Draft:Nuala Finnegan

Nuala Finnegan is a professor in Spanish Studies at University College Cork. Her research focuses on gender based violence in the Mexican border. Finnegan has been the Dean of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies in University College Cork since 2023. She currently leads a Higher Education Authority North South project in collaboration with Ulster University..

Early life and education
She holds a PhD from Glasgow University.

Leadership
Nuala Finnegan is the chair of the Equality Committee at University College Cork (UCC). In 2019, Finnegan thanked UCC authorities for removing the name of American geneticist and Nobel Prize winner Dr James Dewey Watson from one of its buildings after he suggested racist comments on a recent documentary

Selected publications
(2018), Cultural Representations of Feminicidio on the US-Mexico Border. Finnegan, Nuala. UK: Routledge.

(2015), Rethinking Juan Rulfo's Creative World: Prose, Photography, Film. Brennan, Dylan; Finnegan, Nuala (Ed.). Oxford: Legenda.

Awards
Finnegan received an Ohtli award by the Mexican Government in 2011.