Dr Carly Collier

Between 2022 and 2024, Carly Collier worked as a postdoctoral research associate at University College Dublin (UCD) on the IRC/AHRC Digital Humanities Project: Typhoid, Cockles, and Terrorism: The Turbulent History of Anglo-Irish Typhoid Control. Carly's background is in the visual arts and material culture (PhD Art History, University of Warwick 2014); she was previously, first, Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings (2016-2020) and then Assistant Curator of Photographs (2021-2022) at Royal Collection Trust where she curated the touring exhibition Victoria & Albert: Our Lives in Watercolour (2019-21) in commemoration of the bicentenary of the births of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. 

At UCD, Carly co-curated the Typhoid, Cockles, and Terrorism exhibition at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI), UCD, and Dublin City Library and Archive (DCLA) and co-authored the graphic novel: Fear & Fever: 14 Days of Typhoid in Edwardian Dublin. Following the launch of the exhibition, Carly secured a permanent post as Art Collection Registrar for the Irish Government (Office of Public Works).