{"id":6407,"date":"2026-09-12T20:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T20:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gcas.ie\/?page_id=6407"},"modified":"2026-09-12T20:51:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T20:51:53","slug":"undergraduate-college-faculty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gcas.ie\/de\/undergraduate-college-faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate College Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- ============================================================\n     GCAS \u2014 BA FACULTY\n     Page slug: ba-faculty\n     LIGHT background template. 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gap: 20px 24px; }\n  .gfac__stage { width: 165px; height: 165px; }\n}\n@media (max-width: 560px) {\n  .gfac { padding: 8px 16px 16px; }\n  .gfac__grid { grid-template-columns: 1fr; gap: 16px; }\n  .gfac__stage { width: 150px; height: 150px; }\n  .gfac__stage img { filter: grayscale(0%); }\n}\n@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {\n  .gfac *, .gfac *::before, .gfac *::after { transition: none !important; }\n}\n<\/style>\n\n<div class=\"gbaf\">\n  <header class=\"gbaf__head\">\n    <p class=\"gbaf__eyebrow\">GCAS College Dublin<\/p>\n    <h1 class=\"gbaf__title\">BA Faculty<\/h1>\n    <p class=\"gbaf__lead\">The BA in Interdisciplinary Studies is taught by working philosophers, psychoanalysts, artists, filmmakers, theologians and journalists \u2014 people who are doing the research they teach, not relaying it second-hand.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"gbaf__lead\">Class sizes stay small enough that you know your lecturers and they know your work.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"gbaf__hint\">Select a name to read more<\/p>\n  <\/header>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gfac\">\n  <div class=\"gfac__grid\">\n\n    <article class=\"gfac__person\">\n      <button class=\"gfac__trigger\" type=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n        <span class=\"gfac__stage\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gcas.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Mario-Faculty-1.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Mario D'Amato\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__place\">Atlanta<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__name\">Mario D&#8217;Amato, PhD<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__role\">Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__more\">Read more<\/span>\n      <\/button>\n      <div class=\"gfac__bio\"><div class=\"gfac__bio-inner\">\n        <p>Mario D&#8217;Amato completed his PhD at the University of Chicago (2000), where he studied the philosophy of religion, with a special emphasis on Buddhist philosophy. His primary research has been focused on the translation and interpretation of Sanskrit Buddhist doctrinal texts from the Yog\u0101c\u0101ra school, a school notable for having developed a Buddhist conception of the &#8220;unconscious.&#8221;<\/p>\n        <p>D&#8217;Amato published a study and annotated translation of the fourth century CE Buddhist treatise <em>Distinguishing the Middle from the Extremes<\/em> (Columbia, 2012), the co-edited volume <em>Pointing at the Moon: Buddhism, Logic, Analytic Philosophy<\/em> (Oxford, 2009), as well as a number of articles on Buddhist thought in various journals and edited volumes. His continuing research aims to engage Buddhist thought in relation to Hegel, semiotics, and especially psychoanalysis.<\/p>\n      <\/div><\/div>\n    <\/article>\n\n    <article class=\"gfac__person\">\n      <button class=\"gfac__trigger\" type=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n        <span class=\"gfac__stage\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gcas.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Brian.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Brian Alessandro\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__place\">New York \/ New Jersey<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__name\">Brian Alessandro, PhD Candidate<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__role\">Lecturer in Psychology and Cultural Studies<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__more\">Read more<\/span>\n      <\/button>\n      <div class=\"gfac__bio\"><div class=\"gfac__bio-inner\">\n        <p>Brian Alessandro is a PhD researcher at GCAS College Dublin whose work centres on the intersection of masochism, martyrdom, trauma, and resilience, with neuroplasticity and moral philosophy as connective tissue. He is taking a multidisciplinary approach with his dissertation, integrating ethnographic field work with theory and cultural studies.<\/p>\n        <p>He holds a BFA in Media from the New York Institute of Technology and an MA in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University, where he focused on trauma and bereavement.<\/p>\n      <\/div><\/div>\n    <\/article>\n\n    <article class=\"gfac__person\">\n      <button class=\"gfac__trigger\" type=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n        <span class=\"gfac__stage\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gcas.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Alfie-Bown.