Prof. Aileen Blaney is Associate Professor – Film Studies at FLAME University. She completed her PhD from Trinity College, Dublin in the field of Film Studies. She has completed M.Phil in Theatre and Film Studies from Trinity College Dublin and Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature and French Studies from National University of Ireland, Galway.
Prof. Aileen Blaney is a writer and an editor. Her scholarship has explored Irish cinema and, more recently, examines photography in India and the photo-based image online. Her writing has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Photography and Culture, Philosophy of Photography, History & Memory, European Journal of Cultural Studies, European Journal of Women’s Studies, Film and Image Studies and on popular news sites such as The Wire, The Business Post and Huffington Post. She is the co-editor of Photography in India: from Archives to Contemporary Practice (Bloomsbury/2019; Routledge/2020).
Prior to joining Flame, she was faculty at School of New Humanities and Design, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore for six years. She has also taught Film Studies at Dublin Institute of Technology and Trinity College, Dublin. In addition, she has done stints as a Film Programmer at a Film Festival at Seoul and as a Curatorial Assistant at India Foundation for the Arts (IFA), Bangalore.