Her Cultural History of the Irish Novel, 1790-1829 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) won the Donald J. Murphy Prize, awarded by the American Conference for Irish Studies. She has been visiting Associate Professor of Irish Studies at Boston College, O’Brien Professor at Concordia University in Montreal, Parnell Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge and Burns Professor at Boston College.

With Marjorie Howes (Boston College), she was General Editor of Irish Literature in Transition, 1700-2020 (Cambridge University Press, 2020); as well as editor for Volume 2 of the series, Irish Literature in Transition, 1780-1830. Her new book on Irish Romanticism is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

She received her MA, PhD and Post-Doctoral degrees from said university. She was former Vice-President and Associate Director at USP International Cooperation Office (2015-2021), Coordinator of the W.B.Yeats Chair of Irish Studies (since 2009) and co-founder and former president of Irish Studies Associations – SILAS (2003/ 2006-2009); ABEI (1988/ 2009-2018). She is co-founder of the Alliance of Chairs of Irish Studies in Latin America and IASIL vice-chairperson for Latin America and the Caribbean (former “Other Countries”). Author of Mirrors and Holographic Labyrinths. The Process of an Aesthetic Synthesis in the Novels of John Banville (NY, Oxford: International Scholars Publications, 1999), Narrativas de la diáspora irlandesa bajo la Cruz del Sur (Buenos Aires: Corregidor, 2010-11) y O Trauma Cultural: Ressonâncias literárias irlandesas (SP: Editora FFLCH, 2020) among numerous chapters and articles on Irish contemporary literature, Irish in South America, (post/de)coloniality, cultural trauma, memory and diaspora studies.

Editor and co-curator of Roger Casement in Brazil (2010) with exhibitions in Brazil and abroad; co-editor of ABEI Journal (since 1999) and various books: Lectures (since 2010), the Portuguese translation of The Amazon Journal of Roger Casement (2016), Secrets from Putumayo by Aurélio Michiles (2021), and Transatlantic Crises of Democracies (2022) among others. Her FAPESP postdoctoral Fellowships were at University of London-Trinity College Dublin (2004) and Jawaharlal Nehru University, India (2013) where she was visiting Professor, as well as at Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Argentina (1997, 2006, 2015). In 2024, she was Research Fellow at the Trinity Long Room Hub (TCD/ FAPESP) and curated the exhibition “Entanglement” by the Irish artist Rita Duffy at Centro Universitário Maria Antonia/USP. She coordinates academic exchanges, national and international research networks and the research group “Literary Narratives and Identities in diaspora spaces” (since 1998).

Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, MRIA, FBA, FTCD, FRHistS was a driving force behind the 1641 Depositions Project and the development of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute. She chaired the Irish Research Council (2015-21). In 2023 received an Advanced ERC for VOICES, a project on the lived experiences of women in early modern Ireland. 

She is the author or editor of numerous articles and 11 books. Her latest Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism and the Early Modern World (Oxford, 2023) is based on the 2021 Ford Lectures in Oxford. In 2023 she was awarded the Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal in the Humanities.

A writer, academic and filmmaker, Nic Dhiarmada was educated in Trinity College, Dublin and UCD and is a native of Wexford. She lectured at UCD before working in television for RTÉ and TG4 before returning to academia at UL in 2006. She has been a Distinguished Visiting International Scholar at the University of Missouri and held a Senior Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame before joining the fulltime faculty as a tenured endowed professor.

Nic Dhiarmada has written numerous screenplays and has produced, written and directed award winning documentaries including the multi-award winning documentary series 1916 narrated by Liam Neeson and screened worldwide including broadcasts on RTÉ, PBS and BBC.

Among the awards were the American Public Television Award for Excellence and the Best Documentary Series, Irish Film and Television Academy Awards 2016. Her book 1916- The Irish Rebellion won the Foreward Prize for History. She is the writer and producer of the 4-part series and documentary feature film entitled From that Small Island- The Story of the Irish (2025) narrated by Colin Farrell.

Director of the Centre for Mexican Studies (1999-2023), she has published widely in the areas of contemporary Mexican literary and visual cultural studies with a particular focus on gender. Much work has focused on cultural responses to violence and includes a monograph on femicide in Ciudad Juarez (Cultural Representations of Feminicidio on the U.S.-Mexico Border) with Routledge, articles, book chapters, exhibitions, community engagement and student/staff cultural activism. Interested in multi-disciplinary collaboration, she has extensive experience of exhibition curation and co-ordination including Entre Mundos/Between Worlds: Images of Life between Mexico and Ireland in 2019-2023, and OUTPOSTS: global borders and national boundaries at The Glucksman, in 2017-2018. 

Involved in exploring the generative interconnections between Ireland and Latin America, she recently led a research team in UCC and Ulster University on a project called Critical Epistemologies Across Borders, funded by the North-South Research Programme (NSRP) which is integrating Latin American art practice and feminist methodologies to forge conversations about women, identity and new constitutional futures on the island of Ireland. She is currently working on a book on ethics, politics and child-centred art practice at the Mexico-US border and her book, Day of the Dead and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Mexico, UK and Ireland, co-authored with Jane Lavery (Palgrave 2025), examines the cultural, commercial and collective reconfigurations of Mexican commemorative mourning practices including the Day of the Dead, during and since the pandemic.