Academic biography

Maria Loftus is an Assistant Professor in French in the School of Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies. She holds a primary degree in Irish and French with higher degrees in French Literature and Language, Discourse and Representations, Applied Linguistics and a PhD in Sub-Saharan Documentary Cinema from French and Irish universities. Having published in international journals in the areas of protest and documentary cinema and visual representations of colonisation, she has also explored the Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) field of students as creators of video content within a SLA context. 

More recently, her published work is centred at the nexus of creative outputs and intercultural dialogue.