Staff Recent Research Publications

Professor Ruth Barton,  Discipline of Film

• Ruth Barton, Denis Murphy, Steven Hadley, Covid-19, cultural policy and the Irish arts sector: continuum or conjuncture?, Irish Studies Review,  Irish Studies Review, 31, 2, 2023, 193 - 210
• Ruth Barton, Memories of Home: The Belfast Films of Mark Cousins and Kenneth Branagh, Journal of British Cinema and Television, 20, 3, 2023, 329 - 344
• Ruth Barton and Denis Murphy, Prominent careers and Irish screen policy, Irish Journal of Arts Management and Cultural Policy, 9, 2022, 4 - 42

Mr Richard Duckworth, Assistant Professor, Discipline of Music

• Conference paper: “Electronic Time: Patching Mid-century Synthesizers with Cybernetics, Simulacra and Temporality in Philip K Dick.” At 2023 Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA) Summer Salon
• In production with Sean Doherty's new album Devil's Dream, set to release on label Divine Arts/Métier later this year. Richard Duckworth is audio producer, also location and mix engineer.

Dr Steven Hadley, Research Fellow, Discipline of Film

• Barton, R., Hadley, S. & Murphy, D. (2023) Covid-19, cultural policy and the Irish arts sector: continuum or conjuncture? Irish Studies Review, 31,2 pp.193-210.
• Hadley, S. (2022) Are we the Baddies? Audience Development, Culture as a Vocation and Democratic Cultural Policy in Reason, M., Conner, L., Johanson, K. and Walmsley, B. (Eds.) Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts, London: Routledge.
• Hadley, S.  and Sophia Woodley (2023) The Future of Cross-Border Cooperation in the Arts, Irish Studies in International Affairs, 34,2.
• S., Heidelberg, B. and Belfiore, E. (2022) Reflexivity and the perpetuation of inequality in the cultural sector: half awake in a fake empire? Journal for Cultural Research DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2022.2111220
• Falconer, K., Hadley, S. and Moorhouse, J. (2022) Building theatre, making policy: materiality and cultural democracy at Liverpool’s PurpleDoor, Studies in Theatre and Performance
• DOI: 1080/14682761.2022.2121027

Dr Jonathan Hodgers, Teaching Fellow, Discipline of Music

• Review of Bob Dylan’s The Philosophy of Modern Song. The Dylan Review 4, no. 2 (2022–23). https://thedylanreview.org/2023/02/01/review-of-the-philosophy-of-modern-song/.

Dr Aaron Hunter, Teaching Fellow, Discipline of Film

• Hunter, Aaron. "Fast, Furious, and Free of Sex: Dom, Brian, and hetero male affection." Full-Throttle Franchise: The Culture, Business and Politics of The Fast & Furious, eds. Joshua Gulam, Fraser Elliot, and Sarah Feinstein. 2023. New York: Bloomsbury.
• Hunter, Aaron. Polly Platt: Hollywood Production Design and Creative Authorship. 2022. London: Palgrave-Macmillan.
• Hunter, Aaron and Martha Shearer, eds. Women and New Hollywood: Gender, Creative Labor, and 1970s American Cinema. 2023. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

Dr Jennifer O’Meara, Associate Professor, Discipline of Film

• Jennifer O'Meara, Women's Voices in Digital Media: The Sonic Screen from Film to Memes, Austin, Texas, University of Texas Press, 2022, 320pp. Book, 2022. https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477324448/womens-voices-in-digital-media/  
• Jennifer O'Meara and Kata Szita, AR cinema: Visual storytelling and embodied experiences with augmented reality filters and backgrounds, PRESENCE: Virtual and Augmented Reality, MIT Press, 2023, Journal Article, 2023, 1-25. URL
• Jennifer O’Meara, “Tilda Swinton: From Avant-Garde Androgyne to The Avengers” in, editor(s) Steven Rybin , Stellar Transformations: Movie Stars of the 2010s, Rutgers University Press, 2022, pp108-124 , Book Chapter, 2022, URL

Dr Paula Quigley, Assistant Professor, Discipline of Film

• Paula Quigley, "'Sheer Epidermis': 'Face Politics' and the Films of Lynne Ramsay," in Faces on Screen: New Approaches, ed. Alice Maurice (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2022), 138 - 149.
• Paula Quigley, Editorial Board, Short Film Studies (Intellect), 2022- .

Dr Sarah Jane Scaife, Assistant Professor, Discipline of Drama

• Scaife, Sarah Jane. ‘Beckett sa Chreig: A Bilingual Project Setting Beckett’s Text Happy Days within the Language, Landscape and People of Inis Oírr’ , in Samuel Beckett Today/ Aujourd’hui 35 (2023) 1-10

Dr Melissa Sihra, Associate Professor, Discipline of Drama

• Melissa Sihra is Co-Series Editor of the new Cambridge University Press 'Women Theatre Makers' Elements Monograph series with Professor Elaine Aston.

Professor Brian Singleton, Samuel Beckett Chair of Drama & Theatre, Discipline of Drama

• Brian Singleton, 'Riotous Assembly: Performing Gender and Social Justice in thisispopbaby's RIOT', in J. Paul Halferty & Cathy Leeney (eds.), Analysing Gender in Performance. London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 241-257.  https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-85574-1

Dr Miranda Thomas, Assistant Professor, Discipline of Drama

• 'The Stranger's Case: Exile in (and out of) Shakespeare', in) Yana Meerzon and S. E. Wilmer (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Migration, Palgrave, 2023