Centre for Media Studies NUI Maynooth Tel: +353 (0)1 708 6980 Fax: +353 (0)1 708 6422 Email: stephanie.rains@nuim.ie Office Hours (Semester 1 2010-11) Mondays 10.30-11.30 Thursdays 1.30-2.30 or by appointment via stephanie.rains@nuim.ie

I am Subject Leader in the Centre for Media Studies.  I co-ordinate and teach on a number of modules on the BA in Media Studies, as well as co-ordinating the MA in Radio and TV Production.

My research interests include Irish and Irish-American popular culture, including television, film and popular cultural practices such as tourism and shopping.  My doctoral thesis, completed at Dublin City University in 2003, examined the ways in which late-20thC Irish-American identity was created through the consumption of Irish-themed popular culture.  My book on this subject, entitled The Irish American in Popular Culture, 1945-2000, was published by Irish Academic Press in 2007.

I continue to have research interests in 20thC Irish and Irish-American material, but my most recent research has focused upon 19thC Irish popular culture, with a particular emphasis on the development of consumerism and shopping in Dublin.  My book on this topic, Commodity Culture and Social Class in Dublin 1850-1916, will be published by Irish Academic Press in autumn 2010.