College of Graduate Studies
Dr Eoin Ó Cuinneagáin
| College of Graduate Studies | |
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| Post-Doctoral Research Fellow | |
| E-mail: | cunniew@unisa.ac.za |
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Dr Eoin Ó Cuinneagáin is a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Trans-Disciplinary Research and Graduate Studies at the University of South Africa (UNISA). He holds a BA (Hons) in Sociology from Trinity College Dublin (2014), an MSc (cum laude) in Cultural Sociology and an MA in Comparative Cultural Analysis from the University of Amsterdam (2018), and a PhD in English Literature from Linnaeus University, Sweden (2025).
His postdoctoral research investigates Indigenous and minoritised oral knowledge systems through relational, decolonial-womanist, and practice-led methodologies. The project explicitly connects Irish-language oral and sonorous practices—particularly the unaccompanied vocal singing practice of amhránaíocht—with oral epistemologies in Azania and Abya Yala, examining song, voice, and oral transmission as relational, place-based, and healing-oriented modes of knowledge production. Situated across Global South–South epistemic relations, this research foregrounds Indigenous ethics, sonorous epistemologies, and arts-based decolonial methods as interventions into colonial domains of knowledge production. Central to the project is the development of horizontal dialogue between Indigenous oral epistemic practices that have been exteriorized from centres of Anglo- and Euro-modern and patriarchal epistemic power, positioning coalitional exchange across Indigenous knowledge traditions as a vital site for unsettling colonial narratives and reconfiguring the terms of epistemic relation.
UNISA contact person: Prof Jesicca Murray