(DPhil Oxon; BA and MA University College Dublin) Professor in Italian and Head of Italian, Trinity College Dublin. She was Interdisciplinary Italy’s deviser and its Principal Investigator and continues to provide its intellectual leadership (as International Co-investigator since her transfer to Ireland in 2017).
Clodagh has published widely on twentieth- and twenty-first century Italian culture, on cinema, poetry and interart/intermedia practice, on cultural dissent, identity, and religion. She is author of Screening Religions in Italy: Contemporary Italian Cinema and Television in the Post-secular Public Sphere (UTP, 2019), Marco Bellocchio: The Cinematic Eye in the Political Sphere (UTP, 2009) and The Expression of the Inexpressible in the Poetry of Eugenio Montale: Metaphor, Silence, and Negation (OUP, 2002), as well as co-edited books and special issues such as Open Works: Italian Creative Intermediality (Italian Studies journal, 2019) Transmedia: Storia, memoria e narrazioni attraverso i media (Mimesis, 2014) and Resisting the Tide: Cultures of Opposition under Berlusconi (Continuum, 2010), as well as numerous articles, including those co-written by the Interdisciplinary Italy team. Since 2007, she has won research grants from the AHRC (3), the British Academy (1) and the European Commission (1).
Clodagh’s contribution to Interdisciplinary Italy 1900-2020: Interart/Intermedia is focused on steering the project’s intellectual direction, providing analysis of the 1980-2020 period, and helping to develop theories of interdisciplinary practice.
She welcomes postgraduate and post-doctoral applications, and provides guidance on funding for promising applicants.
