Hilary Term Line-Up

School of English Staff and Postgraduate Research Seminar Series

Seminars are held in Áras an Phiarsaigh, Room 0.09 at 5.15pm

Hilary Term 2008

16 January

Caroline Elbay:

‘Beckett: MUCH ADO ABOUT … NOTHING ? Voicing
Dissent Through Silence and Non-Action’
&
Ann Hoag:
‘Karen Blixen’s Out of Africa: Authority and Imperialism
in Women’s Travel Writing’

23 January

Jane Carroll:
‘Two Misconstrued Attic Spaces in Susan Cooper’s The
Dark Is Rising Sequence’
&
Margaret Matthews:
‘Jane Austen and the Borders of English National Identity’

30 January

Guest Speaker
Prof. Michael Parker, University of Central Lancashire:

‘“Fallout from the Thunder”: Northern Irish Poetry Since 9/11’

6 February: Reading Week – No Seminar

13 February

Deirdre McFeely:
‘Dion Boucicault’s Robert Emmet: Myth and Reality’
&
Erin Gallagher:
‘Representing the People: Perception and Community in the
Harlem and Dublin Renaissances’

20 February

Guest Speaker
Prof Clair Wills, Queen Mary University of London

27 February

Gerald Dawe:
'"Points West": New Poems'

Gerald Dawe, in conversation with Maria Johnston, talks about

and reads from a work in progress

This will be followed by the end of term wine reception.

All are Welcome!