Prof. Mark Burnett (English) has been awarded a Marie Curie/EU Postdoctoral Fellowship grant.
The project, ‘Shakespeare and the Irish Actor’, brings experienced researcher Dr Emer McHugh (NUI Galway) to work with Mark for two years, starting next academic year, and is for Euros 220,000.
‘Shakespeare and the Irish Actor’ brings together and evaluates the contributions and achievements of Irish actors over hundreds of years of Shakespearean performance and interpretation on screen and stage in Ireland, North America, and Europe, and will be accompanied by two training placements and an innovative programme of communication activities.