A broadly trained Classicist, Leah O’Hearn has been at Maynooth since 2023, having previously taught at La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia). Her main teaching and research interests centre on ancient Latin poetry, particularly on themes of moral psychology, gender and sexuality, and representations of the natural environment. Much of her work to date has been on ecofeminist readings of ancient literary texts but she is developing an interest in ecohorror and material ecocriticism. She is co-chair of the Irish Humanities Alliance Environmental Humanities Working Group.

David Conlon joined the School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Maynooth University following completion of his PhD at the University of Galway. His research focuses on contemporary Latin American literature and culture, with particular interests in crime narratives and ecocriticism.

Conrad Brunstrom is an Eighteenth-Centuryist who has authored two monographs on William Cowper and Thomas Sheridan and articles on authors as various as Matthew Prior, Samuel Johnson, Frances Burney, Charles Churchill and Philip Larkin. He has a strong interest in the pastoral.

William Desmond’s research centres on intellectual history, particularly in the Greek Classical period and certain modern receptions of antiquity; recurrent areas of interest include ethics, political thought, historiography and metaphysics. In addition to individual articles on a range of subjects, he has published five monographs and edited (or co-edited) three volumes.

Íde Corley is a Lecturer in English with research interests in postcolonial literatures and theory, black cultural studies, gender studies and queer theory. She has published essays and reviews on Anglophone African and black writing and cultural studies in Modern Language Studies, Interventions and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, including an essay to mark the 50th anniversary of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart in Interventions in 2008.

Elyse Ritchey’s primary research interests are in language endangerment and revitalisation, with a particular focus on the Occitan language of southern France. She also work in the fields of discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, multilingualism, and critical toponymy. Her teaching interests include synchronic and diachronic French linguistics and sociolinguistics and French language pedagogy. Before coming to Maynooth, she worked as a Lecturer of French Linguistics at Queen’s University, Belfast for one year.

Jon-Ivar Skullerud is an associate professor in theoretical physics and also has a BA equivalent in philosophy.  His physics research focuses on lattice gauge theory and the fundamental properties of strongly interacting matter.  He is also working on developing a non-exceptionalist account of human and animal nature, including ethics and epistemology, and exploring the deep history of our place in the world.

Anna Hickey-Moody is the inaugural Professor of Intersectional Humanities in the Arts and Humanities Research Institute at Maynooth. Her work explores intersecting angles of disadvantage through philosophical and creative approaches. However, her research also examines relationships between individuals and carbon-intensive industries and lifestyles, particularly within the context of the Anthropocene—the current geological epoch characterized by significant human impact on Earth’s geology and ecosystems.