My teaching covers medieval art and architecture. I teach modules on Insular art, early medieval art in Europe and art and architecture in late medieval Ireland. Past and present post-graduate students have worked on topics including‘Archaic’ Architectural Sculpture in 11th-13th Century Tuscany, late medieval Irish window tracery and Passion symbolism in Irish art. I welcome discussion with suitably qualified prospective students with relevant research interests.

I am an art and architectural historian with a particular interest in medieval Ireland. My research has developed from doctoral studies in Romanesque architecture and sculpture to focus on the later medieval period, in particular the social context of medieval art and architecture. I am also interested in the extended biographies of medieval buildings - how the architecture of the Middle Ages came to be perceived and managed after the mid-sixteenth century. I was editor and principal author volume 1 of the RIA Art and Architecture of Ireland series, published by Yale University Press in November, 2014. I am currently Principal Investigator on the IRC-funded Monastic Ireland, Landscape and Settlement Project and academic partner on the Bank of America Merrill Lynch-TCD Gospel Books Project.