Intellect

Mary O’Neill is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Context and Higher Education Academy Teaching Fellow at the University of Lincoln. Her doctoral research was on the relationship between ephemeral practices in contemporary art and the behaviours associated with bereavement. Her current research interests span a variety of disciplines and fields and include loss, failure, boredom, rejection and
sorrow (see ‘Art and Money: Experience Destruction Exposure’ in Money and Culture, Peter Lang 2007). She is interested in the methodology of communicating these subjects and the intersection between academic writing and creative narrative. She was organizer of the symposium Telling Stories: Theory and Narrative, Loughborough University, 2007. Her interest in challenging and difficult material has also led to an examination of ethics and contemporary art.