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Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
Sorcha Ní Fhlainn is an Irish academic who specializes in vampire fiction, horror film, and gothic studies. She is Reader in Film Studies and Co-Director of the Popular Screen Cultures Network at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was chair of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies from 2021 until 2022. Among her works are ''The Worlds of Back to the Future'' (2010) and ''Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture'' (2019), the latter for which she won the 2020 Lord Ruthven Award in Non-Fiction. Biography She obtained her BA in Arts (History and Politics) and MA in American Studies from University College Dublin, before obtaining her MA in Higher Education at Manchester Metropolitan University and PhD in English at Trinity College Dublin; her doctoral dissertation was ''I am the Dark Mirror; the vampire of my own heart": the postmodern vampire in fiction, film and culture 1975-2008'' (2009). She later joined Manchester Metropolitan Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ireland
Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelanda sovereign state covering five-sixths of the island) and Northern Ireland (part of the United Kingdomcovering the remaining sixth). It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland), North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the List of islands of the British Isles, second-largest island of the British Isles, the List of European islands by area, third-largest in Europe, and the List of islands by area, twentieth-largest in the world. As of 2022, the Irish population analysis, population of the entire island is just over 7 million, with 5.1 million in the Republic of Ireland and 1.9 million in Northern Ireland, ranking it the List of European islands by population, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
