Sandra Costello is a PhD candidate and Irish Research Council Scholar in Film & Screen Media at University College Cork under the supervision of Dr Barry Monahan. She recently submitted her PhD dissertation, titled “Cinema, Containment and Countervisuality: Irish Gendered Institutionalisation Framed by an Institutional Lens”. Prior to this, she graduated with a BA (International) in English and Italian at the University of Galway and went on to complete a Professional Diploma of Education at UCC. She also undertook a Master’s in Film Studies at UCC where she completed a thesis titled “Ireland Interrupted: Repressive and Ideological Institutionalisation in Contemporary Irish Cinema”. Her research interests include Irish Cinema, representations of institutions, gender, cultural memory and identity, sociology, cinematic soundscapes and visual studies.
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