Overview
Thomas Walsh initially graduated from the European School of Classical Animation at Ballyfermot Senior College, Dublin in 1994. He has worked professionally as a special effects artist for the Don Bluth Studio in Ireland and for the Walt Disney Studio in France, contributing to feature films such as The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), Hercules (1997) and Tarzan (1999).
Following this practical animation experience, he graduated with a BA (Hons) degree in Cultural Studies from the Norwich School of Art and Design in 2002, and with a PhD from Loughborough University School of Art and Design in 2009. He is currently researching and lecturing in animation at Arts University Bournemouth.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- PhD (Loughborough University School of Art and Design)
- BA (Hons) Cultural Studies (Norwich School of Art and Design)
Teaching Qualification
- Postgraduate Certificate in Education
Teaching
Research
Research Interests and Projects
Research interests include special effects dramaturgy and the use of animation in the adaptation of literary sources, with a particular focus on Irish animation culture.
Publications include:
- ‘Irish Animation and Radical Memory’ in Britta Olinder & Werner Huber (eds.) Place and Memory in the New Ireland Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2009.
- ‘The Secret of Kells: Ireland's European Identity in Feature Animation’. In Contemporary Irish Cinema, Werner Huber (ed.), Wilhelm Braumuller, Vienna, 2011.
- ‘Animating Joyce: Tim Booth’s Ulys’. In Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Suzanne Buchan (ed.), Sage Publications, London, March 2012.
- ‘Re-animating the Past: An Irish Animation History’. In Nordic Irish Studies, Carmen Zamorano Lena and Billy Gray (eds.) Dalarna University, Falun, January 2018.
- ‘Aardman’s Neo-Baroque’. In Aardman Animations: Beyond Stop-Motion, Annabelle Honess Roe (ed.) Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2020.
- ‘The Second Coming: An Animated Adaptation by Joan C. Gratz’. In Nordic Irish Studies, Carmen Zamorano Lena and Billy Gray (eds.) Dalarna University, Falun, January 2021.
Research Supervision
- Contexts of short animated documentary production in the United Kingdom, Carla Mackinnon, May 2021.
Memberships
Advance HE Membership
- Fellow (FHEA)