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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

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    FEATURED
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    Keynote talk at ‘Gothic and History: The Past as Nightmare’ interdisciplinary conference, University of Reading
    1 Jan 2022
    '“Fast lapsing back into barbarism”: Gothicising the Past in Late-Nineteenth Century Invasion and Catastrophe Fiction'
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    FEATURED
    Featured
    Fiction and Police Work: How a powerful BBC drama series raises awareness about child sexual exploitation
    30 Nov 2020
    Academic-practice collaborative article
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    FEATURED
    Featured
    Invited talk at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
    1 Nov 2019
    Title: '‘I cannot express how deeply this novel impacted on me’: An empirical study of reader responses to fictional representations of abuse and traumatic memory'
  • REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    Gothic Studies
    1 Jan 2023
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    ‘Communicating Climate Chaos: Tales from the Apocalypse’ (opens in a new tab)⁠
    1 Jan 2022
    British Academy-funded online public panel talk recorded at Museum of Literature Ireland
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION / PARTICIPATION
    Colloquium
    1 Jan 2022
    Co-convenor: ‘Prospective Anthropocenes and Speculative Environments’, British Academy funded round-table talk
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION / PARTICIPATION
    Conference
    1 Jan 2022
    Panel convenor: 'The enduring appeal of invasion propaganda', Britain Afraid Conference, Liverpool John Moores University
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    Invited talk at School of English staff-postgraduate seminar series, Trinity College Dublin
    1 Jan 2022
    Title: ‘From After London to The Poison Belt: Conventions and divergences in fin-de-siècle tales of natural and environmental catastrophe’
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION / PARTICIPATION
    Symposium (opens in a new tab)⁠
    25 May 2021
    Wellcome Trust-funded symposium exploring how child sexual abuse is represented in contemporary culture in works like novels, films and TV series, and seeking to understand how these representations affect both survivors and general audiences. Features talks by CSA survivors; talks by cultural scholars who work on representations of child sexual abuse in literature, drama and film; talks by scholars from other disciplines, such as history, sociology, social work, criminology and psychology, who research child sexual abuse; talks by scholars of narrative medicine and creative media effects; and talks by support professionals and health practitioners who work with survivors of abuse.
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION / PARTICIPATION
    Symposium
    1 Jan 2021
    Panel convener: ‘Disaster and Environmental Crises’ panel, Empire and Ecologies online symposium, UCD
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    Radio Interview: 'The Threatened Child in Victorian Culture'
    1 Sep 2020
    2-part Interview, Culture File, RTE Lyric FM
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION / PARTICIPATION
    Seminars (opens in a new tab)⁠
    1 Feb 2020
    Wellcome Trust-funded seminar series exploreing how child sexual abuse is represented in contemporary culture in works like novels, films and TV series, and seeking to understand how these representations affect both survivors and general audiences. Opened with a witness seminar by survivors of sexual violence giving their perspectives on how culture supports sexual violence.
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    Invited talk at University of Aberdeen Centre for the Novel
    1 Jan 2020
    ‘Natural and Environmental Catastrophe in Late Victorian Popular Fiction’
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    Selected participant at British Academy and the Royal Irish Academy Knowledge Frontiers Symposium
    1 Jan 2020
    'Natures, cultures and communities’: Environmental Humanities Joint Symposium
  • REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    Victorian Studies
    1 Jan 2020
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION / PARTICIPATION
    Workshop (opens in a new tab)⁠
    20 Sep 2019
    Victorian Popular Fiction Association Study Day: The Threatened Child in Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction and Culture
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    Interview: ‘Climate Change: Can Stories Save The World?'
    1 Feb 2019
    Interview, Arena, RTE Radio 1
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    Interview: ‘The Day After Tomorrow, figuratively speaking’
    1 Feb 2019
    Interview, Culture File, RTE Lyric FM
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    ‘Sexual Violence and the Irish State’
    1 Jan 2019
    Public ‘Witness’ lecture with CSA survivor speakers, launch event for UCD College of Arts and Humanities Violence and Society Strategic Research Theme
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    Honorary Research Fellow, Discipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin
    1 Jan 2019
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    Invited talk: Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Institute Behind the Headlines public seminar series
    1 Jan 2019
    Title: ‘Climate Change: Can Stories Save the World?’
  • PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION
    Irish Network for Nineteenth-Century Studies
    1 Jan 2019
  • REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    Manchester University Press
    1 Jan 2019
  • REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    Victorian Popular Fiction Journal
    1 Jan 2019 - 1 Jan 2019
    Anonymous peer review
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    ‘Cultural representations of child sexual abuse’
    1 Jan 2018
    Invited talk for clinicians at Crumlin Hospital’s paediatric CSA unit