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Alfie Bown\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__place\">London<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__name\">Alfie Bown, PhD<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__role\">Affiliate Professor<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__more\">Read more<\/span>\n      <\/button>\n      <div class=\"gfac__bio\"><div class=\"gfac__bio-inner\">\n        <p>Alfie Bown is Lecturer in Digital Media Culture and Technology at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is author of several books on psychoanalysis and digital media including <em>The Playstation Dreamworld<\/em> (Polity, 2017), <em>Dream Lovers: The Gamification of Relationships<\/em> (Pluto, 2022) and <em>In the Event of Laughter<\/em> (Bloomsbury, 2018).<\/p>\n        <p>He has also edited many books including <em>Why Are Animals Funny?<\/em> (Zero, 2014) and <em>Post-Memes<\/em> (Punctum, 2019). His journalism has appeared in The Guardian, The Paris Review, New Statesman, Newsweek, Tribune, The Independent and OpenDemocracy.<\/p>\n      <\/div><\/div>\n    <\/article>\n\n    <article class=\"gfac__person\">\n      <button class=\"gfac__trigger\" type=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n        <span class=\"gfac__stage\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gcas.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Pearl.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Pearl Brock\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__place\">Dublin<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__name\">Pearl Brock, PhD<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__role\">Lecturer in Psychology<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__more\">Read more<\/span>\n      <\/button>\n      <div class=\"gfac__bio\"><div class=\"gfac__bio-inner\">\n        <p>Pearl Brock is a Consultant Clinical Psychotherapist, Senior Lecturer, and Clinical Director of Think Well Psychotherapy Clinic in Ireland. She began her professional journey in the Church of Ireland, training toward ordination before redirecting her path to psychotherapy in order to engage with a broader cohort of people.<\/p>\n        <p>Her clinical and academic work is grounded in psychodynamic and Jungian approaches, with expertise in Jungian dream analysis. Her research interests focus on complex clinical presentations, including work with offenders and individuals facing acute psychological challenges, alongside a wider concern with the nature of human experience. She is also the founder of Personal Philosophy Focused Psychotherapy (PPFP), a developing therapeutic model that integrates philosophical inquiry with psychotherapeutic practice.<\/p>\n        <p>In higher education she lectures on ethics, reflective practice, abnormal psychology, and professional development, and at GCAS she teaches Applied Ethics within the BA programme. She completed her PhD at GCAS in 2025.<\/p>\n      <\/div><\/div>\n    <\/article>\n\n    <article class=\"gfac__person\">\n      <button class=\"gfac__trigger\" type=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n        <span class=\"gfac__stage\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gcas.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Jamie-Davies.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Jamie Davies\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__place\">Bristol, England<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__name\">Jamie Davies, PhD<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__role\">Lecturer in Philosophy<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__more\">Read more<\/span>\n      <\/button>\n      <div class=\"gfac__bio\"><div class=\"gfac__bio-inner\">\n        <p>Jamie Davies is a philosopher specialising in post-Kantian European thought, including critical theory, visual culture, and literary theory. He completed his PhD, <em>The Unmooring<\/em>, at GCAS, on the deconstruction of the subject in Heidegger, Derrida, Nancy, and Agamben.<\/p>\n        <p>From this, his current research focuses on understanding exhaustion as a mode of thinking being, the subject, and language beyond the paradigm of substance, and on articulating a &#8220;useless&#8221; form of life that would be ethical in a manner not predicated on duty. At GCAS he primarily teaches at the intersections between philosophy and literature.<\/p>\n      <\/div><\/div>\n    <\/article>\n\n    <article class=\"gfac__person\">\n      <button class=\"gfac__trigger\" type=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n        <span class=\"gfac__stage\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gcas.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Fr.-Alexander-Earl.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Fr. Alexander Earl\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__place\">South Carolina<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__name\">Fr. Alexander Earl, M.Div<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__role\">Lecturer in Theology<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__more\">Read more<\/span>\n      <\/button>\n      <div class=\"gfac__bio\"><div class=\"gfac__bio-inner\">\n        <p>Father Alexander Earl serves as a priest at St John of the Ladder Orthodox Church in Greenville, South Carolina, a parish within the Orthodox Church in America. He holds an MDiv from St Vladimir&#8217;s Orthodox Theological Seminary and an MA in Religion and Philosophical Theology from Yale Divinity School.