Gerardine Meaney

Gerardine Meaney is Professor of Cultural Theory and Director of the UCD Humanities Institute. She is currently also Director of the Graduate Research and Education Programme in Gender, Culture and Identities. Her current research interests are in gender, ethnic and national identities in literature and culture, the cultural dynamics of social change and the application of new digital methodologies to humanities research.

She is the author of Gender, Ireland and Cultural Change (New York: Routledge, 2010), Nora, Ireland into Film Series (Cork: Cork University Press and the Film Institute of Ireland, 2004), (Un)like Subjects: Women, Theory, Fiction (London and New York: Routledge, 1993; reissued Routledge Library Editions, 2012), and of numerous articles on gender and culture, from Joyce to The Wire. She was one of the major co-editors of the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing: Women¿s Writing and Traditions, volumes 4 and 5 (Cork: Cork University Press, 2002). Forthcoming publications include Reading the Irish woman: Cultural Encounter and Exchange, 1714-1960, with Bernadette Whelan and Mary O'Dowd (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013).