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Dr James Loughlin James Loughlin is a Reader in the School of History and International Affairs. Before joining the University of Ulster, in 1988, he held the posts of Junior Research Fellow and then Senior Research Fellow (funded by the ESRC) at the Institute of Irish Studies. Qualifications BA(Hons) History and Politics, Ulster College, Northern Ireland Polytechnic PhD, Trinity College Dublin Research Interests Home Rule Ulster Unionist Identity British monarchy and Ireland State formation in Northern Ireland Dr Anthony McCann Born in Magherafelt Co. Derry, and raised in Warrenpoint, Co. Down, Anthony McCann works as Lecturer in Contemporary Folk Culture at the Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages of the University of Ulster. He has previously held positions at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and the University of Limerick. In 1999 he acted as assistant coordinator of a UNESCO/Smithsonian World Conference in Washington DC entitled “A Global Assessment of the 1989 UNESCO Recommendation on the Safeguarding of Traditional Culture and Folklore: Local Empowerment and International Cooperation”. Anthony undertook postdoctoral research at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC from 2001-2002. Qualifications Anthony is a graduate of Queen’s University Belfast (B.A. Joint Honours, Celtic Studies and Spanish), University College Galway (M.Phil, Irish Studies), and the University of Limerick (Ph.D., Ethnomusicology). His Ph.D. research, completed in 2002, focused on the expansionary character of the operations of the Irish Music Rights Organisation, a performing rights collection agency, from 1995-2000. Research Fields Personal and Political Dynamics of Enclosure The Politics of Gentleness Critical Legal Studies/Anthropology of Law: Music, copyright, and intellectual property Cultural Policy and Heritage Studies Craft and Crafting in the Folk and Healing Arts Dr James McConnel James McConnel was appointed Lecturer in History at the University of Ulster in January 2006. Previously he worked as a research assistant for the University of Hertfordshire and University of Wales, Bangor on an ESRCfunded project on Welsh devolution. He first came to the University of Ulster in 2005 as a research associate at the Institute of Ulster Scots Studies. He was a visiting professor at the University of Indiana South Bend during autumn 2006. Qualifications He read history at the University of Sheffield (1996), before studying for an MA (1998) and a PhD (2002) at the University of Durham. His doctoral research examined nationalist politics in Ireland before the Great War. Research Fields His main research interest is the Irish home rule movement between 1870 and 1922, though he has recently developed an interest in unionism through a study of Ulster protestant commemoration of November 5. He is currently researching a biography of the Irish nationalist leader John Redmond. 12
Dr Jane McKee Jane McKee grew up in North Antrim and studied at Trinity College Dublin before being appointed in 1973 to the staff of St Patrick’s College, Maynooth where she taught until December 1985. In January 1986 she joined the staff of the University of Ulster (Magee campus) where she is today a Senior Lecturer in French. She has served on the University Council and is currently a member of the University Senate. Qualifications She read French and Spanish at Tinity College Dublin and graduated in 1969. Her Ph.D. (‘The Humanism of Romain Gary’), was also completed at Trinity College Research Current research is focused on the correspondences of the seventeenth century clergyman Charles Drelincourt and on his sons and she has also published papers on Charles Drelincourt and two of his sons, Laurent, the last of the Huguenot poets and Pierre who became Dean of Armagh in 1691. She has also published on French Huguenot and Enlightenment holdings in Irish church libraries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Before 1991 her research and publication was mostly in the area of Computer-assisted language learning She has also run a number of research projects and published articles on aspects of teaching, including distance learning, the integration of key skills into the languages curriculum and tandem learning. She was a member of the Ulster team involved in the FDTL-funded SMILE project (Strategies for Managing Independent Learning Environments). Dr Willa Murphy Willa Murphy was born and grew up North of Boston, Massachusetts, and studied English at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. She obtained an MA in theology and a PhD in English from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. Before her appointment to the University of Ulster, she was a Research Fellow in Women’s Studies at the University of Limerick, and had also taught English and theology at NUI-Maynooth and at St Patrick’s College, Dublin City University. She is currently Lecturer in Irish Writing in English in the Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages, University of Ulster. Her main field of research is nineteenth-century Irish writing in English, with particular attention to women’s writing. She is also interested in the intersection of literature and religious language, and is currently researching connections between evangelicalism and women’s writing in nineteenth-century Ireland. Her teaching includes these topics, but also extends to contemporary women’s writing, colonial and nineteenth-century American literature, and feminist and post-colonial theory. Qualifications PhD, University of Notre Dame, 2001; MA, English, University of Notre Dame, 1994); MA, Systematic Theology, Notre Dame, 1990; BA (Honors), English, Brigham Young University, 1989 Research Interests Nineteenth Century Irish and English writing Nineteenth Century American writing Critical Theory (particularly feminism and post-colonialism) Religion and Literature Twentieth Century Irish Women’s Writing Prof Máiréad Nic Craith Professor Máiréad Nic Craith is Director of the Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages at the University of Ulster (Northern Ireland). She has previously held an Irish-Government sponsored post at the University of Liverpool and tutored at University College Cork. She also held a visiting fellowship at the Department of Politics in University College Dublin. Máiréad’s research draws on the social sciences and is interdisciplinary. She is author 13
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