Eavan O Dochartaigh

Dr Eavan O’Dochartaigh is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow based at Humlab (Digital Humanities Centre) and Arcum (Arctic Research Centre) in Umeå University. Her current project gathers and maps nineteenth-century visual representations of indigenous people in the western Arctic. She is a recent graduate (2018) of the Department of English at National University of Ireland, Galway, where her PhD thesis examined the visual culture created by the exploration of the Northwest Passage in the 1850s, and is a graduate of the MPhil in Polar Studies at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge (2005). Additionally, she has over ten years of experience as a consultant archaeologist and illustrator, working in Ireland, the UK, and Iceland.