Drawing on contemporary Irish visual art, Dr. Sarah Churchill will examine the history of colonial dispossession that haunts 21st-century Ireland’s acute housing crisis and troubles its domesticity in a talk entitled “Suburban Gothic: The Haunted Home in Contemporary Irish Photography.” This *public* talk will be hosted by the Post-1939 Irish Literature class in AUST 103 at 12:30pm.
Churchill is the current Postdoctoral Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Her dissertation, Slums in the Sky: How Photography Killed Mass Social Housing in Britain, was awarded the 2024 Neil Reimer Prize in Democratic Political Theory. Her article, “Domestic Documents: Contemporary Photography and the Irish Housing Crisis,” is forthcoming in Irish University Review. Churchill has an M.Phil. in Irish art history from Trinity College Dublin and completed her Ph.D. in cultural history at Drew University.
Free & open to all
mary.burke@uconn.edu for accommodations/queries * Sponsors: Irish Studies & the English Department
For more information, contact: Mary Burke at mary.burke@uconn.edu