Her research interests include postcolonial conditions of art and cultural heritage across museum collections, art practices and heritage landscapes. 

Contemporary Art and Art Criticism, Historiography of Visual and Material Cultures, Postcolonial Theory, Museology, Pedagogical Strategies for Teaching Critical Theory.

Niamh Ann Kelly is Head of Art and Visual Culture at TU Dublin School of Art and Design.

She is author of Imaging the Great Irish Famine: Representing Dispossession in Visual Culture (Bloomsbury Academic 2020; 2018); Ultimate Witnesses: The Visual Culture of Death, Burial and Mourning in Famine Ireland (Cork University Press, 2017), and  books chapters on the representation of the Great Irish Famine in art, illustration and museums. She has also contributed text to  art encyclopaedias and companaions, contributed numerous articles and essays to art magazines, journals, exhibition catalogues and museum publications. She is a Director of the Irish Heritage Trust.