Emilie Pine is Professor of Modern Drama at the School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin (UCD), where she has been a faculty member since 2008. She is a leading scholar in the interdisciplinary fields of theatre, memory, trauma, and cultural studies, with a particular focus on contemporary Irish culture and the ethics of witnessing institutional abuse. She is Principal Investigator of the major IRC-funded project Industrial Memories , which re-examines the 2009 Ryan Report through digital humanities methods. Pine is also Editor of the Irish University Review and founding Director of the Irish Memory Studies Research Network. BA (Mod), Trinity College Dublin PhD, Trinity College Dublin Her research centers on the intersections of memory, testimony, and performance, particularly in the context of Ireland’s institutional past. She investigates how trauma is remembered, represented, and re-performed in theatre and digital media. Her work combines literary scholarship with data analytics to develop new methodologies for reading large-scale state reports. She has published extensively on modern drama, memory cultures, and the politics of commemoration, with a strong emphasis on ethical witnessing and social justice. Her recent publications reflect a sustained engagement with digital witnessing, textual analysis of state reports, and site-specific performance. These works explore themes such as digital audio walks, machine learning applications in humanities research, and the affective dimensions of spectatorship. Collectively, her articles demonstrate a methodological innovation at the intersection of literary studies, digital humanities, and human rights advocacy. Irish Book of the Year Award (2018) for Notes to Self Kate O’Brien First Novel Award (2023) for Ruth & Pen Fulbright Irish Scholar (2010) Emilie Pine supervises research in modern drama and memory studies and has coordinated numerous modules including Contemporary British Theatre , Memory and Testimony , and Theatres of War . She has received competitive research grants such as the IRC New Horizons grant for Industrial Memories and funding for digital humanities projects involving the British Library Labs corpus. She is actively involved in academic service as a committee member of the Royal Irish Academy’s Languages and Literatures Committee, the Memory Studies Association Advisory Board, and the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures. She also leads the Memory Cloud Project and co-founded initiatives to commemorate Irish Magdalene history. She is a founding member of the Irish Memory Studies Research Network and has collaborated with theatre companies such as ANU Productions and Dead Centre Theatre Company, contributing to public-facing performances that engage with historical trauma and personal narrative.
