Bridget Shaffrey
Durham University, UK
ESR 4
Helen Wilson (supervisor), Jonathan Darling (co-supervisor), Thomas Wimark (co-supervisor)
Email: Bridget.S.Shaffrey@durham.ac.uk
Twitter: Bshaffrey
Bridget Shaffrey’s research at Durham University in the Department of Geography focuses upon issues of trauma, identity-formation, division, and solidarity within rural settings in Northern England. She earned her undergraduate degree from Bucknell University (2017) where her thesis analyzed representations of postcolonial trauma in Irish cultural artefacts. After graduating from Bucknell, she obtained her MPhil in Film and Screen Studies from the University of Cambridge (2018). There, she studied and wrote about cultural trauma, memory, and violence in world cinema. She most recently completed her M.S.Ed at the University of Pennsylvania (2020). Throughout this two-year graduate and professional programme, she conducted an action-research study focused on the implementation of trauma-informed pedagogical practices. Her work has been published in The Humanities Review, Peephole, and The Review of Irish Studies.
Publications:
“We’ll Make Our Own Rules’ Postcolonial Cinematic Reclamations of Irish Revolutionary History,” Review of Irish Studies in Europe (2020).
“May The Curse of Christ Light Upon You, You Bitch”: Trauma and Mother Ireland in Neil Jordan’s The Butcher Boy,” Peephole Journal (2019).
“Chick Strand’s Soft Fiction: An Observation of Experience,” The Humanities Review (2017).