lismore Castle Arts and Zero-G. She is the recipient of major fellowships from the US-Ireland Alliance (Mitchell Scholarship), Mellon Foundation/Social Science Research Council, Humanities Institute of Ireland, Royal Hibernian Academy and Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation. Dr Mark-FitzGerald speaks regularly and publishes on the subject of public art, memory and commemoration, museology and the visual culture of migration, and contemporary Irish and international art. Active also in the Irish arts and cultural sphere, she currently sits on the executive boards of the Irish Museums Association and Irish Theatre Magazine. Since 2002 she has lived and worked in Dublin. Dr Mark-FitzGerald is currently on maternity leave until January 2013. |
| Dr Mark-FitzGerald's research interests connect with four related fields: (1) public art, commemorative and monumental practice and theory Her doctoral research investigated how issues of place, form and memory were negotiated through the contemporary sculptural commemoration of the Irish Famine, in local, national and global contexts. From 2003-7 she completed the first large-scale documentation and critique of commemorative responses to the Famine, surveying over eighty post-1990 monuments built in Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, Canada, Australia and the U.S. An academic monograph based on this research (Commemorating the Famine: Memory and the Monument) is forthcoming in 2013 with Liverpool University Press. Along with colleagues from UCD and IADT Dr Mark-FitzGerald is currently developing a new online journal, The Irish Journal of Arts and Cultural Management (first issue expected early 2013), which will publish peer-reviewed academic research concerning the cultural management and policy sector in Ireland. Other research in progress examines the recent evolution of new 'sites of memory' of immigrant heritage, such as the Musée de la Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration (France, 2007); Immigration Museum of Victoria (Melbourne, 1998); Grosse Île in Quebéc (Canada, 1997); the Lower East Side Tenement Museum (New York, 1988); and the redevelopment of Ellis Island (New York, ongoing). Adopting a transnational perspective, this project examines the motivation to circumscribe and interpret the complex and diffuse social experience of immigration in visual forms. Supported by grants from the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation, Royal Irish Academy, Government of Canada (International Council for Canadian Studies) and UCD's Horizon Scanning funding, this study further investigates the political agency underlining these museums' formation, focusing on the integration of arts/cultural and multicultural policy within the space of the museum, and the role of the public institution in foregrounding identity construction and the preservation/presentation of the experience, memory and legacy of migration. |
| Mark-FitzGerald, Emily (2007) Collaborations and Conversations: Stoney Road Press 2002-2007. Dublin: Stoney Road Press. [Details] |
| Mark-FitzGerald, Emily (2013) 'The 'Irish Holocaust': Historical Trauma and the Commemoration of the Famine' In: Pollock, Griselda (eds). The Visual Politics of Psychoanalysis in a Post-traumatic World. London: IB Tauris. [Details] |
| Mark-FitzGerald, Emily (2012) 'The Irish Famine and Commemorative Culture' In: Lindsay Janssen, Vincent Comerford and Christian Noack (eds). Holodomor and Gorta Mór: Histories, Memories and Representations of Famine in Ukraine and Ireland. London: Anthem Press. [Details] |
| Mark-FitzGerald, Emily (2010) 'Towards a Famine Art History: Invention, Reception, and Repetition from the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth' In: Ireland's Great Hunger, Vol. 2: Relief, Representation, and Remembrance. Quinnipiac: Quinnipiac University Press. [Details] |
| Mark-FitzGerald, Emily (2009) 'Performing Famine Memory' In: F.M. Walsh and S. Brady (eds). Performance Studies and Irish Culture. Dublin: Palmgrave MacMillan. [Details] |
| Mark, Emily (2005) 'Pathos and Paddywhackery: Erskine Nicol and the Painting of the Irish Famine' In: Beyond the Anchoring Grounds: More Cross-currents in Irish and Scottish Studies (Belfast Studies in Language, Culture and Politics). Belfast: University of Aberdeen/Queenâs University Belfast. [Details] |
| Mark-FitzGerald, Emily (Assistant Editor) (Ed.). (2006) SubUrban to SuperRural: Ireland at the Venice Biennale 2006. Dublin: Irish Architecture Foundation. [Details] |
| Mark, Emily (Assistant Editor) (Ed.). (2004) In the time of shaking: Irish Artists for Amnesty International. Dublin: Art for Amnesty. [Details] |
| Mark-FitzGerald, Emily (2011) 'Review: Dublin Contemporary 2011' Museum Ireland 21 . [Details] |
| Mark-FitzGerald, Emily (2011) 'Parity of form: Matisse at the Chester Beatty Library' Irish Arts Review 28 (2) :90-93. [Details] |
| Mark-FitzGerald, Emily (2008) 'Review: Patrick Dougherty at Sculpture in the Parklands' Circa . [Details] |
| Mark-FitzGerald, Emily (2008) 'Horizons of Light: William McKeown' Irish Arts Review . [Details] |
| Mark-FitzGerald, Emily (Editor) (2007) ' ' Artefact: Journal of the Irish Association of Art Historians . [Details] |
