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Meet the TeaM
The research team at VICTEUR combines UCD’s strengths in cultural criticism and data science, traditional humanities and new AI approaches, as well as established and early-stage researchers.
The project builds upon research undertaken at the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics, which provides a coherent research ecosystem for digital humanities and cultural analytics, supports ongoing collaboration, serves as a focal point and host for international networks, and acts as an incubator for new projects in this rapidly developing field.
Gerardine Meaney (PI)
Prof. Gerardine Meaney is Principal Investigator on VICTEUR, Professor of Cultural Theory in UCD School of English, Drama and Film, and Director of UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics.
Derek Greene (Co-PI)
Dr. Derek Greene is Associate Professor at the UCD School of Computer Science, Co-Investigator on the VICTEUR project, and a Funded Investigator at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics. His research focuses on machine learning, network analysis, natural language processing, and cultural analytics.
Karen Wade
Dr. Karen Wade is an Assistant Professor in the School of English, Drama and Film. Her current research interests include 19th-century and Romantic-era fiction, social network analysis, gender, autobiography and life-writing, correspondence, linguistic landscape, & book history.
Jenny Knell
Dr. Jenny Knell is Research Development Officer at the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics and Project Manager of VICTEUR. She specialises in the development and implementation of large-scale collaborative EU research projects.
Katie Mishler
Dr. Katie Mishler is IRC Enterprise Partnership Postdoctoral Fellow. She was recently awarded funding Mapping Gothic Dublin: Historical and Literary Hauntings 1820-1900.
Claire Brophy
Dr. Claire Brophy is ERC Fellow on the VICTEUR project. Research interests include gender and sexuality, 20th-century and 21st-century women's writing, and cultural theory.
Meghann Gaffney
Meghann Gaffney's current research is funded by SFI and focuses on combining digital methods with literary and historical analysis to examine cultural representations and experiences of single women in the Irish Free State. Her broader research interests include gender, women, marriage and the family in twentieth century Ireland.
Suchana Datta
Dr. Suchana Datta is a Postdoctoral Researcher on the VICTEUR project and was previously a PhD student at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics. Her research activities span information retrieval, machine learning, and cultural analytics.
Iulia Molnar
Iulia Molnar is an ERC-funded postgraduate research student at UCD’s School of English, Drama and Film. Her research interests tend to focus on intersectionality, women’s writing, postcolonial and migration studies.
Caylum O’Neill
Caylum O’Neill is a final year PhD candidate working as part of the VICTEUR project team. Caylum’s research is concerned with depictions of LGBTQ migrants to Berlin and London in contemporary German and English literature and television.
Maria Butler
Dr. Maria Butler is a postdoctoral researcher on the Gender, Culture and Data project. Her research interests include gender, commercial fiction, social justice novels, applied literature, and cultural analytics.
Shuhao Guan
Shuhao Guan is a third year PhD candidate on the VICTEUR project and associated with Insight Centre for Data Analytics. His research focuses on using machine learning and natural language processing techniques to process and digitsed large-scale historical corpora.
Loic Wright
Dr. Loic Wright is a Research Assistant on the VICTEUR project. His research interests include masculinities, sexualities, and post-colonial studies in English and Irish literature.
Affiliated Members
Lauren Cassidy
Dr. Lauren Cassidy is a former PhD student in UCD School of English, Drama and Film, and a research assistant on VICTEUR. Her research interests include contemporary Irish fiction, gender and sexuality studies, and cultural analytics.
Maria Mulvany
Dr. Maria Mulvany is an Assistant Professor in the School of English, Drama and Film. Her research interests include gender and sexuality studies, contemporary Irish fiction, the historical novel, crime fiction, psychosocial studies and digital humanities.
Briony Wickes
Dr. Briony Wickes was previously a European Research Council Research Fellow on VICTEUR. She is now a Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Sustainability at Royal Holloway, University of London.
