Charlotte McIvor (Principal Investigator) is Lecturer in Drama at NUI Galway and Director of Postgraduate Studies in Drama. Her research specialisations include intercultural performance at the intersection of migration and critical race and gender studies. She is currently at work on her Irish Research Council funded project, ‘Interculturalism, Migration and Performance in Contemporary Ireland’ and completing a monograph on this subject Towards A New Interculturalism: Migration and Contemporary Irish Performance (forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan). Her publications include Staging Intercultural Ireland: Plays and Practitioner Perspectives (co-edited with Matthew Spangler) and the forthcoming Devised Performance in Irish Theatre: Histories and Contemporary Practice (co-edited with Siobhán O’Gorman). Her work has appeared in Modern Drama and Irish University Review among others and multiple edited collections including ‘That Was Us’ Essays on Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance.
Jason King (Postdoctoral Researcher) has previously lectured at the University of Limerick, Concordia University, and NUI Maynooth. His research specializes in intercultural performance at the intersection of migration, memory, and literary studies in the past and present. His publications include “Irish Multiculturalism in Crisis: Integration, Migration, and Recession in Contemporary Ireland” (forthcoming special issue of Irish Studies Review, co-edited with Pilar Villar-Argaiz,), “Irish Global Migration and Memory” (special issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, co-edited by Marguérite Corporaal), “Memoir, Memory, and Migration in Irish Culture” (special issue of Irish Review, co-edited with Tina O’Toole), and Where is Home: An Educational Resource on Refugees in International and Irish Perspective (co-authored with Piaras Mac Éinrí). His work on interculturalism, migration, and Irish theatre and performance has appeared in Irish Review, Éire-Ireland, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies among other journals and multiple edited collections.
Jason King (Postdoctoral Researcher) has previously lectured at the University of Limerick, Concordia University, and NUI Maynooth. His research specializes in intercultural performance at the intersection of migration, memory, and literary studies in the past and present. His publications include “Irish Multiculturalism in Crisis: Integration, Migration, and Recession in Contemporary Ireland” (forthcoming special issue of Irish Studies Review, co-edited with Pilar Villar-Argaiz,), “Irish Global Migration and Memory” (special issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, co-edited by Marguérite Corporaal), “Memoir, Memory, and Migration in Irish Culture” (special issue of Irish Review, co-edited with Tina O’Toole), and Where is Home: An Educational Resource on Refugees in International and Irish Perspective (co-authored with Piaras Mac Éinrí). His work on interculturalism, migration, and Irish theatre and performance has appeared in Irish Review, Éire-Ireland, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies among other journals and multiple edited collections.