Fiona Bateman

Dr. Fiona Bateman is Director of the MA in Public Advocacy & Activism at NUI Galway, based in the Huston School of Film and Digital Media at NUI Galway. She also teaches in the discipline of English. She wrote her PhD thesis on ‘The Spiritual Empire: Irish Catholic Missionary Discourse in the Twentieth Century’ (NUI Galway, 2003), investigating Irish Foreign Missions in the twentieth century and the involvement of Irish missionaries in the Nigeria-Biafra War. She recently published ‘Clarke Studios and the Irish Foreign Missions: Windows with “A very ‘Irish’ Look” in Africa’, in Harry Clarke and Artistic Visions of the New Irish State, Angela Griffith, Marguerite Helmers & Roisin Kennedy (eds), Irish Academic Press, 2018.