<\/p>\n        <p>His academic interests and specialisation include the Eastern patristic tradition, with emphasis on the concept of theophany and the relationship between Christian dogma and Platonic metaphysics. He has appeared in magazines including the Marginalia Review of Books and has published peer-reviewed articles in the International Philosophical Quarterly, Christian Bioethics, and the Journal of Early Christian Studies. He is also a contributor to the forthcoming <em>Into the Light: Orthodox Christianity and Classical Education<\/em>, from St Vladimir&#8217;s Seminary Press.<\/p>\n        <p>He is co-founder, former director, and current Senior Fellow of the Pacifica Center for Philosophy + Theology in Santa Monica, California.<\/p>\n      <\/div><\/div>\n    <\/article>\n\n    <article class=\"gfac__person\">\n      <button class=\"gfac__trigger\" type=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n        <span class=\"gfac__stage\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gcas.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Francisco-Gonzalez-Castro.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Francisco Gonz\u00e1lez Castro\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__place\">Santiago, Chile<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__name\">Francisco Gonz\u00e1lez Castro, PhD<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__role\">Professor of Political Theory<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__more\">Read more<\/span>\n      <\/button>\n      <div class=\"gfac__bio\"><div class=\"gfac__bio-inner\">\n        <p>Francisco Gonz\u00e1lez Castro (Santiago, Chile, 1984) is an artist, researcher and writer. He holds a PhD in Arts, major in Visual Arts, from the Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica de Chile, and is part of both GCAS College Dublin and GCAS Latin America. He has exhibited his artistic work in numerous countries and presented his research in conferences, journals and books.<\/p>\n        <p>He is the author of <em>Matar un Rey. Consideraciones para una pr\u00e1ctica pol\u00edtico-art\u00edstica<\/em> (2023), <em>Fuera de lugar. Textos sobre pr\u00e1cticas art\u00edsticas, pol\u00edticas y afectivas<\/em> (2023) and <em>Puntos en el Borde: cr\u00f3nica de un viaje por la frontera M\u00e9xico-Estados Unidos<\/em> (Almac\u00e9n Editorial, 2022); editor of <em>Otro lugar. Perspectivas sobre la empat\u00eda y sus potencias<\/em> (Editorial Milhojas, 2022); and co-author of <em>Performance Art en Chile<\/em> (Metales Pesados, 2016), <em>Mario Pedrosa y el CISAC<\/em> (Metales Pesados, 2019) and <em>El Arte como Revoluci\u00f3n<\/em> (Metales Pesados, 2022).<\/p>\n      <\/div><\/div>\n    <\/article>\n\n    <article class=\"gfac__person\">\n      <button class=\"gfac__trigger\" type=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n        <span class=\"gfac__stage\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gcas.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Chris-Hedges.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Chris Hedges\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__place\">Princeton<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__name\">Chris Hedges<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__role\">Lecturer in Ethics<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__more\">Read more<\/span>\n      <\/button>\n      <div class=\"gfac__bio\"><div class=\"gfac__bio-inner\">\n        <p>Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who spent fifteen years as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, serving as Middle East and Balkans bureau chief and reporting from more than fifty countries. He was part of the team awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for the paper&#8217;s coverage of global terrorism, and received the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism the same year. He reported earlier for The Christian Science Monitor, The Dallas Morning News, and National Public Radio, covering the conflicts in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala.<\/p>\n        <p>He is the author of <em>War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning<\/em>, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, along with <em>American Fascists<\/em>, <em>Empire of Illusion<\/em>, <em>Death of the Liberal Class<\/em>, <em>Wages of Rebellion<\/em>, <em>Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt<\/em> with the cartoonist Joe Sacco, and <em>America: The Farewell Tour<\/em>. He holds a BA in English literature from Colgate University and a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School, where he also studied ancient Greek and Latin. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University, and the University of Toronto, and has taught college-credit courses in the New Jersey prison system since 2013. He writes and broadcasts The Chris Hedges Report.