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DrMartha Shearer

(she/her)

Lecturer/Assistant Professor

School of English, Drama and Film

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  • Lecturer/Assistant Professor
    School of English, Drama and Film
  • 01 716 7504
  • University College Dublin, School of English Drama and Film, James Joyce Library Building Belfield Dublin 4

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Cinema, space, and urban studies
  • US cinema, from the coming of sound to the present
  • Genre, especially the musical, romantic comedy, and horror
  • Feminist film history, especially women's authorship and creative labour and the relationship between cinema and feminist activism


I am currently supervising a PhD on glamour and neoliberalism on screen.

 

I have previously supervised:

  • Deborah Schrijvers, "Against Imperial Extinction Narratives: Wildlife, (In)visibility, and Temporality in the Moving Image" (PhD awarded 2025).
  • Harriet Idle, "Close Encounters: Urban Space and Global Romantic Comedy" (PhD awarded 2025).

 

GRANTS

  • PROJECT GRANT
    Labour Studies in and beyond the humanities: A postgraduate symposium
    University College Dublin (UCD)7 Apr 2026 - 7 Oct 2027
    People funded by this grant: