SALIS

Research Interests:

My research interests pertain to African Documentary cinema, Colonial Cinema, Transnational Cinema and Postcolonial Fallout in Visual Cultures. Since January 2012, I have started to research the use of student produced pocket films to improve Second Language Acquisition and have given workshops to language lecturers, teachers and students in India and Ireland.

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

• Dr. Maria Loftus. .

• Loftus, M., The aesthetics of slowness in Dumont's Hadewijch, Décélération, 19-OCT-12 - , N.U.I. Galway and ADEFFI
• Loftus, M., Repurposing the Smartphone in the Classroom: Practitioners' Perspectives on Integrating Student-Produced Digital Film in Language Learning, The Digital Learning Revolution in Ireland: Case Studies from the National Digital Learning Resource Service, 26-SEP-12 - , University of Limerick and National Digital Learning Resources Symposium
• Loftus, M., Developments in Francophone Cinema: Chad and Mahamet Saleh Haroun, Innovative Studies Programme in Teaching and Research in Interdisciplinary and Emerging Areas, 08-SEP-12 - , Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
• Loftus, M., Reframing the `Irish Colleen' in its colonial context: the enduring legacy of the comely maiden in Ireland and in India, Women in India and Ireland: Engendering the Historical Experiences, 07-SEP-12 - , Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
• Loftus, M., How to make a pocket film and improve your language skills, Daylong workshop delivered, 06-SEP-12 - , Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
• Loftus, M., A Screaming Man: a depiction of a humane revolt, Postcolonial Francophone Cinema and Contestation, 14-JUN-12 - , King's College London and Studies in French Cinema
• Loftus, M., Fowley, C. and Springer, O., Smart Technology in the language learning classroom: how to make a friend out of a foe, Digital Literacies, 31-MAY-12 - , N.U.I. Maynooth and EdTech
• Loftus, M., Jacques Audiard's The Prophet: transgression and invention of the prison film, Transgression(s), 22-OCT-11 - , Université de Provence and ADEFFI
• Loftus, M., Transatlantic Afro-collaboration: Ruy Guerra, Cinema Novo and documentary filmmaking in Mozambique, Afromodernisms 2, 01-JUL-11 - , University of Liverpool
• Loftus, M., , Les statues meurent aussi (1953): from travel documentary to poetic deconstruction of French imperialism, 19-JAN-11 - , School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
• Loftus, M., Too little, too late: French documentary cinema in 1950s West Africa, Ends of Empire, 17-JUN-10 - , Université Paris VIII and French Colonial Historical Society
• Loftus, M., Godard and formal experimentation in Mozambique, Cultural Exchange, 20-NOV-09 - , Trinity College Dublin and Royal Irish Academy
• Loftus, M., African docu-fiction in post-independence times, Journée des Doctorants de l'ADEFFI, 25-APR-09 - , Dublin City University
• Loftus, M., The fighting Irish in Miller's Crossing, Masculinité à Hollywood, de l'après guerre à nos jours, 07-DEC-06 - , Université Paris Diderot, Paris VII
• Loftus, M., Afrique sur Seine, Templating Immigrant Experience, Fortress Europe and it's Others: Cultural Representations in Film, Media and the Arts, 04-APR-05 - 06-APR-05, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London
• Loftus, M., Pollinisation in Irish Identity through Filmic Representation in Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom, Double Vision, 18-MAR-05 - 20-MAR-05, University College Dublin