Elaine Sisson
Specializes in 19c + 20c Irish cultural history Published Pearse's Patriots: St Enda's + the Cult of Boyhood (CUP, 2005) + with L. King, Ireland Design + Visual Culture: Negotiating Modernity 1922-1992 (CUP, 2011). She co-established the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media. New research is on bohemianism, experiment and the Irish Free State
Publications
I have published in the area of Irish visual and material culture, Irish social history, theatre studies, modernism and cultural history, Irish cultural nationalism (Pearse, Synge)
| Year | |
|---|---|
| “Visual Shrapnel” (with Linda King) Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. Concordia University, Montreal | 2015 |
| “Dublin Civic Week 1929 and the Materialisation of History” Object Matters: The Visual and Material Culture of 1916 (Eds) Lisa Godson and Joanna Bruck, Liverpool University Press | 2015 |
| ‘Research Visibility and the “Emergent” Practices of Creative Media.”Restating the Value of the Humanities (editors Jane Conroy and Margaret Kelleher). Published under the auspices of the Humanities Serving Irish Society Consortium, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin | 2014 |
| Editor, with Linda King. Ireland, Design and Visual Culture: Negotiating Modernity 1922-1992, Cork University Press | 2011 |
| “Materiality, Modernity and the Shaping of Identity (with Linda King) in Ireland, Design and Visual Culture. Cork University Press | 2011 |
Research projects
Conferencing, writing, broadcasting in the area of Irish cultural studies
Lectures/Conferences
Conferencing and presenting nationally (NUIG, TCD, St Patrick's, UL, QUB) and internationally (University of Aalborg; Concordia University Montreal; Queen Mary, London; University of Newcastle; Boston College on Irish cultural history.
| Year | |
|---|---|
| Pearse and 1916. Conference A Terrible Beauty is Born: The Easter Rising and 1916. Boston College, | 2016 |
| Moore Institute Fellowship Lecture: Research and the Theatre Historian, NUI Galway. | 2016 |
| Experiment and the Free State: Toto Cogley’s Cabaret and the founding of the Gate Theatre. Conference on the Gate Theatre. | 2015 |
| “Reassembling Social Networks of the 1920s” Irish Modernist Women Symposium, UCD. | 2015 |
| “Scenography and the Theatre Historian.” Symposium on Performing Space, Trinity College Long Room Hub | 2014 |
| “Irish Costume Design and The Gate Theatre’s 1928 production of Wilde’s Salomé.” Panel on Visual and Material Culture. American Conference for Irish Studies/Canadian Conference for Irish Studies, University College, Dublin | 2014 |
Awards + Achievements
| Year | |
|---|---|
| Awarded a Moore Institute Fellowship at NUI Galway, January | 2016 |
| Member of the International Editorial Board, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies | 2016 |