Biography
Professor Paula Quigley is Head of Film at the School of Creative Arts. She has published on a wide range of topics in film studies, including the work of Sergei Eisenstein and André Bazin, the impact of psychoanalysis on film theory, and studies of the short film. In addition, she has published on issues of genre and gender, with a focus on iterations of the 'woman's film' in diverse cinematic and cultural contexts. Recent research includes an examination of 'face politics' in the films of Lynne Ramsay and an exploration of maternal gothic/horror cinema. Current research projects include analyses of the work of prominent women filmmakers Ava DuVernay, Emerald Fennell, Greta Gerwig, and Chloé Zhao.
Professor Quigley welcomes enquiries from research students interested in working on aspects of film theory, film style, film performance, genre, gender, women and film, feminism and postfeminism, melodrama, female gothic, and various aspects of Hollywood cinema and European cinema.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
'I can't leave her': Maternal Gothic/Horror in Hereditary (Ari Aster, 2018), Relic (Natalie Erika James, 2020), and You Are Not My Mother (Kate Dolan, 2021) in, editor(s)Deirdre Flynn & Susan Liddy , The Routledge Companion to Motherhood on Screen, London, Routledge, 2025, pp67 - 78, [Paula Quigley]
Paula Quigley, Writing With Light: Reflections on Sarah Strong's 'I Hear Fish Drowning' (2014), Strong: A Hybrid Symposium, Boston College Ireland, 24 November 2023, 2023
'Sheer Epidermis': 'Face Politics' and the Films of Lynne Ramsay in, editor(s)Alice Maurice , Faces on Screen: New Approaches, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2022, pp138 - 149, [Paula Quigley]
Paula Quigley, Mapping her-self: Ma and Da, Small Deaths, Gasman [Lynne Ramsay] and the 'mobile home', Short Film Studies, 11, (2), 2021, p167 - 175
Paula Quigley, The art of keeping time, Short Film Studies, 10, (2), 2020, p203 - 206
The Babadook, maternal gothic, and the 'woman's horror film' in, editor(s)Tamar Jeffers McDonald and Frances A. Kamm , Gothic Heroines on Screen: Representation, Interpretation and Feminist Inquiry, Britain, Routledge, 2019, pp222 - 242, [Paula Quigley]
Paula Quigley, When Good Mothers Go Bad: Genre and Gender in The Babadook, Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, 15, 2016, p57 - 75
Paula Quigley, 'Thinking through the body: the corporeal turn in film theory', Glitch New Media Festival 2016, Rua Red, South Dublin Arts Centre, 4th June, 2016, Glitch New Media Festival
Paula Quigley, The Babadook, Maternal Gothic and the 'woman's horror film', Gothic Feminism: The Representation of the Gothic Heroine in Cinema, University of Kent, 26-27 May 2016, edited by Tamar Jeffers McDonald and Frances Kamm , 2016, pp1-10
Paula Quigley, What Children See: Dorthe Scheffmann's The Beach (1995), Short Film Studies, 7, (1), 2016, p55 - 58
Paula Quigley, The Perfect Human and 'modern cinema', Short Film Studies, 5, (2), 2015, p157 - 160
Paula Quigley, Women in Horror, Feminist Film Festival, New Theatre, Dublin 2, 31 October, 2015, Feminist Film Festival
Paula Quigley, 'Robbed of One's Eyes': Re-Viewing the Holocaust, Short Film Studies, 4, (2), 2014, p211 - 214
Paula Quigley, Realism and Eroticism: Re-Reading Bazin, Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory, 36, (1), 2013, p31 - 49
Paula Quigley, Matka: Muteness, Metaphor, Metonymy, Short Film Studies, 4, (1), 2013, p31 - 34
Paula Quigley, The Spectacle of Suffering: The 'Woman's Film' and Lars von Trier, Studies in European Cinema, 9, (2-3), 2012, p155 - 168
Paula Quigley, Slow/Motion: Time and Space in Natan, Short Film Studies, 3, (1), 2012, p49-52
Paula Quigley, The Man Giving Orders: The Girl Chewing Gum, Short Film Studies, 2, (2), 2012, p151 - 154
Paula Quigley, Straight lines and circles, Short Film Studies, 1, (2), 2011, p307 - 310
Paula Quigley, Undoing the Image: Film Theory and Psychoanalysis, Film-Philosophy, 15, (1), 2011, p13 - 32
Paula Quigley, Review of Nora: Ireland into Film, by Gerardine Meaney, Irish Studies Review, 14, (1), 2005, p156 - 158
General Introduction in, editor(s)Jean Dunne & Paula Quigley , The Montage Principle: Eisenstein in New Critical and Cultural Contexts, Amsterdam, Brill, 2004, pp15 - 24, [Jean Antoine Dunne and Paula Quigley]
Jean Dunne & Paula Quigley (eds), The Montage Principle: Eisenstein in New Critical and Cultural Contexts, 1, Amsterdam, Brill, 2004
Eisenstein, Montage and 'filmic writing' in, editor(s)Jean Dunne & Paula Quigley , The Montage Principle: Eisenstein in New Critical and Cultural Contexts, Amsterdam, Brill, 2004, pp153 - 170, [Paula Quigley]
Paula Quigley, Film Study in the Undergraduate Curriculum: Film Studies at Trinity College Dublin, Film and Film Culture, 2, 2003, p88 - 90
Paula Quigley, Film Studies: New Directions, University College Dublin, 2000, 2000
Paula Quigley, Film and figure: theory revisited, Screen Studies Conference, University of Glasgow, 1999, 1999
Paula Quigley, Eisenstein and Hieroglyphic Editing, Eisenstein Centenary Conference, University College Dublin, 1998, 1998
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Paula Quigley, Women and Horror, London, Trinity College Dublin, 2019