Adam Hanna is a Senior Lecturer in Irish Literature in the Department of English at University College Cork. He is the author of Northern Irish Poetry and Domestic Space and Poetry, Politics, and the Law in Modern Ireland (awarded the honourable mention for the American Conference of Irish Studies Robert Rhodes Prize), and is the co-editor of three collections.
Adrian Kane is a national secretary with SIPTU. He first became active in the Trade Union movement in his early twenties while working with Bord na Móna in the late 1980s. He has academic qualifications in Industrial relations and Employment Law. He is the author of Trade Unions (Cork University Press, 2023).
Adrian Mulligan is a UCC graduate and a Professor of Geography at Bucknell University in the United States, and a member of the Globe Lane Initiative, who resides in Clonakilty, County Cork. He is a passionate advocate of recovering ‘useful’ historical geography to counteract discrimination and hatred in society.
Alexandra Maclennan is Associate Professor HDR at the University of Caen. She published L’Etat et la culture en Irlande prefaced by Michael D. Higgins, Histoire de l’Irlande de 1912 à nos jours, and her biography of Cardinal Owen McCann will be published in 2025 by University of Notre Dame Press.
Alfred Markey lectures in English at the University of León, Spain. His research focuses on Sean O’Faolain, Ireland and Postcolonialism; on the role of the public intellectual; and the relationship between the humanities and medical science. He is a managing editor of the Irish studies journal Estudios Irlandeses.
Andrea Zvoníčková is a PhD student at the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Charles University in Prague. Her doctoral research focuses on British and Irish literature, particularly examining the role of space and consciousness in the works of Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen.
Chandana Mathur was educated at the University of Delhi and the New School for Social Research, New York, and teaches at the Anthropology Department of Maynooth University. Drawing on anthropological political economy and political ecology, her research focuses on the United States, South Asia and the South Asian diaspora.
Charlotte Barcat. Lecturer at Nantes Université since 2017. Member of the CRINI research unit and of theCentre d’Excellence Jean Monnet UNIPAIX– a pluridisciplinary project aiming at developing peace studies in France, in connection with European Studies. Worked on Bloody Sunday and legacy, and on EU programmes in the city of Derry-Londonderry.
Claire Dubois is an Assistant Professor in Irish history at Lille University, in France. She works on visual culture, architecture, the press, travel writing, national identity and its expressions. Her book, L’art comme arme en politique. Les combats de Constance Markievicz, was published in 2024. She is currently working on the representation of Ireland’s revolution in France.
Danny Shanahan is an IRC-funded postdoctoral research fellow in the School of English at University College Cork, developing the monograph 'Disturbed Areas: Literature and Emergency Law in Kashmir and Northern Ireland'. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2024. From September 2025 he will be a visiting research fellow at Stanford University, California for two years as part of the Marie Curie Global Fellowship, and will subsequently return to UCC for the third and final year of the project. The fellowship will see him complete a second monograph, provisionally entitled 'Waking the Dead: Fiction and the Archival Gap in Ireland, India and the Black Atlantic'.
Ellen Howley is an Assistant Professor at DCU’s School of English. Her monograph Oceanic Connections: The Sea in Irish and Caribbean Poetry, is forthcoming from Syracuse University Press. She co-edited, alongside Ian Hickey, Seamus Heaney’s Mythmaking, published by Routledge in 2023. She has published work in Irish Studies Review and the Journal of Commonwealth Literature.
Emer Nolan is Professor of English at Maynooth University. Her most recent book is Five Irish Women: The Second Republic, 1960-2016 (2019)
Evi Gkotzaridis is a historian specializing on Ireland and Greece. She holds a doctorate in Irish history from the Sorbonne Nouvelle. She has authored three books and several peer-reviewed articles. In the past she has lived and taught in Dublin and Athens. She currently teaches US and British political institutions at the University of Versailles Saint Quentin-en- Yvelines.
Fabrice Mourlon is Professor of British and Irish Studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle. He works on Northern Ireland and post-conflict society, and is interested in small parties such as the Communist Party of Ireland, People Before Profit and the Anarchist movement. He is vice-president of the SOFEIR and director the doctoral school (ED 625 MAGGIE) at the Sorbonne Nouvelle.
Flore Coulouma is associate professor in the English department at Université Paris Nanterre. She is currently co-editing the collective volume Strange Country: Ireland’s Politics and Culture, 1998-2021, following the 2021 SOFEIR conference at Nanterre Université. Her current research focuses on the representation of environmental and criminal justice in contemporary Irish, Native-American and Palestinian-American fiction.
Hafsa Askar is a PhD student under contract at La Sorbonne Nouvelle. Her research focuses on the construction of political and cultural images of anti-imperialist revolutionaries in a transnational context, with case studies on The Black Panther Party and the Provisional IRA. Her work is situated within the fields of American and Irish studies.
