Hilary Term Seminar 5 | Dr Miriam Haughton (NUI Galway)

For our fifth and penultimate seminar of Hilary Term, we are delighted to welcome Dr Miriam Haughton from NUI Galway as guest speaker on Thursday 28th March. Dr Haughton will present her paper entitled “The Extraordinary Everyday Experience: Staging Trauma”. 

Dr Haughton is Director of Postgraduate Studies in Drama, Theatre and Performance at NUI Galway. Her recent monograph Staging Trauma: Bodies in Shadow (2018) is published with Palgrave. She co-edited the volume Radical Contemporary Theatre Practices by Women in Ireland (Carysfort, 2015), and journal special issues of Ilha Do Desterro (2018) and Irish Theatre International (2014). She has published journal articles in Contemporary Theatre Review, Modern Drama (‘Honourable Mention’), New Theatre Quarterly, Irish Studies Review and Mortality, alongside multiple chapters in edited collections. Dr Haughton is on the Executive of ISTR, a member of the Feminist Working Group of IFTR, a supporting member of the NWCI and Director of the Feminist Storytelling Network (feministstorytelling.ie)

The seminar will take place at 5pm in 3.19 Áras an Phiarsaigh and will be chaired by Dr Julie Bates from the School. All are welcome to attend and we hope to see many of you there.

Hilary Term Seminar 3|Dr Brendan O’Connell (TCD)

We are delighted to have Dr Brendan O’Connell as our speaker for the third seminar of Hilary Term. Dr O’Connell will be presenting his paper, “Aping Chaucer: The Animal Mimics of Mother Hubberds Tale“ on Thursday, 28th February, at 5pm in 3.19 Áras an Phiarsaigh. The seminar will be chaired by Dr Mark Faulkner.

Dr O’Connell teaches Middle English literature in the School of English at TCD. His research focuses primarily on the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, as well as the early modern reception and transmission of Chaucer’s works. He is particularly interested in the evolution of the beast fable between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, and his recent and forthcoming publications include essays on Chaucerian apocrypha and on Chaucer’s influence on Spenser.

We hope you can join us for what will surely be a fascinating evening!

 

Hilary Term Seminar 1 | Professor Andrew Murphy

We are delighted to have Professor Andrew Murphy as our first speaker this term. On Thursday 31st January at 5pm, he will be giving a talk entitled, “Shakespeare Among the Stationers: The Early Editions in Context”.

Professor Murphy is the recently appointed 1867 Professor of English at the School. Before joining us here in Trinity, he spent twenty years at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. However, he is no stranger to the college as he graduated from Trinity with a TSM in English and Psychology before pursuing his graduate studies in Brandeis University.  His most recent book is Ireland, Reading and Cultural Nationalism, 1790-1930: Bringing the Nation to Book (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and he is currently working on producing a revised and updated edition of Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing, first published by Cambridge University Press in 2003.

The talk will take place in 3.19 Áras an Phiarsaigh and will be chaired by Dr Ema Vyroubalová. There will be a wine reception following the talk in the Oscar Wilde Centre. All are welcome.

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/

 

 

Seminar #5: Alexander Jones and Alicia Byrne Keane

Join us on Thursday 15th November at 5pm in the Salmon Lecture Theatre (Hamilton Building) for an evening of exciting new scholarship. We will be joined by two of the School’s PhD researchers, Alexander Jones and Alicia Byrne Keane.

Alexander Jones is a third year PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Tom Walker, and is supported by TCD’s Ussher Fellowship. His thesis explores the role of psychoanalytic theory in the poetry and aesthetic thought of Louis MacNeice. He has reviewed for Irish Studies Review and was the editor-in-chief of the seventeenth volume of Trinity Postgraduate Review. He will be presenting on “Fire and Faith in the Wartime Poetry of Louis MacNeice and T.S Eliot”. 

Alicia Byrne Keane is a second year PhD student at Trinity College Dublin. She completed her undergraduate degree at TCD in English Literature and French. She went on to a Masters at Oxford University, where she wrote on the invention of Ireland in the fiction of Kevin Barry. She is currently working on the first chapter of a thesis on ‘vague’ writing and translated literature, with relation to the works of Samuel Beckett and Haruki Murakami. She will be presenting on “Rethinking the ‘Cult of Home’: Jane Austen, Samuel Beckett and Vagueness”. Her research is supported by an IRC Postgraduate Scholarship. 

We are also preparing our CFP for the Hilary Term programme which will be released soon, so get your thinking caps on!

 

Seminar #4 | Dr Amy Prendergast

We are delighted to be joined by Dr Amy Prendergast on Thursday November 1st at 5pm in the Salmon Lecture Theatre for her talk, “Elizabeth Griffith’s Collection of Novels: Translation, Transmission and Cultural Transfer in the Eighteenth Century”.

Dr Prendergast is Teaching Fellow in Eighteenth-Century Writing in the School of English. She is the author of Literary Salons Across Britain and Ireland in the Long Eighteenth Century (Palgrave, 2015), as well as of peer-reviewed articles and chapters on Maria Edgeworth; the salon hostess Lady Moira;  the intersections between Irish and French sentimental novels; and on correspondence by Enlightenment Ireland’s female writers. She is currently working on her second monograph, which looks at life writing in eighteenth-century Ireland.

The seminar will be chaired by Professor Aileen Douglas, Head of the School of English.

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!