Niamh Ann Kelly lectures on the history of art and contemporary visual culture at the Dublin School of Creative Arts, Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), Ireland. She is Programme Chair of the BA Contemporary Visual Culture programme at DIT and a DIT member of the Irish Humanities Alliance. Her research interests are contemporary art, commemorative visual cultures of art, journalism, museum and heritage practice with a focus on visual, material and spatial memorialization of grievous histories. She has contributed to publications including Art and Architecture of Ireland, Volume V (The Twentieth Century) (2014), Art and Architecture of Ireland, Volume III (Sculpture and Sculptures) (2014), Memory Ireland Volume III: Cruxes in Irish Cultural Memory - The Famine and the Troubles (2014), Art and Visibility in Migratory Culture: Conflict, Resistance, and Agency (2011), Ireland's Great Hunger, Volume 2 (2010), Representation Matters: (Re) Articulating Collective Identities in a Postcolonial World (2010), Irish Museum of Modern Art - "What is_Installation Art?" (2010), and Hugh Lane: Founder of a Gallery of Modern Art for Ireland (2008). Her book Imaging the Great Irish Famine: Representing Dispossession in Visual Culture, I.B. Tauris, is due for publication in 2017.