Hiram Morgan is currently head of the School of History at University College Cork. He has edited Political Ideology in Ireland, 1541-1641, Information, Media and Power through the Ages and the Battle of Kinsale. He founded and co-edited History Ireland, is director of CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts of Ireland and is working on a biography of Hugh O’Neill.
Hope Noonan Stoner is a doctoral student at UCC English, funded by Research Ireland. She holds an MA in Irish Writing and Film from UCC and another MA in Global Security and Borders from Queen’s University Belfast. Her PhD focuses on the diasporic, transnational, and postcolonial connections between modernist poets Lola Ridge and Julia de Burgos.
Joanna Wharton is a senior postdoctoral researcher at UCC’s School of English. She has published widely on literary and scientific culture in eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland, and is Principle Investigator on the Research Ireland funded project, Lines of Communication: Telegraphy, Literature, and Security in Ireland and the British Empire, 1794-1850.
Kamel Salmi: Ph.D. student at Sorbonne Nouvelle University, conducting a comparative study of diasporas in the English and French-speaking world. My research focuses on the question of immigration, but also covers topics such as coloniality, national identity, assimilation and integration. Thesis title: France and the United Kingdom, lands of exile: a comparative study of the Algerian and Irish diasporas post-independence.
Kerron Ó Luain is an historian from Dublin and activist with the left-wing Irish-language organisation, Misneach. His forthcoming book, “Cath idir an pobal agus an murder machine”: Gluaiseacht na Gaelscolaíochta, c.1973-2023, will be published with Bradán Feasa in the Spring of 2025.
Kevin Doyle is a PhD research student at the University of Limerick. He is half Irish and half French, and spent his childhood living in West Asia. The focus of his research is the response to the Irish Troubles in France, 1968-1998.
Lionel Pilkington is Emeritus Professor of English (University of Galway). He has research interests in Marxism, decolonisation, and Irish theatre history. He is the author of Theatre and the State in 20th Century Ireland (2001) and Theatre & Ireland (2010) and is currently writing a book on theatre, performance and political economy in 1980s Ireland.
Louise Gerbier is a PhD candidate in Irish studies & political science. A graduate of the ENS de Lyon and teaching assistant at the Université de Tours, her work looks at the relationship between the physiological and material experience of violence at individual level and its articulation by the collective political body.
Luke Watson is an early career researcher from University College Cork who has just recently submitted his PhD, which concerns the impact of the French Revolution on Irish political discourse. His research interests include Franco-Irish history, social history and post-colonial discourse. He is based out of Cork, Ireland.
Marie-Violaine Louvet is a Senior Lecturer at Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès. She is the author of Civil Society, Postcolonialism and Transnational Solidarity: The Irish and the Middle East Conflict (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) & The Irish Against the War: Postcolonialism & Political Activism in Contemporary Ireland (Peter Lang, 2024).
Magali Dexpert completed her PhD at Stendhal University Grenoble, France.She teaches at Valence Institute of Technology. She researches Northern Irish politics, the Troubles and the Peace Process as well as the repercussions of Brexit. She is currently a member of ILCEA4 research team at Grenoble Alpes University and has been a member of the SOFEIR since 2008.
Marion Naugrette-Fournier is a Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies & Irish Studies at the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle. She is writing a monograph about the recycling processes in Derek Mahon’s poetry. She won the 2015 EFACIS prize for her translations of poems by W.B. Yeats. She has also co- translated Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth into French, forthcoming 2025.
John Murray is an associate professor of Mathematics at Maynooth University. He received his PhD in 1998 from University of Illinois, USA, and his research is in the area of Representation Theory.
Mark Walsh is an associate professor of Mathematics at Maynooth University. He received his PhD in 2009 from University of Oregon, USA, and his research is in the areas of Differential Geometry and Topology.
Martin O’Donoghue is Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt where he researches Ireland and India. He is the author of The Legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland,and, with Emer Purcell, editor of John Redmond and Irish Parliamentary Traditions.
Michael G Cronin is Lecturer in English at Maynooth University. He is the author of Revolutionary Bodies (MUP, 2023) and Sexual/Liberation (Síreacht/UCC Press, 2022).
Molly-Claire Gillett is a 2024-2026 Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow, conducting an international study examining craft practice in rural women’s groups in Ireland and Canada at the Centre for Irish Studies, University of Galway & Trent Centre for Aging and Society, Trent University (Ontario).
Oliver O’Hanlon received his PhD from University College Cork in 2024 for a thesis on the evolution of the French political perception of Ireland through the writing of several grand reporter journalists in the 20th century. He is a regular contributor to the Irish Times’ Irishman’s Diary column on diverse subjects linked to Irish history.
Olivier Coquelin is Senior Lecturer in British and Irish Studies at the University of Caen Normandy. His research focuses on the history and ideology of Irish political and social movements in the period eighteenth to twentieth century, the Irish Revolution, especially the Irish ‘soviets’. His latest publications include L’Irlande en révolutions, entre nationalismes et conservatismes and Retreat From Revolution: Irish Working Class Politics in the 1920s.
