Professor Anna Hickey-Moody
Anna Hickey-Moody is Professor of Intersectional Humanities and Director of the Maynooth University Arts and Humanities Research Institute. She is the author of 8 acclaimed academic books, the most recent of which is Faith Stories, published by Manchester University Press. She lives with her partner, his son and their greyhound in Thornbury, Melbourne and a collection of brilliant academics in a share house in Kildare, Ireland.
Between 2013 and 2016 Anna was the Director of the Centre for Arts and Learning at Goldsmiths College, London and Head of the PhD in Arts and Learning. She founded the Disability Research Centre during this time and published her first essay on the cultural value of carbon in 2015.
Anna is known for her theoretical and empirical work and her methodological expertise with arts practice, or practice research, ethnography and methodological invention.
Her books include ”Imagining University Education: Making Educational Futures’ (Routledge, 2016), Youth, Arts and Education’ (Routledge, 2013), ‘Unimaginable Bodies’ (Sense Publishers, 2009) and ‘Masculinity Beyond the Metropolis’ (Palgrave, 2006).
Showing leadership in the fields across which she works, Anna has also edited a number of collected works: books and journal editions. Recently, she published a themed edition of the journal ‘Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies’ 2016 38(1) and an anthology on art practice with Rowman and Littlefield (‘Arts, Pedagogy & Cultural Resistance’, 2015).
Anna has also published collections on disability and media, (‘Disability Matters’, Routledge, 2011) and Deleuze and social politics (‘Deleuzian Encounters’, Palgrave, 2006). Anna teaches and supervises in the areas of disability, youth culture, masculinity, arts practice as method and the cultural politics of schooling and aesthetics.