| Mark, Emily (2005) 'Review: Conquering England: Ireland in Victorian London at the National Portrait Gallery' Circa Autumn . [Details] | |||||||||
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| Mark-FitzGerald, Emily (2014) Biographical entries on Irish artists John Behan, Eamonn O¿Doherty, Rowan Gillespie, and subject entry on Irish Famine sculpture, in the Royal Irish Academy¿s Dictionary of Irish Artists & Architects. Dublin: Dictionary Entry [Details] |
| Mark-FitzGerald, Emily (2011) Monthly columnist for Visual Artists News Sheet (Visual Artists Ireland). Newspaper Articles [Details] |
| Mark-FitzGerald, Emily (2008) 'Abstraction and the Holocaust' by Mark Godfrey. Book Reviews [Details] |
| Year: 2012. Title: Faculty Research Award, International Council for Canadian Studies |
| Year: 2012. Title: Faculty Mobility Grant, Royal Irish Academy |
| Year: 2011. Title: Woodrow Wilson Nat. Fellowship Foundation - Career Enhancement Fellowship (June 2011-June 2012) |
| Year: 2010. Title: Visiting Adjunct Assistant Professor, NYU Irish Studies / Glucksman Ireland House |
| Year: 2007. Title: UCD Travel Grant |
| Year: 2005. Title: UCD Travel Grant |
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| Year: 2005. Title: Woodrow Wilson Nat. Fellowship Foundation - Research Grant |
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| Year: 2004. Title: Thomas Dammann Award, Royal Hibernian Academy |
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| Year: 2003. Title: Humanities Institute of Ireland Fellow |
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| Year: 2003. Title: Mellon-Mays Research Grant |
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| Year: 2002. Title: George J. Mitchell Scholar |
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| Year: 2001. Title: Indiana University Foundation Fellow |
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| Year: 1999. Title: Phi Beta Kappa Valedictorian |
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| Year: 1999. Title: Indiana University Recruitment Fellow |
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| Year: 1999. Title: Hubbard Latino Award |
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| Year: 1998. Title: Phi Beta Kappa, Elected Member |
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| Year: 1998. Title: Phi Kappa Phi, Elected Member |
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| Year: 1998. Title: Dean Joan Schaefer Scholar |
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| Year: 1997. Title: Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow |
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| Year: 1995. Title: University Trustee Scholar |
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| Association: Irish Theatre Magazine, Function/Role: Board of Directors |
| Association: Irish Museums Association, Function/Role: Board of Directors |
| Association: College Art Association (USA), Function/Role: Member |
| Association: Association of Art Historians (UK), Function/Role: Member |
| Association: Artefact: the Journal of the Irish Association of Art Historians, Function/Role: Editorial Committee |
| Association: Irish Association of Art Historians, Function/Role: Member | |||||||||
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| Mark-FitzGerald, Emily (2011) Commemorating Irish Migration: Memory and the Museum. [Oral Presentation], Memory: Silence, Screen, Spectacle, New School for Social Research, New York , 24-MAR-11 - 24-MAR-11. |
| Mark-FitzGerald, Emily (2011) A Genuine History of the Masses¿? Embodying the Irish Immigrant at the Museum. [Oral Presentation], History of Migration in Museums: between Memory and Politics, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France , 17-NOV-11 - 17-NOV-11. |
| Mark-FitzGerald, Emily (2011) Past, Partial, Present: A Response. [Invited Oral Presentation], Posing as a Subject Amongst Subjects by Michelle Deignan, Maria Stenford Gallery, London , 13-OCT-11 - 13-OCT-11. |
| Mark-FitzGerald, Emily (2012) Commemorating the Irish Famine: Memory and the Monument. [Invited Lecture], Global Irish Studies Talks, John Hume Institute for Global irish Studies, Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia , 05-APR-12 - 05-APR-12. |
| Mark-FitzGerald, Emily (2012) Memory, Migration and the Monument: Commemorating the Irish Famine in Ireland and the Diaspora. [Invited Lecture], Art History / Irish Studies Public Lecture, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia , 18-APR-12 - 18-APR-12. |
| Mark-FitzGerald, Emily (2012) Monuments, museums, and the memory of migration in Canada. [Oral Presentation], Famine Memory, Migration, and the Irish Diaspora, University of Limerick , 22-MAR-12 - 22-MAY-12. | |||||||||
| Mark-FitzGerald, Emily (2012) Panellist: Will the Future Thank Our Present?. [Invited Oral Presentation], Visual Arts Workers' Forum, Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork , 17-MAY-12 - 17-MAY-12. | |||||||||
| Mark-FitzGerald, Emily (2012) Remembering the Irish Famine: Commemorating the Famine Graveyard and Workhouse, 1990-2011. [Oral Presentation], College Arts Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles , 22-FEB-12 - 22-FEB-12. | |||||||||
