Chrissie Van Mierlo

Chrissie Van Mierlo is a Museum Professional with a decade’s experience in the heritage sector. Prior to her appointment as Museum Director with the Loughborough Bell Foundry Trust, she has spent time working at places as diverse as the James Joyce Foundation in Zurich, Switzerland, and Erewash Museum in Derbyshire, UK. In her previous life, Chrissie wrote a doctoral thesis on Catholic church history in the works of James Joyce, extensively researching the James Joyce archives at the British Library and the National Library of Ireland. She has published extensively in the field of James Joyce studies, with her book James Joyce and Catholicism appearing with Bloomsbury press in 2017.

This entry was written in July 2023.