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DrAilise Bulfin

Lecturer/Assistant Professor

School of English, Drama and Film

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  • Lecturer/Assistant Professor
    School of English, Drama and Film
  • University College Dublin, School of English Drama and Film, Newman Building Belfield Dublin 4

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Nineteenth century literature and culture; contemporary literature and culture; popular fiction and popular culture, including the gothic/horror, crime and science fiction genres; young adult fiction; medical humanities; representations of sexual violence; empire fiction; war fiction; environmental humanities; catastrophe fiction and film; representations of climate change and environmental disaster; cognitive and empirical literary and cultural studies

GRANTS

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    Investigating Fictional Representations of Child Sexual Abuse in Contemporary Culture: Myths and Understanding (CSAReps)
    Horizon Europe1 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2028
    People funded by this grant:
    • Bulfin A
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    Featured
    As Co-I: Narratology, Linguistics and Cognition: Interdisciplinary Studies on Storyworld Possible Selves, Narrative Intersubjectivity, and Engagement. University of Alcalá. PI: Assoc. Prof. Maria-Angeles Martínez
    Spanish Government Programme for Research into Social Challenges1 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2023
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    Violence as Contagious: Historicising Anglophone Narratives of Violence, Health, and Disease, 1800s to the Present (opens in a new tab)⁠
    DOROTHY MSCA COFUND1 Jan 2025 - 31 Mar 2027
    Research Ireland, EU Horizon MSCA, Health Research Board, and Environmental Protection Agency
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    Representations of Child Sexual Abuse in Contemporary Culture: Myths and Understanding (CSAREPS)
    Enterprise Ireland (EI)6 Aug 2020 - 31 Oct 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Bulfin A
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    As Co-I: Communicating Climate Chaos: Tales from the Apocalypse
    British Academy1 Apr 2020 - 1 Aug 2021
    Seed Funding Grant
  • GRANT
    As Co-I: Prospective Anthropocenes and Speculative Environments
    British Academy1 Apr 2020 - 1 Aug 2021
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    Societal Challenge 6 Brokerage Event & Proposal Check organized by Net4Society on 12-13 November 2
    Enterprise Ireland (EI)19 Jul 2019 - 18 Jan 2020
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    The Threatened Child in Victorian Popular Fiction and Culture
    University College Dublin (UCD)17 Apr 2019 - 20 Nov 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Bulfin A
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    As Co-I: Catalysing Neurohumanities Research into Child Sexual Abuse
    1 Feb 2018 - 1 Sep 2018
  • GRANT
    Cultural representations of child sexual abuse: the myths and the fears
    Royal Irish Academy (Ria)1 Jan 2018 - 31 Dec 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Bulfin A
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    The international circulation and impact of invasion fiction: Case study of William Le Queux’s The Invasion of 1910 (1906)
    University College Dublin1 Jan 2018 - 1 Dec 2018
    High-quality publications
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    ‘Literature and Propaganda: Transnational Fears of Invasion and Conflict 1870-1933’
    Irish Research Council1 Jan 2017 - 31 Dec 2017
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    As Co-I: 'Addressing the problem of child sexual abuse in Ireland: progress through partnership'
    Irish Research Council1 Jan 2017 - 31 Dec 2017
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    ‘An investigation of the impact of invasion scare fiction on pre-World War I British society
    Royal Irish Academy1 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2016
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    ‘Gothic Invasions: Imperialism and Fin-de-Siècle Popular Fiction
    Irish Research Council1 Oct 2014 - 30 Sep 2016
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    ‘“To Arms!”: Narratives of Invasion Anxiety 1890-1914
    Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences1 Oct 2008 - 30 Apr 2011