Our distinguished guest speaker for Michaelmas Term is Justin Quinn (Charles University, Prague). Justin will be speaking on 'Native and Foreign Radicals in Twentieth Century Irish Poetry' and will be introduced by Prof. Stephen Matterson.
Justin Quinn was born in Dublin in 1968. He received a doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin and now works at the Charles University in Prague, where he is Associate Professor at the Department of English and American Studies. He has published two studies of American Poetry, Gathered Beneath the Storm: Wallace Stevens, Nature and Community, and American Errancy: Empire, Sublimity and Modern Poetry, as well as four collections of poetry, most recently Waves and Trees (Gallery, 2006). He was a founder editor of the poetry journal Metre. His translations of Czech poetry have appeared widely. In addition to teaching at Charles University, Quinn also served as visiting faculty at Villanova University for the Spring semester of 2007 as holder of the Heimbold Endowed Chair in Irish Studies, one of the most prestigious Irish Studies positions in the United States. His study The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry 1800 - 2000 is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
Justin Quinn was born in Dublin in 1968. He received a doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin and now works at the Charles University in Prague, where he is Associate Professor at the Department of English and American Studies. He has published two studies of American Poetry, Gathered Beneath the Storm: Wallace Stevens, Nature and Community, and American Errancy: Empire, Sublimity and Modern Poetry, as well as four collections of poetry, most recently Waves and Trees (Gallery, 2006). He was a founder editor of the poetry journal Metre. His translations of Czech poetry have appeared widely. In addition to teaching at Charles University, Quinn also served as visiting faculty at Villanova University for the Spring semester of 2007 as holder of the Heimbold Endowed Chair in Irish Studies, one of the most prestigious Irish Studies positions in the United States. His study The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry 1800 - 2000 is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
All are welcome!
