Professor of Cultural Studies and Digital Humanities; Head of Art History, School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University

 

 

Michael Walsh is Professor for Cultural Studies and Digital Humanities, Nanyang Technological University Singapore. He successfully nominated Famagusta twice for inclusion in the World Monuments Fund Watch List of endangered heritage sites, then went on to organise four international conferences on the history, art and architecture of the walled city. From these meetings in Paris, Budapest, Bern and Padua five edited collections on Famagusta have been published. They are: Walsh, M., N. Coureas, P. Edbury (eds.), Medieval and Renaissance Famagusta: Studies in Art, Architecture and History (Ashgate Press, 2012); Walsh, M, N. Coureas, and T. Kiss (eds.), Crusader to Venetian Famagusta: ‘The Harbour of all this Sea and Realm’ (Central European University Press, 2014); Walsh, M. (ed.),City of Empires: Ottoman and British Famagusta 1571 – 1960 (Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2015); Walsh, M. (ed.), The Armenian Church of Famagusta and the Complexity of Cypriot Heritage: Prayers Long Silent (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017); and most recently Walsh, M. (Ed), Famagusta Maritima: Mariners, Merchants and Mercenaries (Brill, 2019). His most recent work is concerned with the digital modelling of the city’s extant ecclesiastical structures with particular attention to musicn.