Mary Healy is a PhD Research Scholar (2008-10), Government of Ireland Scholar [Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences] (2010-11) and Fulbright Scholar (2010-11) at the Department of History, University of Limerick (UL), Ireland. Her field of research is French art history, 1860-1968, and she specialises in Orientalism, visual culture, gender studies, modernity and postcolonial theory. Healy is also a practicing artist working through traditional printmaking, painting and photography.
In June 2010 Healy won the Irish Fulbright Award for Research in the Humanities after which she successfully completed one year of her research in the Department of the History of Art, Yale University. Her PhD is under the supervision of Dr. Catherine Lawless, Department of History, UL, and the co-supervision of Professor Carol Armstrong, Department of the History of Art, Yale University.
'The only power I have is the power of ideas.' - Mary Robinson