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Mr Ronan McKinney

Post:Library Assistant (Library)
Other posts:Associate Tutor (Media and Film, English)
Location:Library
Email:R.P.Mckinney@sussex.ac.uk
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Biography

2007-2012: PhD English Literature, Film & Visual Culture, University of Sussex (Part-time).

Thesis: ‘Picturing 9/11’, supervised by Professor Vicky Lebeau and Professor Peter Boxall.

1996-2001: MA Art History (Twentieth Century), Goldsmiths University of London.

1996-1999: BA (Hons.) Art History & Fine Art, Goldsmiths University of London.

  • Spectacle, fantasy and terror in contemporary visual culture.
  • Ethics and representation, trauma and mourning in post-Holocaust visual culture.
  • The aesthetics of the sublime from the Enlightenment to postmodernity.
  • Psychoanalysis and the image; Freud, Lacan, Winnicott.
  • Painting ‘after’ photography.

 

Reading Genre; Horror (2011) Course Tutor

Texts in Time 1 & 2 (2010-11) Course Workshop Tutor

Film Theory (2010) Course Tutor

Issues in Film Studies 1A (2008) Course Tutor