| Mark-FitzGerald, Emily; (2010) Invited Panel Presentation. [Oral Presentation], The Relevance of Public Art, Dublin City Gallery - The Hugh Lane , 11-MAR-10 - 11-MAR-10. | |||||||||
| Mark-FitzGerald, Emily; (2009) Famine Monuments and Commemorative Culture. [Oral Presentation], Holodomor in Ukraine and Great Famine in Ireland: Histories, Representations and Memories, NUI Maynooth , 06-NOV-09 - 09-NOV-09. | |||||||||
| Mark-FitzGerald, Emily; (2008) Chaired session on 'Trash and the Archive'. [Chaired Session], The Aesthetics of Trash: Objects and Obsolescence in Cultural Perspective, University College Dublin , 04-SEP-08 - 06-SEP-08. | |||||||||
| Mark-FitzGerald, Emily; (2008) Chaired session on 'The New Normal'. [Chaired Session], New Media, New Audience? - The Arts Council, Dublin , 06-NOV-08 - 06-NOV-08. | |||||||||
| Mark FitzGerald, Emily; (2008) Performing Famine: the politics of community remembrance in Ireland and the diaspora. [Oral Presentation], UK Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, Tate Britain, London , 01-JAN-08 - 01-JAN-08. | |||||||||
| Mark FitzGerald, Emily; (2007) The Irish Holocaust: Historical Trauma and the Commemoration of the Famine. [Oral Presentation], UK Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, University of Ulster (Belfast) , 01-JAN-07 - 01-JAN-07. | |||||||||
| Mark FitzGerald; (2005) Engraved into Memory: The Irish Famine & The Illustrated London News. [Oral Presentation], Yale/Konstanz/UCD Postgraduate Workshop: History, Memory, Identity, University of Konstanz (Germany) , 01-JAN-05 - 01-JAN-05. | |||||||||
| Mark FitzGerald, Emily; (2005) A life-affirming monument to our famine dead: Irish public memory and monumentality. [Oral Presentation], Sculptors’ Society of Ireland: Confraternity or Confrontation: Monumental sculpture: Ireland and the UK, Newman House, Dublin , 01-JAN-05 - 01-JAN-05. | |||||||||
| Mark FitzGerald, Emily; (2005) Towards a Famine Art History: Invention, Reception, and Repetition from the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth. [Oral Presentation], Ireland's Great Hunger: Representation and Preservation Conference, Quinnipiac University, Connecticut , 01-JAN-05 - 01-JAN-05. | |||||||||
| Mark FitzGerald, Emily; (2005) Pathos and Paddywhackery: Erskine Nicol and the Painting of the Irish Famine. [Oral Presentation], Crosscurrents in Irish Studies, University of Aberdeen , 01-JAN-05 - 01-JAN-05. | |||||||||
| Mark FitzGerald, Emily; (2004) Commemorating the Famine: Passage, Performance, Politics. [Oral Presentation], Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages: Space, Text, Time0 Conference, University of Ulster , 01-JAN-04 - 01-JAN-04. | |||||||||
| Mark FitzGerald, Emily; (2003) Memorials and Monuments to the Irish Famine: Commemorative Art and History. [Oral Presentation], American Conference of Irish Studies, University of Maryland , 01-APR-03 - 01-APR-03. | |||||||||
| Mark FitzGerald, Emily; (1999) There are no Asians in the Asian Art Museum: A Status Check of Multicultural/lingual Museum Initiatives. [Oral Presentation], Mellon Minority Fellowship Annual Conference, Rice University, Texas , 01-JUL-99 - 01-JUL-99. | |||||||||
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| Committee : Irish Theatre Magazine - Executive Board Member |
| Committee : Board of the Irish Museums Association |
| Employer: Zero-G Position: Consultant (design studio) |
| Employer: Lismore Castle Arts, Co. Waterford Position: Curatorial Assistant/Project Coordinator |
| Employer: Art for Amnesty Position: Project Manager, 'In the time of shaking' |
| Employer: African American Arts Institute of Indiana University Position: Assistant to the Director |
| Employer: Getty Museum Position: Graduate Intern, Exhibitions |
| Employer: African American Arts Institute of Indiana University Position: Road Manager, Choral Ensemble |
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| Employer: Indiana University Foundation (Indiana University) Position: Teaching Assistant, Development & Fundraising |
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| Employer: University College Dublin Position: Senior Tutor, History of Art |
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| Employer: University College Dublin Position: Occasional Lecturer, Cultural Policy & Arts Management |
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| Employer: University College Dublin Position: Assistant Lecturer, School of Art History & Cultural Policy |
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| Year 1999 Institution: University of Southern California Qualification: BA (Hons.) Subject: Art History major, Spanish minor |
| Year 2002 Institution: Indiana University Qualification: MA (With Distinction) Subject: Arts Administration |
| Year 2008 Institution: University College Dublin Qualification: PhD Subject: Art History |
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| Client: Various arts & non-profit organisations |
| Dr Mark-FitzGerald is currently engaged in teaching modern and contemporary art history, memory theory and public commemoration, Irish cultural policy, advanced research methods in art history and arts management, and development/fundraising. |
