Nuala Finnegan is a professor in Spanish Studies at University College Cork. Her research focuses on gender based violence in the Mexican border. Finnegan has been the Dean of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies in University College Cork since 2023. She currently leads a Higher Education Authority North South project in collaboration with Ulster University..[1][2]

Early life and education

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She holds a PhD from Glasgow University.[3]

Leadership

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Nuala Finnegan is the chair of the Equality Committee at University College Cork (UCC).[4] In 2019, Finnegan thanked UCC authorities for removing the name of American geneticist and Nobel Prize winner Dr James Dewey Watson from one of its buildings after he suggested racist comments on a recent documentary[5][6]

Selected publications

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(2018), Cultural Representations of Feminicidio on the US-Mexico Border. Finnegan, Nuala. UK: Routledge.[7]

(2015), Rethinking Juan Rulfo's Creative World: Prose, Photography, Film. Brennan, Dylan; Finnegan, Nuala (Ed.). Oxford: Legenda.[8]

Awards

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Finnegan received an Ohtli award by the Mexican Government in 2011[9].

References

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  1. ^ "North-South Research Programme". Higher Education Authority. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
  2. ^ "University of Ulster | Critical Epistemologies across Borders". womenconstitutionalfuturesireland.com. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
  3. ^ "University College Cork Nuala Finnegan Research Profile".
  4. ^ "Equality Committee". University College Cork. Retrieved 2024-02-07.
  5. ^ Charlton, Lauretta (5 January 2019). "White Supremacy, Genetics and Dr. James Watson". The New York Times.
  6. ^ "UCC staff welcome removal of Watson's name from building". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2024-02-07.
  7. ^ "Cultural Representations of Feminicidio at the US-Mexico Border". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
  8. ^ "Rethinking Juan Rulfo's Creative World: Prose, Photography, Film". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
  9. ^ "Nuala Finnegan | Royal Irish Academy". www.ria.ie. 2022-08-23. Retrieved 2024-02-07.