Dr Michael Connerty
Research projects
My monograph The Comic Strip Art of Jack B. Yeats was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2021. I recently contributed a chapter titled “Beguiling Shenanigans: Ireland and Hollywood Animation 1947-59” in Paul Fagan, Deiter Fuchs and Tamara Radak eds., Stage Irish: Performance, Identity and Cultural Circulation (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier: Irish Studies in Europe Vol. 10) and “Mechanical Animals, Flying Men and Educated Monkeys: Technology and Modernity in the Comic Strips of Jack B. Yeats” in Paul Fagan, John Greaney and Tamara Radak eds., Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Papers
“What the Editor Says”: Engaging the British Comics Readership in the 1890s (International Graphic Novels and Comics Conference, Cambridge, June 2021)
“Funniosities”: Hollywood Slapstick Comedy and early British Comics (Transmedia Practices Symposium, Vienna, January 2020)
Drawing Comics: Theorizing Cinema (Comics Forum, Leeds, November 2019)
“The millions ov people wot redes Comic Cuts”: Readerships and Graphic Style in Early British Comics (International Graphic Novels and Comics Conference, Manchester, June 2019)
Cheap Laughs: The Mass Appeal of British Comics in the 1890s (The 2nd International Amsterdam Comics Conference, Amsterdam, November 2018)
Happy Ike, The Pink Kid, and the American Presence in early British Comics (Comic Arts Conference, San Diego, July 2018)
Lectures/Conferences
| Year | |
|---|---|
| Paper given at Transitions 6 Birkbeck, University of London. “Funny Animals: The Circus and Anthropomorphism in Early British Comics”. | 2015 |
| Paper given at Voyages: Sixth International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference/ Ninth International Bande Dessinée Society Conference, Paris. “Travelogues, Empire and the Early British Comic Strip”. | 2015 |
| Paper given at Victorian Modernities conference, University of Kent, Canterbury. “Educated apes, flying men + mechanical animals: Modernity + the British comic strip”. | 2015 |
| Latitudes: Irish Studies in an international context: CAIS/ACIS joint conference, 2014, University College Dublin. “Art History, the Comic Strip and Jack B. Yeats” | 2014 |
| Paper given at Readers, Purveyors, Creators, and Users: Studying Victorian Print Consumption Conference, at National University of Ireland, Galway. “‘We have nothing like that in Ireland, Mr. Punch”: Percy French’s The Jarvey and the Victorian Humour Magazine”‘ | 2014 |
Award + Achievements
| Year | |
|---|---|
| Certificate in Teaching and Learning from Athlone Institute of Technology | 2014 |