Dr. Meghan Donnelly

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Meghan Rose Donnelly's current work focuses on the Indonesian Order of Catholic nuns and their lifelong process of self-becoming. Her research interweaves themes of subjectivity, performance, and moral experience to investigate how individuals are made into united, interchangeable subjects within institutional contexts. The nuns, regularly reassigned to different convents worldwide, adapt to diverse communities and embody the joyful path of sisterhood. She employs theatrical methods in her ethnographic research, utilizing playmaking as a representation and research methodology. Notably, she directed ethnographic plays such as 'Collapsed,' which addressed the experiences of elderly residents in a South London care home, and 'Convent Calling,' which compared the experiences of Indonesian Catholic nuns with living through lockdown. Meghan completed her PhD in 2022 from the London School of Economics and Political Science, supervised by Catherine Allerton and Nick Long, and holds a Master's degree from the University of Hawai‘i Mānoa and a Bachelor's degree from Williams College.

Research Interests

Requirements for University of Manchester

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.3
IELTS
Listening
Required:6
Reading
Required:6
Writing
Required:6
Speaking
Required:6
Overall
Required:7
TOEFL
Listening
Required:20
Reading
Required:20
Writing
Required:20
Speaking
Required:20
Total
Required:100
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in a relevant engineering or science subject Strong background in mathematics and physics
Application Checklist
  • Academic transcripts
  • Two academic references
  • Personal statement
  • CV/Resume
  • English language proficiency certificate
Specialization Notes

Includes MSc in Advanced Electrical Power Systems and MSc in Communications and Signal Processing.