Dr. Crosson's research interests include the relationship between film, visual media and sport; and Irish film and literature. He has authored, edited, or co-edited ten books and over fifty mostly single-authored peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters to date. Among his current research areas is an examination of the growth and significance of Irish-language cinema with several forthcoming publications on the topic. He is the Leader of the Sport & Exercise Research Group within the College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies, and Co-Director of the BA Performance and Screen Studies Subject. His research projects include an examination of the representation of sport in film, the subject of several conferences and symposia he has convened in University of Galway over the past ten years, and his award-winning monographs Sport and Film (Routledge, 2013) and Gaelic Games on Film: From silent films to Hollywood hurling, horror and the emergence of Irish cinema (Cork University Press, 2019), recipient of the Dean's Award for Research (2020). He has also uncovered important depictions of sport in film, in particular of Gaelic games, and his research has been featured in national and international media, including The Irish Times , The Irish Examiner, The Sunday Independent, El País, The Sunday Times , The Sunday Business Post, Journal.ie , the international TV channels ITV, and ARTE and national broadcasters RTÉ, TG4, and Newstalk. To date he has contributed to 13 documentary projects, including as writer and co-producer of major new TG4 mini-series Iománaíocht Hollywood /Hollywood Hurling (2025) examining depictions of Gaelic games on film, based on his 2019 monograph. He was also the Archive Footage consultant for the RTÉ documentary series The Game: The Story of Hurling (2019), acclaimed as among the greatest documentary productions ever made on the sport, which features material he has uncovered during his research. His research in this area has also resulted in contributions to several major collections, including the award-winning volume The Gaelic Athletic Association 1884-2009 and Screening Irish-America: Representing Irish-America in Film and Television. In addition, he has co-edited special numbers of the prestigious peer-reviewed journals Media History (on Sport and the Media in Ireland (Vol. 17, Issue 2, 2011)), Sport in Society : sport, the media and Ireland: intersections of gender, class and geography (Vol. 27, Issue 6, 2024) and Obra Digital: Latest trends and perspectives in sports marketing, communication and sponsorship (vol. 28, 2025). He also did the research towards, and provided the liner notes for GAA Gold - All Ireland Hurling Championship Finals 1948-1959 (Irish Film Institute, 2010) and GAA Football Gold: All-Ireland Final Highlights: 1947-1959 (Irish Film Institute, 2011), best-selling DVDs which made available rarely seen footage of hurling and football all-Ireland finals in these years. He is Project Leader of the Sport in European Cinema initiative (https://sportandfilm.eu/), a research and education platform and database capturing the extraordinary story of how sport has featured across the history of European cinema.

Dr. Crosson was supervisor of the Marie Skodowska-Curie Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (budget: 294, 886,08) Trade, Trauma and Tradition: Extractive industries, cultural genocide and Indigenous resistence in the 1900s and today.

PhD research projects that he has supervised to completion include:

The role of Irish and Irish-themed media in the formation and maintenance of Irish cultural identity in Britain(primary-supervisor, 2023)

Punk Aesthetics In Cinema: The Intersections Of Punk Movements, Queer Histories And Subcultural Filmmaking(primary-supervisor, 2021)

Investigating the impact of cultural products from dominant Western countries on indigenous or minority cultures (Practice-based, primary-supervisor, 2016)

I-Ulysses: A virtual learning environment for James Joyces Ulysses (Practice-based, primary supervisor 2015)Living the Stories We Create: An Educational Response to Narrative in the Digital Age (2016)

Living the Stories We Create: An Educational Response to Narrative in the Digital Age (2016)

Disability, deficiency and excess : a critical re-examination of the construction, production and representations of physical disability in contemporary European film (2015)

Comic-Book Movie: The Industrial and Formal Importance of the Comic Book Adaptation in Contemporary Hollywood Filmmaking. (2011)

Dr Crosson is also on either the Graduate Research Committee or a PhD Panel Member for the following PhD research Projects

Framing The Irish Surf Film: Genre, Discourse, History, and Heritage Film, Subculture and Digital Media in Ireland (co-supervisor)

Examining the impact of professional development in Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) and the digitisation of learning in teaching communities across multiple higher education sites in the CUA ( Connacht Ulster Alliance) ( 2020-2025)

Slasher Icons: The Veroes of Fandom Seeking justice and justification - a case study on ethos construction by true crime storytellers.

Detecting the City: Crime Film and Urban Space in Contemporary China Global

Genres in Theory and Practice: Action, Science Fiction, Crime and Small National Cinema.

As President of the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) (2013-2019), Dr. Crosson also facilitated and contributed to a wide range of further research and networking projects, including the translation projects Yeats Reborn [http//:www.yeatsreborn.eu], the John Banville Translation Project [http:www.johnbanville.eu ] and the Aistriú: Crossing Territories, Languages & Artforms project [https://www.universityofgalway.ie/aistriu/]. He was the lead author of a report on Irish Studies in Europe - Irish Studies in continental Europe today and its potential (2018) - and is also a member of the stakeholder network of the Horizon2020 supported project SHAPE-ID.

He is currently a research partner on the following funded research projects:

* The Film Corner Clubs 2026-2028. From virtual to real (2026-2028)

* F-Airplay: Women, Sport amp; Media (Funded by Sport Ireland and the Olympic Federation of Ireland)

*INTRUTHS 2: Articulations of Individual and Communal Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Irish Writing (Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science)

*Football and Visual Culture under Francoism: Discourses of Class, Gender and National Construction in Cinema, Newsreels and the Press 1939-1975 (FUCAV) (Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science)

Dr. Crosson is a member of the Management Committee of the EU COST Action Language Plurality in Europes Changing Media Sphere (PLURILINGMEDIA) (CA23105) concerned with advancing collaboration and bringing coherence to the field of European media from the perspective of language plurality, encouraging involvement of scholars in related disciplines and facilitating knowledge transfer between academics and practitioners.He has also been an expert evaluator for major European funding agencies and institutions including the EC Commission, the National Science Centre (Poland), and the National University of Ireland.

Dr. Seán Crosson is Associate Professor of Film in the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, Leader of the Sport & Exercise Research Group within the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, and Co-Director of the BA Performance and Screen Studies Subject. He has published (as either author, editor, or co-editor) ten books and over sixty peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters to date, and given invited lectures and keynote addresses nationally and internationally on his research including in Norway, Austria, Brazil, Belgium, China, Finland, Sweden, Spain, Italy, France, Portugal, Slovenia, the UK and the U.S. In addition, he has contributed to leading international cultural events including Milwaukee Irish Fest, the Kilkenny Arts Festival and EXPO Milano 2015. He was President of the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) from 2013-2019 and is a member of the Irish Classification of Films Appeal Board. He is Project Leader of the Sport in European Cinema initiative [https://sportandfilm.eu/], a research and education platform and database capturing the extraordinary story of how sport has featured across the history of European cinema.

Dr. Crosson's teaching interests include World Cinema, Documentary, Film History, Irish Cinema, Sport Cinema, Visual Culture and Research Methods. He also teaches classes on adaptation, gender and cinema, and experimental film.