Members

Co-Leader

Dr Loïc Bourdeau

School of Modern Languages | Maynooth University

Loïc Bourdeau is Lecturer in French Studies and Medical Humanities at National University of Ireland, Maynooth and formerly College of Liberal Arts Board of Regents Endowed Associate Professor of French and…

Co-Leader

Prof Fintan Sheerin

School of Nursing | Maynooth University

Fintan is the Professor of Nursing and Founding Head of the School of Nursing at Maynooth University. A registered General and Intellectual Disability nurse, he has extensive experience across various fields of practice. His PhD, initiated in 1999…

Dr Áine Larkin

School of Modern Languages | Maynooth University

I joined Maynooth University as Lecturer in French in January 2022, after ten happy years at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Drawing on my doctoral research, my monograph Proust Writing Photography was published…

Dr Rodrigo Lopez Martinez

School of Modern Languages | Maynooth University

I am an Assistant Professor / Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies in the School of Modern Languages. I previously studied Literature, with a focus on Literary Theory, at the University of Buenos Aires…

Prof Deborah Hayden

School of Celtic Studies | Maynooth University

I completed a BA in Liberal Arts, with a double major in French and Latin, at Wellesley College and the Université de Provence Aix-Marseille before taking a second undergraduate degree in Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic at the University of Cambridge. I then completed an MPhil (2006)…

Prof Moynagh Sullivan

English | Maynooth University

I am a Professor of English with specialties in Gender, Intersectionality, Motherhood, and Irish Studies. 
I am currently the Faculty of Arts HEA PATH4 Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Fellow (2023-2025)…

External associates

Prof. Jocelyn Brown

Columbia University

Dr. Fraser Riddell

Institute for Medical Humanities | Durham University

Fraser Riddell (he/him) is Associate Professor in English and Medical Humanities in the Department of English Studies and the Institute for Medical Humanities. He teaches literature in English from Shakespeare to the present day. His research is broadly focussed on questions of gender, sexuality and embodied experience in Victorian and early-twentieth century literature…

Dr. Laura Lazzari

The Sasso Corbaro Foundation for the Medical Humanities (Switzerland) | The Department of Italian Studies and the Georgetown Medical Humanities Initiative, Georgetown University (USA)

Prof. Steven Wilson

School of Arts, English and Languages | Queen’s University Belfast

Steven Wilson is Professor of French Studies and Medical Humanities in the School of Arts, English and Languages. He was first appointed to a Lectureship at QUB in 2013, having previously taught at the Universities of Manchester, Exeter and Leicester…

Dr David Treanor

School of Humanities | University of Tasmania

David’s research emanates from his work experiences and studies in social work, ageing, disability, public administration, theology and philosophy. David’s work in these fields drives his passion to develop and implement authentic models…

Dr Petra Björne

City of Malmö · Department for Disability Support

Petra Björne, with a PhD in cognitive science, works as a research and development coordinator at the Department for Disability Support in Malmö, Sweden. Her task is to help staff and managers to develop high…