<\/p>\n      <\/div><\/div>\n    <\/article>\n\n    <article class=\"gfac__person\">\n      <button class=\"gfac__trigger\" type=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n        <span class=\"gfac__stage\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gcas.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Jessi.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Jessi Knippel\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__place\">Portland, USA<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__name\">Jessi Knippel, PhD Researcher<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__role\">Lecturer<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__more\">Read more<\/span>\n      <\/button>\n      <div class=\"gfac__bio\"><div class=\"gfac__bio-inner\">\n        <p>Jessi Knippel holds three master&#8217;s degrees in Religion, one with a focus on gender studies and two with an emphasis in art and pop culture. She is currently working on her PhD dissertation at Claremont Graduate School, where she is examining connections between the English witch trials and African hybrid religion in the American South and Caribbean.<\/p>\n        <p>Her research interests include pop culture, religion, gender and sexuality studies, cults, American evangelicalism, and religious deconstruction. She teaches humanities courses at GCAS and lives with her family in Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n      <\/div><\/div>\n    <\/article>\n\n    <article class=\"gfac__person\">\n      <button class=\"gfac__trigger\" type=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n        <span class=\"gfac__stage\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gcas.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Nic-1.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Nicholas Laccetti\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__place\">Manhattan, New York City<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__name\">Nicholas Laccetti, PhD Candidate<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__role\">Lecturer in Religion and Culture<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__more\">Read more<\/span>\n      <\/button>\n      <div class=\"gfac__bio\"><div class=\"gfac__bio-inner\">\n        <p>Nicholas Laccetti is a writer and theologian based in New York City. He holds an MDiv from Union Theological Seminary and an MA in Medieval Studies from Fordham University.<\/p>\n        <p>His PhD research at GCAS focuses on the theme and theological aesthetics of America in radical death-of-God theology. For the BA programme he teaches courses on the history of reading and on religious studies.<\/p>\n      <\/div><\/div>\n    <\/article>\n\n    <article class=\"gfac__person\">\n      <button class=\"gfac__trigger\" type=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n        <span class=\"gfac__stage\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gcas.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Helen-Rollins.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Helen Rollins\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__place\">Belfast<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__name\">Helen Rollins, MA<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__role\">Lecturer in Film, Literature, and Psychoanalysis<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__more\">Read more<\/span>\n      <\/button>\n      <div class=\"gfac__bio\"><div class=\"gfac__bio-inner\">\n        <p>Helen Rollins graduated as top student in Corpus Christi College at Cambridge University, with a double first in modern languages. She was also a boursi\u00e8re \u00e9trang\u00e8re at the \u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure in Lyon. At twenty-two she taught French language, film and literature at Eton College, leaving that post two years later to work as a filmmaker.<\/p>\n        <p>In her cinematic work she explores ideas of desire, repression and loss. She has a particular interest in psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, and film and literature from the French and Spanish-speaking world. She has taught at GCAS since 2020.<\/p>\n      <\/div><\/div>\n    <\/article>\n\n    <article class=\"gfac__person\">\n      <button class=\"gfac__trigger\" type=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n        <span class=\"gfac__stage\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gcas.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Filippo-1-1.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Filippo Scafi\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__place\">Turin, Italy<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__name\">Filippo Scafi, PhD<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__role\">Lecturer in Philosophy and Anthropology<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gfac__more\">Read more<\/span>\n      <\/button>\n      <div class=\"gfac__bio\"><div class=\"gfac__bio-inner\">\n        <p>Filippo Scafi is a PhD candidate in philosophy at GCAS College Dublin and an affiliated researcher at the School of Materialist Research. 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