Gwenda Young teaches film at University College Cork, Ireland and led the development of the film studies program at the University.
She is the author of Clarence Brown: Hollywood’s Forgotten Master (University Press of Kentucky, 2018); co-director of the Creative Ireland funded documentary, Movie Memories, and of the Cork Movie Memories online archive; and has published on American cinema, stardom, cinema memory, and amateur filmmaking in a range of international journals and edited collections. She co-edited (with Eibhear Walshe) a collection of critical essays on the Irish writer, Molly Keane (Four Courts press, 2006), and Amateur Filmmaking: The Home Movie, the Archive, the Web with Laura Rascaroli and Barry Monahan (Bloomsbury, 2014).
Young collaborated with historian and filmmaker Kevin Brownlow on a short retrospective on Clarence Brown at the National Film Theatre in London in 2003, as well as on gala screenings of Brown films at the Fastnet Film Festival Cork in 2018 and 2019.