I am a researcher of largely contemporary film and visual culture with particular interests in how mediatized conflicts are represented - and re-presented - in cinema and the visual arts. My PhD, which I completed in the School of Creative Arts at Queen's University Belfast, concerns visual culture linked with social change in contemporary post-Good Friday Agreement Northern Ireland. My continuing research identifies the ways that artists and filmmakers deal with the psychic legacies of the region's troubled past, while considering how converging new media reflect the uneasy collapses between societal divisions.

Previous teaching posts:

Teaching Fellow in Film, Newcastle University (2014-15)

Lecturer in Film Studies, Queen's University Belfast (2013-14)

Teaching Fellow in Film & Visual Culture, University of Aberdeen (2013)

Teaching Assistant in Film Studies, Queen's University Belfast (2008-12)

PhD Film & Visual Studies, Queen's University Belfast (2008-11)

MA Film & Visual Studies, Queen's University Belfast (2006-08)

BA (Hons) English and Film Studies, Queen's University Belfast (2003-06)

Old Borders, New Technologies: Visual Culture and Social Change in Contemporary Northern Ireland