Stephen Boyd
Publications
Stephen has been published on Irish film in articles such as ‘Middle Class and Proud of it: Irish Cinema during the Celtic Tiger’ in Intellects World Film Locations and ‘The ‘Aul Divil: The Appropriation of Irishness in Daredevil’. His most recent publications are ‘Surfing and Popular Culture in Ireland’ in Ireland and Popular Culture and ‘No Boarders: Postnational Identity and the Surfing Subculture in Ireland’ in the book Sport and National Identities: Globalisation and Conflict.
| Year | |
|---|---|
| ‘The Aul Divl: On the Representation of Irishness in Daredevil’ in Screening Irish America: Representing Irish-America in Film and Television, Ed. by Ruth Barton | Dublin, Irish Academic Press: 2009 |
| ‘Middle Class and Proud of It: Representations of Dublin during the Celtic Tiger’, in World Film Locations: Dublin, ed. by Jez Connolly (London and Chicago | Intellect Publishing: 2011 |
| ‘Goldfish Memory: Scene Analysis’, in World Film Locations: Dublin, ed. by Jez Connolly | London and Chicago, Intellect Publishing: 2011 |
| ‘Surfing a Postnationalist Wave: The Role of Surfing in Irish Popular Culture’ in Ireland and Popular Culture, ed. by Sylvie Mikowski | London, Berlin, New York, Peter Lang Publishing: 2014 |
| ‘No Boarders: Postnational Identity and the Surfing Subculture in Ireland’ in the book ‘Sport and National Identities: Globalisation and Conflict’ ed.by Paddy Dolan and John Connolly | Oxford, Routledge, 2017 |
Research
Stephen is researching for his PhD at Trinity College Dublin. This study is an analysis of Irish surf film and the wider socio – economic role of surf culture and media in Ireland.
| Year | |
|---|---|
| ‘No Boarders: On National Identity and the Surfing Subculture in Ireland’ in Sport and National Identities: Globalization and Conflict, ed. by Paddy Dolan | Routledge, Upcoming 2016 |
Lectures/Conferences
| Year | |
|---|---|
| ‘The Emergence of the Irish Surf Film’ at the Irish Postgraduate Research Seminar. Trinity College Dublin | 2015 |
| ‘Postnational Identity and the Surf Film’ at Transatlantic Connections Conference | 2015 |
| ‘Surf Girls and the Roxy Shift: On the Representation of Women in Global Surf Media and Culture’ at Consoling Passions 2015: An international conference for feminist media studies | 2015 |
| ‘No Boarders: National Identity and the Surfing Subculture in Ireland’ at EASS 2015 (European Association for Sociology and Sport). | 2015 |
| ‘Into the Sea: A Feminist Surf Film?’ at the European Cinema and Television Research Forum, NUI Galway | 2015 |
| ‘Bikini models or Pro Surfers? The Male Gaze in Surf Culture’ at Transatlantic Connections Conference | 2016 |
Awards + Achievements
Winner: Alan McSherry Award for best academic presentation on Surf culture at the Transatlantic Connections Conference, Bundoran in January 2016.
Stephen has been a regular contributor on film culture and a film reviewer for the RTE Radio 1 Arts show ‘Arena’ since 2011, and was previously a regular guest on ‘Viewfinder’, film based radio show on Dublin City FM.