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Post-doctoral Fellow
Address: Universiteto 5, LT-01513 Vilnius
Phone: +370 630 30014
Office hours: contact by email
Fields of research
- Contemporary women‘s literature
- Memoir and life writing
- Motherhood
- Gender studies
- Adaptation
Modules
- Contemporary Motherhood and Fatherhood BA
- Irish Repro-Fiction BA
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-reviewed articles
- 2026 “A King of Infinite (Cyber) Space? The Digital Remapping of Shakespeare in Light of The Globe’s Emma Rice Controversy”. Experiencing Shakespeare in Digital Environments (Special Issue Vol. 45) Lingue E Linguaggi. DOI: 10.1285/i22390359v45p113
- “Do you think Mammy’s alright?” – An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Themes of Irish Motherhood in Anne Enright’s The Green Road” co-written with Roisin Freeney, provisionally accepted for Global Narratives of Motherhood (Special Issue Vol. 67(4)), Literatūra. DOI: 10.15388/Litera.2025.67.4.5
- “Repro-Fiction as Resistance: Writing the Reproductive Body in Emilie Pine’s Notes to Self (2018)”. Signs. (In progress)
Peer-reviewed chapters
- “Grotesque Mat(t)er: Materiality and Matrilineality in Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet”. Progressive Intertextual Practise in Modern and Contemporary Literature. Routledge, 2024, pp. 90-113.
- “Choosing Childlessness: Familial and National Acts of Resistance in Preti Taneja's We That Are Young”. Negotiating Non-Motherhood: Representations, Perceptions and Experiences. Palgrave, 2025, pp. 171-196.
RESEARCH AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
PhD
- Doctorate in English Literature: Thy Mother’s Glass: Reflections on Motherhood in Contemporary Adaptations of Shakespeare
Research projects
- MotherNet H2020-WIDESPREAD-05-2020 Twinning https://www.mothernet.eu
Research grants, fellowships and scholarships
- 2025. ERA Postdoctoral Fellowship: ReproFiction: (Project No:101244691) Total Grant: €181,136.16
- 2020. Named Participant on H2020-Widespread-2020-5 Grant ‘MotherNet’. Total Grant: €898,178.75. Maynooth University Grant: €255, 416.25
- 2018. John & Pat Hume Doctoral Scholarhsip. Total Grant: €82,000
- 2016. Maynooth University Taught Masters Scholarship. Total Grant: €2000
Conferences and workshops organised
- 2026. International Conference on Medical Humanities, Birkbeck. Topic: "The one that matters": Reproductive Loss, Silence and Narrative Resistance in Emilie Pine's Notes to Self (2018)
- 2026. Thinking Motherhood Research Group, Vilnius. Topic: Repro-fiction as Resistance: Exploring a new genre in post-Repeal Irish literature
- 2025: Global Symposium on Pregnancy Loss, Online. Topic: “I am the only one without a bump: Exploring Pregnancy Loss and Infertility in Emilie Pine’s Notes to Self (2018)
- 2024. Sociological Association of Ireland Conference, Kildare. Topic: “Do you think Mammy’s alright?” – An interdisciplinary exploration of themes of Irish motherhood in Anne Enright’s The Green Road
- 2024. Thinking Through Motherhood Conference, Vilnius. Topic: “Do you think Mammy’s alright?” – An interdisciplinary exploration of themes of Irish motherhood in Anne Enright’s The Green Road
- 2021. British Graduate Shakespeare Conference, Online. Topic: “This creature, this woman, this elf, this sorceress, this forest sprite”: Reconfiguring Motherhood in Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet
- 2021. Maynooth University Motherhood and Work Conference, Online. Topic: Negotiating Motherhood in Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet
- 2021. European Shakespeare Research Association Conference, Online. Topic: “This creature, this woman, this elf, this sorceress, this forest sprite”: Reconfiguring Motherhood in Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet
- 2021. MotherNet Early Career Researcher Forum, Online. Topic: Representations of Motherhood in Irish Literary and Cultural Contexts
- 2020. Maynooth University Post-Graduate Sex and Gender Symposium, Online. Topic: “She Lives in Shakespeare: Representations of Motherhood in Jeanette Winterson’s The Gap of Time”
- 2020. British Graduate Shakespeare Conference, Online. Topic: “She Lives in Shakespeare: Representations of Motherhood in Jeanette Winterson’s The Gap of Time”
- 2019. European Shakespeare Research Association Conference, Rome. Topic: “Locating Shakespeare: The Digital Remapping of Shakespeare in Light of the Emma Rice Controversy at the Globe”
- 2019. Maynooth University Motherhood Project. Topic: Motherhood in Contemporary Adaptations of Shakespeare.