Books By Dara Waldron - Author

Dara Waldron is a film scholar and author of two monographs and multiple articles in international film journals and magazines: Millennium Film Journal, Alphaville, and MIRAJ among others. His 2018 book New Nonfiction Film: Art, Poetics and Documentary Theory is a standard reference for documentary filmmaking courses across the globe. He teaches Critical and Contextual studies at Limerick School of Art and Design and has been a visiting Professor at Aalto University in Helsinki, LUCA School of Arts in Brussels, and the Ethnography Lab at University of Colorado, Boulder. In 2023 he published a study of sheepherding traditions documented in the 2009 film Sweetgrass (dir. Barbash, Castaing-Taylor) that included auto-ethnographic reflection on herding practices and farming in Ireland. A Sheepdog Named Oscar: Love, Loss, and Interspecies Companionship in Ireland's Midwest, an extension of this study, is his first memoir. Born in Manchester and raised in Ireland,