Seminar #6| Dr Ramona Wray, QUB

For our final seminar of Michaelmas Term, we are delighted to be joined by Dr Ramona Wray from Queen’s University Belfast. She will present her paper, entitled “Henry V after the War of Terror”, on Thursday 29th November at 5pm in the Salmon lecture theatre.

Dr Wray is a Reader in Renaissance Literature in the School of Arts, English and Languages at QUB. Her research interests include Shakespeare, early modern drama, women’s writing, adaptation, film and memory studies.

She is the editor of the Arden Early Modern Drama edition of Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam, the author of Women Writers in the Seventeenth Century and the co-author of Great Shakespeareans: Welles, Kurosawa, Kozintsev, Zeffirelli.  Her articles on Shakespeare appropriation and early modern women’s writing have appeared in Early Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin, Shakespeare Quarterly and Women’s Writing. Dr Wray has recently completed an AHRC funded project on ‘Memory and Community in Early Modern Britain’, the findings of which have just been published in a special issue of Memory Studies.

Dr Wray’s talk will be chaired by Dr Mark Sweetnam (TCD School of English). There will be a wine reception to follow in the Oscar Wilde Centre. 

Hope you can all join us for what will certainly be a wonderful seminar and a great end to our Michaelmas Term programme!

Don’t forget that we are currently accepting abstracts for our Hilary Term programme. More information on our CFP can be found here: https://staffpostgraduate18.wordpress.com/2018/11/20/call-for-papers-hilary-term-2019/

 

 

Dr Jarlath Killeen | “Meeting Red Riding Hood Again…With Harry Clarke”

For our second seminar of Michaelmas Term, we are delighted to have Dr Jarlath Killeen present his talk, “Meeting Red Riding Hood Again…With Harry Clarke”. Dr Killeen is a lecturer in Victorian literature, with a special interest in Gothic literature and Children’s literature. The seminar will take place on Thursday 4th October at 5pm in the Salmon Lecture Theatre (Hamilton Building). Dr Jane Carroll, also of the School of English, will chair the event.

Following the seminar, we invite you to join us for the joint launch of two exciting new works from School of English PhD alumni, Dr Conor Reid (The Science and Fiction of Edgar Rice Burroughs) and Dr Ailise Bulfin (Gothic Invasions: Imperialism, War and Fin-de-Siecle Popular Fiction). This will take place in the Oscar Wilde Centre, also accessed from within the Hamilton Building, at 6pm.

Hope you can join us for two fantastic events!

Many thanks to everyone who came last night to see Professor Nicholas Grene’s seminar. It was wonderful to see so many of you there and to meet many of you at the wine reception. We are very grateful to Professor Grene for launching this term’s series with a fascinating paper, to Dr Tom Walker for chairing the event, and to everyone who helped make the evening a success.

Professor Nicholas Grene speaking about farm life in the work of John McGahern (photo credit: Moonyoung Hong)

We hope to see you again in Week 4, on Thursday 4th October at 5pm, for Dr Jarlath Killeen’s paper, “Meeting Red Riding Hood Again…With Harry Clarke”. It will take place in the Salmon lecture theatre (Hamilton Building) and Dr Jane Suzanne Carroll will chair the seminar.

Following the seminar there will the joint launch of books by Dr Conor Reid and Dr Ailise Bulfin in the Oscar Wilde Centre at 6.15pm. Dr Reid and Dr Bulfin are former PhD students from the School. All are welcome to celebrate the publication of Dr Reid’s The Science and Fiction of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Dr Bulfin’s Gothic Invasions: Imperialism, War and Fin-de-Siecle Popular Fiction. Join us for an evening of exciting new scholarship!

 

 

First Seminar of Michaelmas Term: Professor Nicholas Grene, “John McGahern and the Alternative Life of the Farm”

We are honoured and delighted to begin this year’s series with Professor Nicholas Grene, who will be speaking tomorrow,  Thursday 20th September, on “John McGahern and the Alternative Life of the Farm”. The seminar will take place at 5pm in the Salmon Lecture Theatre, Hamilton Building (click link for map).

Professor Grene is Professor Emeritus in the School of English. He is a Senior Fellow of the College, a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Life Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge.

Professor Grene’s main research interests are in drama, primarily on Shakespeare and modern Irish theatre, but he has also worked on Irish poetry and on Indian literature in English. He is the author of a number of books including Synge: a Critical Study of the Plays (1975), Shakespeare, Jonson, Molière: the Comic Contract (1980), Bernard Shaw: a Critical View, Shakespeare’s Tragic Imagination (1992), The Politics of Irish Drama (1999), Shakespeare’s Serial History Plays (2002), Yeats’s Poetic Codes (2008), R.K. Narayan (2011), Home on the Stage: Domestic Spaces in Modern Drama (2014), and most recently The Theatre of Tom Murphy (2017).

He has also edited and co-edited several works, the most recent one being The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre (2016), edited with Chris Morash. He has taught widely across a range of literature and drama in English and continues to be a big presence in the School.

Dr Tom Walker, Ussher Assistant Professor in Irish Writing, from the School of English, will chair the event and there will be time for Q & A after Prof Grene’s presentation. A wine reception will follow in the TCD Oscar Wilde Centre (also accessed through the Hamilton Building), where we can continue the discussion further!

 

 

 

 

Call For Papers: Michaelmas Term 2018

We are very pleased to release our Call For Papers for Michaelmas Term! Separate CFPs for postgraduate students (20 minute papers) and staff (40 minute papers) can be read in full below:

Call For Papers Michaelmas 2018 (postgrad)

Call For Papers Michaelmas 2018 (staff)

We very much look forward to receiving your abstracts by 1st August 2018 and putting together a programme for the autumn term that will showcase the diverse research of the School.