Dr Ciara L. Murphy

NUI Galway, WP2

Dr Ciara L. Murphy was a Postdoctoral Researcher on the CLS INFRA and ELEXIS research projects, moving on to a lectureship with Dundalk IT in October 2022. Ciara was previously Lecturer in Creative Arts Teaching and Learning in the School of English and Creative Arts at NUI Galway. Her forthcoming monograph Performing Social Change on the Island of Ireland: From Republic to Pandemic will be published by Routledge in 2022. She is currently co-editing a collection Austerity and Irish Women’s Writing and Culture, 1980-2020 (Routledge 2022). Ciara was a researcher on the collaborative research project for #WakingtheFeminists, ‘Gender Counts: An Analysis of gender in Irish theatre 2006-2015’, that examines how key roles in Irish theatre have been gendered over the last ten years.