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Dr. Nessa Cronin, Lecturer and Co-Director, MA in Irish Studies

Address:  Room 205, Martha Fox House, Distillery Rd., NUI Galway

Telephone:  353 (0)91 492893

Email: nessa.croninnuigalway.ie

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Dr Nessa Cronin read English and Philosophy for her undergraduate degree at Trinity College, Dublin (1998) and received an MA in Continental Philosophy and Literature from Warwick University (2000). She spent three years teaching English and French in Wales, Spain and Taiwan before returning to Ireland in 2003 to commence her doctoral research in Irish Studies at NUI Galway. Her doctoral thesis, The Eye of History: Spatiality and Colonial Cartography in Ireland (2007), focuses on the visual and linguistic construction of the modern Irish map through a critical examination of four key moments in Irish cartographic history.

She was the recipient of an IRCHSS Postgraduate Scholarship, an Arts Faculty Fellowship, and a Notre-Dame Summer School Fellowship for her doctoral research, and has subsequently been awarded fellowships and research awards by the IRCHSS (2007, 2011), European Science Foundation (2008) and Culture Ireland (2008) for her work in Irish cartographic history and Irish Place Studies.

Nessa is the author of several articles, reviews and conference reports on aspects of Irish historical geography and literary geographies, including contributions to Irish Studies Review, New Hibernia Review, Journal of Nordic Irish Studies, European Journal of English Studies, Journal of Historical Geography, The Cartographic Journal and Dialogues in Human Geography. Her book chapters include contributions to Ireland: Myth and Reality (2012), Irish Contemporary Landscapes in Literature and the Arts (2011), and India and Ireland: Colonies, Culture and Empire (2006). She is also co-editor with Seán Crosson and John Eastlake of Anáil an Bhéil Bheo: Orality and Modern Irish Culture (2009). Her current work on Irish Literary Geographies has involved the development of the interdisciplinary Irish Place Studies network, Ómós Áite at NUI Galway. She is a committee member of the Geographical Society of Ireland, the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, and is also the Irish co-convenor of the Mapping Spectral Traces international network.

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