Emily Mark is Associate Professor at the School of Art History and Cultural Policy at UCD since 2008, over the past two decades in Ireland Emily's work in Irish art and visual culture, and memory studies/commemoration, has established her reputation as a leading scholar of Irish Studies with a global profile. Her scholarship has been produced as academic monographs, articles, essays, edited books, and reports – but also exhibitions, major online research resources, 100+ public talks and conference papers over the past decade, and many media appearances on TV, radio and print. This is complemented by a wide-ranging engagement and national profile within Irish arts, culture, and heritage, including 9 years as one of the Director of the Irish Museums Associations; representing Art History on the Historical Studies Committee of the Royal Irish Academy, and as the most recent Chair of the national grant-making body Arts & Disability Ireland. She pursued an MLitt in the History of Art from Trinity, before completing her PhD at UCD. Emily obtained her undergraduate degree in Art History from USC and her MA in Arts Administration from Indiana University.