Dr. Tom Chaffin
Dr. Tom Chaffin is Research Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. He will be based at University College Cork’s History Department where he will lecture on and research Frederick Douglass’s 1845-46 four-month tour of Ireland.
Visiting Period: Jan – Jun 2012
Mr. Michael Murphy
Mr. Michael Murphy is a Professor of filmmaking in the School of Media Arts at the University of Montana. He will be based at University College Cork where he will teach workshops in media based performance and directing and will carry out research in the area of Liminality, the Void, and Media: Through the Looking Glass with “Krapp’s Last Tape
Visiting Period: Jan – Jun 2012
Dr. Kevin N. Cawley
Dr Kevin N. Cawley joins the UCC School of Asian Studies as a Visiting Professor from September 2011 to August 2012. This post is funded by the Academy of Korean Studies. He will lead the Irish Institute of Korean Studies and work with the staff members of the School of Asian Studies and the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Science to promote Korean Studies in Ireland in general and in UCC in particular.
Dr Cawley is originally from Co. Armagh in Ireland and completed his undergraduate degree at Trinity College Dublin in French and Irish. He has lived in Korea for over six years, and obtained a Masters and PhD in Korean Studies from the School of East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield. He has been the recipient of several scholarships, such as the Korea Foundation Fellowship, the British Association for Korean Studies (BAKS) bursary, and recently returned to Ireland having completed a research fellowship at the Kyujanggak, Institute for Korean Studies at Seoul National University - South Korea's premier university.
He hopes to develop and expand Korean Studies in Ireland, and to encourage students taking Asian Studies programs to discover the rich history and culture of Korea, which shares more than a few similarities with Ireland. He hopes that within a few years the Irish Institute of Korean Studies will be able to offer a degree in Korean Studies. The institute has already begun to offer Korean language classes where students start by learning the easy-to-master Korean script, Hangul.
His research interests include the history of ideas in Korea, both philosophical and religious traditions, using contemporary critical theory. He is also interested in acculturation between traditions, such as Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism, and in particular, between Christianity and Neo-Confucianism in the late 18th /early 19th century.
Visiting Period: Sept 2011 – August 2012
