Dr Ciara Chambers

Dr Ciara Chambers is Senior Lecturer in Film and Screen Media.
Department roles incl.: ACE Liaison; Puttnam Scholarship Coordinator.

Author of Ireland in the Newsreels (Irish Academic Press, 2012) and co-editor of Researching Newsreels (Palgrave, 2018), she has contributed chapters on newsreels and amateur film to various journals and edited collections. She is a member of the International Association for Media and History's council and the editorial teams of Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media and Estudios Irlandeses. She was scriptwriter and associate producer of Ireland in the Newsreels, a six-part BAI-funded television series broadcast on TG4. She is currently working on the AHRC/IRC-funded Make Film History project in partnership with Kingston University, BBC, the British Film Institute, Northern Ireland Screen and the Irish Film Institute and is producer of the play Souls, Shadows and Secrets .

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Office: O'Rahilly Building, G27c
Tel: 021 490 5162
Email: ciara.chambers@ucc.ie 

Dr Abigail Keating

Dr Abigail Keating is Lecturer in Film and Screen Media.
Department roles incl.: BA Degree Director; 2nd Year Coordinator; Erasmus/International Students Coordinator.

Her main research areas include women and film/media, contemporary cinema, screen media culture, protest media, and pop culture, on which she has published widely. She has worked freelance as an editor and videographer for many local and national organisations, and has worked in collaboration with the Irish Film Institute a number of times, through projects and lecture series. She is currently working on a book on women and the contemporary screen.

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Office: 2 Carrigside 2nd Floor 
Tel: 021 490-2656 
Email: abigail.keating@ucc.ie

Dr Barry Monahan

Dr Barry Monahan is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies.
Department roles incl.: PhD Coordinator, Research Officer.

His main teaching and research interests are: the history and aesthetics of Irish and other national cinemas and film theory.

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Office: O'Rahilly Building
Tel: 021 490-2515
Email: b.monahan@ucc.ie

Dr James Mulvey

Dr James Mulvey is Lecturer in Film Studies.

His main teaching and research interests include the essay film, the portrait film, fiction/non-fiction and film-philosophy. He is a member of the Consultative Board for Alphaville Journal of Film and Screen Media and the English Language Editor for Cinergie Journal. He is the Early Careers Researcher representative for the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) in the division of film studies. He is the features and documentary programmer for IndieCork film festival, with an emphasis on fostering independent, essayistic and art cinema, where he focuses on developing links between the academic and filmic communities.

Mr Dan O'Connell

Mr Dan O'Connell is Lecturer in Filmmaking and Co-Head of Department.
Department roles incl.: Mature Students Liaison; 3rd Year Coordinator; Media Marketing Officer

He is a multi award-winning director and has written and directed dozens of short films and documentaries, which have been screened at film festivals both locally and internationally. He is Director at SUPEREGO, a high-quality video production company with large multinational clients, which aims to deliver promotional, fashion and event video to a growing online market. He is also founder of egomotion.net, Cork's online filmmaking hub with over 400 members, where filmmakers can share knowledge, participate in each other's projects and share resources. Egomotion have also hosted various screenings, workshops and meet-and-greets in order to promote local filmmaking talent.

Office: Kane B10D
Tel: 021 490-2237
Email: danieloconnell@ucc.ie
Website: www.superego.ie

Professor Laura Rascaroli

Laura Rascaroli is Professor in Film and Screen Media.

Her research interests span European and World cinemas; experimental nonfiction, the essay film, and first-person cinemas; artist film and the post-medium moving image; film space and geopolitics; and the politics of form. She is the author of several monographs, including How the Essay Film Thinks (Oxford UP, 2017), The Personal Camera: Subjective Cinema and the Essay Film (Wallflower, 2009), and Crossing New Europe: Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie (Wallflower, 2006), and coeditor of collections including Expanding Cinema: Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art (Amsterdam UP, 2020) and Antonioni: Centenary Essays (BFI, 2011). Her work has been translated into several languages. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media.

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Office: O'Rahilly Building 1.26
Tel: 021 490-2471
Email: l.rascaroli@ucc.ie

Dr Gwenda Young

Dr Gwenda Young is Lecturer in Film and Screen Media and Co-Head of Department.
Department roles incl.: MA Director; MRes Coordinator; Library Officer; Arts Council/Film Artist Coordinator.

Her research interests include silent cinema; film history, biography and auteur studies; animals on screen; the classical Hollywood studio system, as well as a developing interest in museums and curation. She has authored essays in both academic journals and edited collections, and has co-edited two collections, Molly Keane: Centenary Essays (2005, with Eibhear Walshe) and Amateur Filmmaking  (2014, with Barry Monahan and Laura Rascaroli), and several issues of Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media. She published her monograph on American director Clarence Brown, Clarence Brown: Hollywood’s Forgotten Master (UP Kentucky) in 2018. She has been a guest contributor to documentary films, podcasts and news segments, both national and international, has written forClassicMovieHub and for the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, and advised and helped to curate two international film festivals, the most recent of which was the Clarence Brown Film Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee (2023). Since 2018 she has collaborated with Dan O’Connell on the Creative Ireland/Cork County Council funded project, ‘Cork Movie Memories’, whose outputs include the documentary Movie Memories (2018) and an online archive, corkmoviememories.com. Her current research projects focus on the life and work of American film director Marshall Neilan, and on nonhuman animals in the museum space. 

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Office: O'Rahilly Building 1.83
Tel: 021 490-2776
Email: g.young@ucc.ie

Tom Hall

Tom Hall is Arts Council/UCC Film Artist in Residence.

Tom Hall studied film at the Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design. In 1996 he founded High-Hat Productions with the aim of producing original drama. His first film as co-writer/director was the no-budget feature November Afternoon (Irish Times Film of the year 1997). For Samson films he directed the T.V. movie Just in Time (1999) which was also acclaimed as the Times’ TV movie of that year. His best-known show is Bachelors Walk (2001-06), a comedy/drama series for Accomplice Television which was funded by RTE, the IFB and BBC Choice, ran for three series and won the IFTA award for best Irish television series in 2002. Tom was one of three co creators/writers/directors on all twenty episodes. In 2009 Tom wrote and directed Sensation for Blinder Films starring Domhnall Gleeson in his first leading role. Two series of Trivia for RTE and Grand Pictures followed and in 2015 he directed episodes of Red Rock for Element/TV3. Tom wrote and directed episodes of Modern Love for Amazon Prime starring Anne Hathaway, Tina Fey and others in 2019. His most recent work was as lead Director on Northern Lights for Lionsgate/TG4 for which he was again IFTA nominated. Tom has worked with many leading film industry figures at home and abroad has taught scriptwriting, acting and filmmaking at various institutions in Ireland. Tom is also an award-winning writer of fiction, a critic, columnist and one time screen editor of The Dubliner magazine.

Email: tom.hall@ucc.ie

Ms Linda Murphy

Ms Linda Murphy, Executive Assistant.

Office: O'Rahilly Building 1.83
E-mail: lindapmurphy@ucc.ie
Tel: 353 021 490-3863 

Mr Barry Reilly

Mr Barry Reilly is Apple Certified Trainer and Senior Technical Officer in Film and Screen Media.

Department roles incl.: Health and Safety Officer; Fire Marshal.

A graduate in Broadcast Systems Engineering, he went on to work for one of Ireland's largest independent Broadcasters as a Broadcast Technician. His role there included technical supervision of the company’s live studio events as well as broadcast engineer on global news channel guest interviews. He manages the film equipment and technical infrastructure for the Department.

Office: Kane B10D 
Email: barry.reilly@ucc.ie 
Tel: 021 490-2237