Staff Directory
Sisson, Dr Elaine
Department:
School of Creative Arts
School / Functional Area:
School of Creative Arts
Job Title:
IADT Research Fellow at the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media
Contact Telephone Number:
+353 1 2394600
Email Address:
elaine (dot) sisson (at) iadt (dot) ie
Academic Qualifications:
PhD MA BA
Area of Expertise:
Cultural History, visual and material culture
Currently Teaching:
Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media
Research Interests/Activities:
Late nineteenth century and early twentieth century Irish cultural history; Early C20th Irish theatre and experimental theatre design.
Publications:
Selected Publications
Books:
E,.Sisson & L.King (Eds.) Made in Ireland: Visualising Modernity.
(forthcoming 2009)
E. Sisson, Pearse’s Patriots: St Enda’s and the Cult of Boyhood. Cork University Press,
Articles:
E. Sisson “ Landscapes of the imagination:
The Aran Islands and the Travel Essays Cambridge Companion to J.M. Synge (Ed.) P.J. Mathews. (Cambridge U.P, 2009)
E.Sisson. “Masculinity and Citizenship: Boyhood and Nationhood at St. Enda’s”. The Life and After-Life of P.H. Pearse (Eds. R Higgins and R Ui Chollatain) (Irish Academic Press, 2009)
E Sisson. “The Legacy of Cúchulainn” Scholarcast,(Ed PJ Mathews) UCD, February 2008
E. Sisson (Ed.) History Criticism Technology. IADT Supplement to CIRCA Art Magazine. Winter 2001
E.Sisson. “Practising Theory”. CIRCA Art Magazine, Winter No 89, 1999
E. Sisson.“Making a Spectacle” in The Performance Papers (Ed. Fiach MacConghail), Dublin, 19998
Conference Papers
“The Dreaming Dust: Denis Johnston on Jonathan Swift” Sixth Annual Swift Symposium, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, October 2007
“Expressionism and Irish Stage Design: 1922-1932.” Irish Modernism. Trinity College, Dublin. October, 2007
“Theatre, Design and the Avant Garde in Ireland.” Seeing Things: Irish Visual Culture. University of Limerick, June 2007
“Look Behind You: Stage Design and Irish Experimental Theatre 1918-1929” Irish Society for Theatre Research, Queen’s University, Belfast, April 2007
“The Boy as National Symbol” The Life and After-Life of P.H. Pearse, UCD, April 2006
“Celtic Imperialisms” Defining Colonies, NUI Galway, 1999
“Nationalist Utopias”, British Association of Cultural Geographers,
University of Newcastle, 1995
Guest Lectures/Public Lectures:
UCD, TCD, NCAD, DIT, Hugh Lane Gallery, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin Theatre Festival, Ranelagh Arts Festival, Parnell Summer School
Professional:
Peer Reviewer: Irish Journal of Feminist Studies Cork University Press, (2004-2006); Journal of Boyhood (2007); Éire-Ireland (2007)
Co-Organiser, Conference on Design History On the Edge: Design in/of Ireland. IADT/Design History Society, (October 2003)
External Examiner, BA Fine Art, Dip Fine Art Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork, (1999-2002)
Adjudicator, Government of Ireland Scholarship Fund, Film & Communications Panel (2001)
Board of Examiners, MA Women’s Studies Programme, Trinity College, Dublin, (1997-2000)
Co-Founder, Irish Cultural Studies Research Network, IADT, (2000)
Member of Government of Ireland Cultural Delegation, Encounters Think-Tank on Cultural Identity, Edinburgh University, (1999)
Awards
Secured Strand I funding for MA Researcher (IADT @GradCAM, 2008)
School of Irish Studies Foundation Award towards publication of book Pearse’s Patriots, 2000
Post-graduate Bursuary, Dublin Corporation, 1996
Patrick Kavanagh Fund, Trinity College Dublin, 1995
Patrick Kavanagh Fund, Trinity College, Dublin, 1994
Bursary and Assistantship, School of English, College of William & Mary in Virginia, USA 1989-90
Trinity Trust Travel Award, Trinity College, Dublin, 1998
