Rob Savage teaches courses in Irish, British and Atlantic World history and collaborates with colleagues in the departments of Fine Arts, Philosophy and English to teach interdisciplinary courses that explore the intersection of art, memory, narrative and history. He served as one of the directors of the University’s renowned Irish Studies program for 17 years. Savage has been a Visiting Professor at Venice International University, Trinity College Dublin, Queen’s University, Belfast, the University of Galway and at the University of Edinburgh where he held a Leverhulme Fellowship. He has published six books that explore contemporary Irish and British history. His 2010 book ‘A Loss of Innocence? Television and Irish Society 1960-1972’ was awarded the James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize for Best Book in History and Social Sciences from the American Conference for Irish Studies. His book ‘The BBC’s Irish Troubles, Television, Conflict and Northern Ireland’ was short listed for the 2015 Ewart-Biggs Literary Prize. His most recent volume, ‘Northern Ireland, the BBC and Censorship in Thatcher’s Britain’, was published by Oxford University Press in 2022. His current project considers how the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’ arrived in England in the early 1970s.