EMPLOYMENT

• 2009-present: Lecturer, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin
• 2008-2009 : Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow, Department of History, St Patrick’s College, Dublin City University.
• 2007-2008: Assistant Lecturer, School of History and Archives, UCD.
• 2004-2009: Occassional Lecturer and Teaching Assistant, Dept of History and Centre for European Studies, Trinity College Dublin.
• 2005-2008: Tutor, Dept of History, St Patrick’s College Drumcondra, Dublin 9.
• 2005-2008: Course Tutor and Lecturer, Adult Education Centre, UCD.
• 2005-2007: Modular Co-ordinator, School of History and Archives, UCD.
• 2003-2007: Senior Tutor, School of History and Archives, UCD.

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

• Biography of Marie-Louise O’Murphy, petite maîtresse of Louis XV. In progress.
• ‘Louisa O’Murphy. Louis XV’s Irish Mistress’ in History Ireland, Jan/Feb 2006.
• ‘Matrimony and the Mistress: Attitudes to Marriage at the court of Louis XIV, in Victims or Viragos: Studies on Women in Medieval and Early Modern Europe 4. Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2005.
• ‘Early Modern Sexuality’, ‘Sexual Politics’, ‘Seduction’, ‘The Pill’, ‘Mistress’ and other articles in Sexuality: The Essential Glossary edited by Jo Eadie, Arnold and Oxford University Press, London, 2004.
• ‘The Menace of the Feminine in French Revolutionary Culture’ in UCD History Review, XII, 2001.

SELECT CONFERENCES

• ‘Vice and Visibility: the imagery of the royal mistress at the court of Louis XIV’, Society for the Study of French History, Trinity College Dublin, June 2009.
• ‘Illusions of Influence: the evolution of the Maîtresse Royale’, French Historical Studies, St Louis, Missouri, March 2009.
• ‘Marie-Louise O’Murphy and the Court of Louis XV’, Ireland and the Iberian Atlantic, Mobility, involvement and cross-cultural exchange 1580-1823, Seville, 30 Oct – 1 Nov 2008.
• ‘Assessing Informal Power: The Figure of the Maîtresse Royale at the Court of Louis XIV, 1660-1715’, Power and Perspective, Society for Seventeenth Century Studies, 11-13 Sept 2008.