School of English Staff and Postgraduate Seminar Series
Seminars are held in Aras an Phiarsaigh, Room 3.19 at 5.15pm
Seminars are held in Aras an Phiarsaigh, Room 3.19 at 5.15pm
24 October: Dr. Darryl Jones
‘Scenes from the Decline and Fall of the American Empire’
‘Scenes from the Decline and Fall of the American Empire’
31 October: Dr. Bernice Murphy
‘“Conjure Wife”: Bewitched and the Suburban Gothic’
Simon Workman
‘“Not matching pictures but inventing sound”: Louis MacNeice & auditory imagination’
Followed by a wine reception for all staff and students.
7 November: Reading Week (No Seminar)
14 November: Mark Sweetnam
'A Place for Preaching and the Place of Preaching: John Donne and the Consecration of the Chapel at Lincoln's Inn'
Andrew Tobolowsky
‘The Dancer, the Dance, the Choreographer: Historiography in At Swim-Two-Birds’
21 November: Guest Speaker Justin Quinn (Charles University)
'A Place for Preaching and the Place of Preaching: John Donne and the Consecration of the Chapel at Lincoln's Inn'
Andrew Tobolowsky
‘The Dancer, the Dance, the Choreographer: Historiography in At Swim-Two-Birds’
21 November: Guest Speaker Justin Quinn (Charles University)
The renowned Irish Poet and Critic will give a talk on the subject of Irish Poetry in advance of the publication of his new study, The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry 1800 - 2000
28 November: Dr. Melanie Otto
‘White Creole or Rebel Slave?: The Discourse of Slavery in Jean Rhys’ Voyage in the Dark’
Antoinette Curtin
‘“Too Alluring to be Strictly Decent”: Physical Beauty in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature’
5 December: Book Launch (No Seminar)
