Introductions
I study theatre, performance, and film.
My monograph, Contemporary Irish Theatre and Social Change: Activist Aesthetics (Routledge: 2023), digs into debates about aesthetic autonomy, taking care to start from first principles. My non-fiction book, Girls Will Be Girls (2015), makes Judith Butler's theory of gender performativity accessible and (I hope) interesting to a wide demographic.
Now that the monograph's out (phew), I'm dipping toes into different research pools to see what feels right. I'm currently writing some scholarly reviews of Irish horror films and a conference paper from the perspective of an extinct Irish she-wolf. Because what is tenure for, if not pretending to be a wolf-zombie?
I'm also a creative writer and theatremaker, and think that art is sometimes (often?) the best (only?) way to figure stuff out.
If you are a potential graduate student and would like to work with me, I'm particularly interested in supervising theatre and performance research as well as work on gender, feminism, sexuality, aesthetics, and spooky shit.
Education
My Ph.D (Royal Holloway, University of London, 2012) examined the ethics of intercultural theatre practice. The thesis can be downloaded in full here.
Following my PhD, I spent a year working as a postdoctoral research assistant on the Indigeneity in the Contemporary World project, and retain a keen interest in first nations, aboriginal, and indigenous art and politics.
I hold an MPhil in Irish Theatre and Performance from Trinity College Dublin, as well as a BA in Philosophy and English Literature from the University of Galway.
I have also worked in a lot of bars. Anyone who thinks this fact doesn't belong in the education section has never worked in a bar.
Metabolomics
1. Ben-Porat, T., Alberga, A., Audet, M-C., Belleville, S., Cohen, T., Garneau, P.Y., Lavoie K.L., Marion, P., Mellah, S., Pescarus, R., Rahme, E., Santosa, S., Studer, A-S., Vuckovic, D., Woods, R., Yousefi, R. Bacon S.L. for the EMBRACE Study Team. Understanding the impact of radical changes in diet and the gut microbiota on brain function and structure: Rationale and design of the EMBRACE study. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. 19 (9), 1000-1012 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soard.2023.02.022
2. Russo, M., Napylov, A., Paquet, A., Vuckovic, D., Comparison of N-ethyl maleimide and N-(1-phenylethyl) maleimide for derivatization of biological thiols using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 412, 1639-1652, (2020).
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00216-020-02398-x
3. Sonnenberg, R., Naz, S., Cougnaud, L., Vuckovic, D., Comparison of underivatized silica and zwitterionic sulfobetaine hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography stationary phases for global metabolomics of human plasma, Journal of Chromatography A, 1608, 460419, (2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chroma.2019.460419
4. Vuckovic, D. Improving metabolome coverage and data quality: advancing metabolomics and lipidomics for biomarker discovery, Chemical Communications, 54, 6728-6749 (2018, invited feature for Emerging Investigators Issue 2018). https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2018/cc/c8cc02592d/
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Sitnikov, D., Monnin, C. & Vuckovic D., Systematic Assessment of Seven Solvent and Solid-Phase Extraction Methods for Metabolomics Analysis of Human Plasma by LC-MS, Scientific Reports 6, 38885 (2016). https://www.nature.com/articles/srep38885
Mycotoxins
1. Slobodchikova, I., Sivakumar, R., Md Rahman, S., Vuckovic, D. Characterization of phase I and glucuronide phase II metabolites of 17 mycotoxins using liquid chromatography – high-resolution mass spectrometry, Toxins, 11(8), 433, article 11080433, (2019).
2. Slobodchikova, I. & Vuckovic, D. Liquid chromatography – high-resolution mass spectrometry method for monitoring of 17 mycotoxins in human plasma for exposure studies, Journal of Chromatography A, 1548, 51-63 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chroma.2018.03.030
Lipidomics
1. Dos Santos, A. C., Vuckovic, D., Current status and advances in tissue lipidomics for cardiovascular and nutritional studies, Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 170, article 117419, (2024).
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trac.2023.117419
2. Napylov, A., Reyes Garces, N., Gomez-Rios, G., Monnin C., Olkowicz, M., Lendor, S., Bojko, B., Hamani, C., Pawliszyn, J., Vuckovic, D. In vivo solid-phase microextraction for sampling of oxylipins in brain of awake, moving rats, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 59, 2392-2398, (2020).
https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201909430
3. Monnin, C., Ramrup, P., Daigle-Young, C. & Vuckovic D., Improving negative ESI-LC-MS lipidomic analysis of human plasma using acetic acid as a mobile phase additive, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 32:201-211 (2018, top 20 most-downloaded article of 2017-2018).
https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.8024
4. J.A. Bowden, A. Heckert, C.Z. Ulmer, C.M. Jones, J.P. Koelmel, L. Abdullah, … D. Vuckovic, J.M. Weir, R. Welti, M.R. Wenk, C. Wheelock, M. Yuan, X. H. Zhao, & S. Zhou, Harmonizing Lipidomics: NIST Interlaboratory Comparison Exercise for Lipidomics using Standard Reference Material 1950 – Metabolites in Frozen Human Plasma, Journal of Lipid Research 58, 2275-2288 (2017).
https://doi.org/10.1194/jlr.M079012