Omkolthoum ElSayed ElBadawy – Cairo University. A seasoned public health professional with 20 years of experience and a PhD researcher. Serves in the Unified Procurement Authority in Egypt as Director of Planning and Decision Support. A WHO-certified infodemic manager and evidence-informed policy-making advisor for the WHO HQ. Has first-hand experience working with high-level policymakers and experts.
Przemysław Michalski read English literature at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He has written two books and a number of essays on English and Polish poetry. He holds the position of assistant professor at the University of the National Education Commission in Krakow, where he teaches English literature.
Paddy Brennan is a PhD candidate at the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Irish Studies. He is completing a Blair Chair-funded thesis on Consumption and Self-Starvation in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Irish Fiction. He has also contributed a chapter to the recent Routledge Companion to Sally Rooney.
Pauline Collombier is a professor at the university of Lorraine (Metz) in British and Irish history. Previously a Senior Lecturer at the University of Strasbourg. She researches Irish nationalism in the long nineteenth century, home rule and Anglo-Irish relations, Ireland and the British empire. Her latest book is Imagining Ireland’s Future, 1870-1914: Home Rule, Utopia, Dystopia.
Philippe Brillet, MD, is a specialist in Public Health and Infectious diseases, and a geographer. After some research of Irish health care and an agrégation d’anglais, he turned toward the cultural and religious geography of Ireland and is now professor of Irish studies at the university of Tours.
Raphaël Willay is a Senior Lecturer in British and Irish Studies at ULCO. He oversees the professional bachelor's and master's programs in tour guiding, and will lead the upcoming MA in International Tourism & Cultural Heritage, set to launch in September 2025. He leads and participates in transnational research projects, including on WWI memorial practices and remembrance tourism.
Sarah Levy Valensi is a third-year PhD student at the University of Caen Normandie, France. She is a member of the doctoral School 'Normandy Humanities' and the ERIBIA research group. Her PhD thesis, supervised by Mr. Bertrand Cardin, professor of Irish contemporary literature at the University of Caen Normandie, is entitled 'Mirror Effects in the McCourt Brothers' Autobiographical Texts’.
Sinéad Kennedy teaches in the English Department at Maynooth University in Ireland. Her works focuses on intersection of Marxism and feminism. She was the co-founder of the Coalition to Repeal the Eighth Amendment, a coalition of 100-plus organisations that led the campaign to repeal Ireland’s Constitutional ban on abortion.
Susan Manly teaches at St Andrews, edited three volumes of Edgeworth’s works and Maria Edgeworth: Selected Tales for Children and Young People (2013). She wrote Language, Custom and Nation: Locke, Tooke, Wordsworth, Edgeworth and many articles and book chapters on Edgeworth, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, and radical Romantic-era writing for children. She is currently completing a political biography of Edgeworth.
Sylvie Kleinman (Visiting Research Fellow, History, TCD) has published widely on the life and legacy of Theobald Wolfe Tone and Franco-Irish links in the 1790s, including cross-linguistic communication. She has lectured in European and Irish history (TCD, UCD) and in autumn 2023 was co-curator and historical researcher for The Year of the French exhibition at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris.
Tim Heron / Tadhg Ó hErodáin is an associate professor in Irish and British at the University of Strasbourg, France and is the current secretary of the SOFEIR. His PhD researched Northern Ireland punk subculture during the 'Troubles'. Tadhg is currently working on a new research project on Ireland’s holy wells, at the intersection of environmentalism, folklore and neo-paganism.
Lugh Ó hErodáin is a certified medical herbalist based in County Cork, and a foraging instructor. He is involved with the Herbal Alliance, an organisation fostering collaboration within the professional herbalist community and was the editor of the Herbal Eye, a collaborative herbalist journal. He researches the “French Eclectic Doctors” and translating the works of Dr Henri Leclerc.
Ugo Ryckman is a doctoral student in Irish and British studies at the University of Pau. He is a member of the SOFEIR and of the AFIS. His work focuses on institutions in which nationalist identities evolve. This includes parliaments and sporting bodies. His thesis is about surfing in Ireland and in Great Britain (1940-1999).
Valérie Morisson is Professor of British and Irish cultural history at Université Paul Valéry Montpellier. She writes on Irish and British visual culture with emphasis on artistic praxis and field work. Her book, Locating the Self / Welcoming the Other in British and Irish Art 1990-2020 investigates artists and belongingness. She researches environmental art and artists’ intimate relation with landscape.
Verena Commins is lecturer in Irish music studies at University of Galway with research interests in Irish music-making practices and contexts. These incorporate theoretical and conceptual approaches through gender, language, cultural production and identity. Recent publications include a chapter on Kneecap in the forthcoming Ashgate Popular and Folk Music series on ‘Minority languages in contemporary music’ (2025).
Yasmine Zein Al-Abedine: Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science (FEPS), Future University in Egypt (FUE). In 2018, she got her PhD. degree in Political Science. She is also the head of Quality Assurance Unit at FEPS-FUE. She contributed to numerous research projects.
