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Dr Niamh Ann Kelly
Niamh Ann’s bio
Dr Niamh Ann Kelly lectures on the BA Creative Industries and Visual Culture (CIViC) and MA in Visual and Critical Studies and is a Fellow of the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media (GradCAM). A graduate of National College of Art and Design, Dublin (Joint Honours BA Degree in Painting and the History of Art, 1997, and MA Degree in the History of Art, 1999), she has a PhD, cum laude, from the University of Amsterdam (2010), where she studied at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis.
Her monograph publications are Imaging the Great Irish Famine: Representing Dispossession in Visual Culture (2020/2018), Bloomsbury Academic and; Ultimate Witnesses: The Visual Culture of Death, Burial and Mourning Famine Ireland (2017), Quinnipiac University Press.
She had contributed chapters on contemporary art and commemorative visual culture to a number of publications including: Irish Famines Before and After The Great Hunger (2020) Quinnipiac university/Cork University Press; Art and Architecture of Ireland, Volume V, (The Twentieth Century), (2014), Royal Irish Academy/Yale University Press; Art and Architecture of Ireland, Volume III, (Sculpture and Sculptures )(2014), Royal Irish Academy/Yale University Press; Memory Ireland Volume III: Cruxes in Irish Cultural Memory – The Famine and the Troubles (2014), Syracuse University Press; Art and Visibility in Migratory Culture – Conflict, Resistance, and Agency (2011), Rodopi; Ireland’s Great Hunger, Volume 2 (2010), University Press of America; Representation Matters: (Re) Articulating Collective Identities in a Postcolonial World (2010), Rodopi; Hugh Lane: Founder of a Gallery of Modern Art for Ireland (2008) Scala. She is a board member for TU Dublin of the Irish Humanities Alliance.
