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	Full-time faculty on the BA(Hons) in Visual Communication are Dr. Linda King, Sherra Murphy and Dr. Elaine Sisson. Dr. Linda King – Lecturer in Design History/Theory and Material Culture Linda is a graduate of NCAD (BA: History of Art and Design and Visual Communications; MA: History of Design) and DCU (School of Communications) where she completed her PhD, an examination of the graphic and advertising strategies of Aer Lingus. She has previously worked as a graphic designer, an arts consultant (AIB) and as a researcher and assistant curator (Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institute, New York). Her research interests address the intersection of design, material culture and historiography, specifically in relation to the material culture of tourism and aviation; the origins of Irish graphic design practice; design and national identity discourse; the emergence of U.S. industrial design practice; mid-20th century design and the discourse of social responsibility; and the synthesis of design history, theory and practice. She has published and lectured widely on these subjects, is a regular contributor to the Irish visual culture journal Circa and has forthcoming articles in Design Issues (MIT), Journal of Design History (OUP). With Elaine Sisson she is currently co-editing Made in Ireland? Visualising Modernity 1922-1992, a volume on Irish design and material culture, due for publication early next year. Sherra Murphy – Lecturer in Visual Culture and Cultural Studies Sherra Murphy teaches Visual Culture and Cultural Studies across a number of disciplines at IADT. She holds a Certificate in Fine Art from the Art Institute of Boston, a Bachelor of Fine Arts summa cum laude in Painting from the University of New Mexico, and a Master in Fine Arts focusing on Painting and Critical Theory from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is currently pursuing a PhD in the School of History and Archives at University College, Dublin, examining the formation of the Natural History Museum Dublin as an interlocking set of historical, social and visual frameworks. Dr. Elaine Sisson – Academic Co-Ordinator for the School of Creative Arts and Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture Elaine is the Academic Co-Ordinator at the School of Creative Arts, IADT and has extensive experience in curriculum design, quality enhancement and quality assurance procedures in relation to academic planning. She is also a Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture at IADT and has taught Critical Theory and Cultural History across a number of disciplines including Film, Animation, Visual Art Practice, Visual Communications, Production Design & Art Direction. Elaine completed a PhD at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. Her work addresses the importance of the visual in reconsidering textual biases within traditional literary and historiographical analysis. She published a study of the visual and literary construction of masculinity within Irish nationalism titled Pearse’s Patriots: St Enda’s and the Cult of Boyhood (Cork University Press, 2004 repr. 2005). Her research interests are focused around the relationships between pedagogical practices, popular cultural forms (with particular interest in juvenile literature and illustration, theatre design and performance) and visual and material culture. As part of a larger project her active research is currently examining the influence of avant-garde design practices (especially Russian Constructivism) on Irish theatre design and performance in the 1920s. She is in the process of co-editing a collection of essays with Dr Linda King on European and American influences on Irish design and material culture since the founding of the Free State. The collection called Made in Ireland? Visualising Modernity 1922-1992 is due for publication early next year. Elaine is currently on secondment as the IADT research fellow to GradCam (Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media).