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IASIL 2004 - IASIL in Ireland

20-23 July 2004

Contacts

Graduate Fellowship Winners

Publication

2004 - literary anniversaries

Galway and Irish Writing

Registration (concluded)

Accommodation (no longer available)

Paper and Panel Proposals (no longer being accepted)

 

 

 

 

Registered Speakers (update 27 June 2004)

 

Below is a preliminary list of speakers whose registration forms have been received. Some forms are still being processd, so the list is incomplete. However, if you are NOT listed here, and think you should be, please send an email to conference@iasil.org as soon as possible.

Similarly, if your listing contains errors, please email us as soon as possible.

This list does not include delegates to the conference who are not delivering papers, of which there are 40+

LIST OF REGISTERED SPEAKERS TO IASIL 2004
27 June 2004

• Dr. Nicholas Allen (Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) "The Proper Word: The Writings of Gerald Dawe"
• Dr. Asier Altuna-Garcia de Salazar (Research Fellow, National University of Ireland, Galway) "Gleanings from the Basque in Irish Literature"
• Professor Brian Arkins (National University of Ireland, Galway), "Yeats and Religion"
• Dr. Andrew Auge (Professor, Loras College) "'To Send a Shiver through Unitel': Imperial Philosophy and the Resistant Word in Muldoon's Madoc"
• Professor Donatella Abbate Badin (Professor, University of Turin) "Writing Italy, Writing Irelad, Writing with Irony: Lady Morgan"
• Dr. Malcolm Ballin (Research Associate, Cardiff University) "'Not to Mention PaddyKelly's Budget: Some Periodicals that Bloom could have Read on June 16 2004"
• Miss Sukanya Basu (Graduate Student, University of Aberdeen) "'Stretched between Politics and Transcendence': Seamus Heaney and Osip Mandelstam"
• Dr. Francesca Benatti (Teaching Assistant, National University of Ireland, Galway) "Irish Patriots and Schottish Adventurers: Writing Ireland in the Irish Penny Journal, 1840-1"
• Davide Benini (Graduate Student, University of Verona) "Voices of Loneliness: The Influence of James Joyce on the work of Patrick McCabe"
• Dr. Csilla Bertha (Associate Professor, University of Debrecen) "Performance at the Edge of or Beyond Life: The Figure of the Artist in Friel's Performances and Kilroy's The Shape of Metal"
• Dr. Patrick Bixby (Assistant Professor, Arizona State University West) "What Kind of Man are You? Beckett, Anthropology, and Cultural Authenticity"
• Dr. Ljiljana Bogoeva-Sedlar (Professor, University of Arts, Belgrade) "Seamus Heaney's Cure at Troy"
• Ms. Claire Bracken (Graduate Student, University College Dublin) "Postmodern Jouissance: Sexual Difference Paradigms and Irish Feminist Scholarship"
• Dr. Barbara Brown (Professor, Retired) "Text and Context: Five Poems by Richard Murphy"
• Professor Margaret Burke (Professor, Hofstra University) “Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill”
• Dr Mary Burke (University of Connecticut), "The “Tinker” figure in Irish writing past, present and future"

• Dr. Patrick Burke (Lecturer, St. Patrick's College, Dublin) "Professional Amateurs"
• Ms. Ann Butler (, Boston College) "The Abbey Theatre Years of Una Troy (Elizabeth Connor): Irish Playwright and Novelist"
• Dr. James M. Cahalan (Professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania) "Mercier's Irish Comic Traditionas a Touchstone of Irish Cultural and Bilingual Studies"
• Ms. Susan Cahill (Graduate Student, University College Dublin) "'Once Upon a Time': Speech, Silences, and Fairy Tales in Eilis Ni Dhuibhne's Fiction"
• Dr. Eamonn Cantwell (Retired, None) "W.B. Yeats's 'Where There is Nothing'"
• Dr. Rui Carvalho Homem (Associate Professor, University of Oporto, Portugal) "Culture of Shadows: Poetry, Rewriting, and Ciaran Carson's Inferno"
• Ms. Enrica Cerquoni (Graduate Student, University College Dublin) “Travelling through space, time and states of (non-)being: aesthetic and ideological concerns in Operating Theatre’s Passades”
• Dr. Heather Clark (Assistant Professor, Marlboro College, Vermont) "Recalling Aran: Islands in Northern Irish Poetry"
• Blaithin Conneely-Allain (Junior Lecturer, University of Brest, France) "The Illusion of Time in Irish Writing"
• Dr. Claire Connolly (Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University) "'Vain fictions of distress and love': the Poetry of Mary Tighe"
• Dr. Elena Cotta Ramusino (Lecturer, University of Pavia) "In the Air: Seamus Heaney's Stepping Free into Space"
• Dr. Mike Cronin (Visiting Research Fellow, National University of Ireland, Galway) "Soccer and Ireland"
• Mr. Sean Crosson (Graduate Student, National University of Ireland, Galway) "The Performance of Irish Traditional Music and Song in the Poetry of Thomas Kinsella"
• Ms. Zsuzsanna Csikai (Graduate Student, University of Pecs) "Otherness or Irishness: Two Irish Versions of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya"
• Miss Irene De Angelis (Graduate Student, University of Turin) "Towards Zeami's 'Flower': The Spirit of Noh in Yeats's 'At the Hawk's Well'"
• Dr. Paul Delaney (Lecturer, Trinity College Dublin) "A Tale of Becoming: Seumas O'Kellys 'The Weaver's Grave'"
• Dr. Elisabeth Delattre (Teacher, Université d'Artois) "'A fusillade of question-marks': (Re)presenting the present or the poet as a chronicler in The Irish for No by Ciaran Carson"
• Dr John Devitt, (Mater Dei), A Reconsideration of Pearse’s Plays
• Ms. Julie Donovan (Graduate Student, George Washington University) "How Sydney Owenson Packaged Irish History"
• Mr. James Drewett (Student, Bath Spa University College) "Grotesque Realism: Reading Rabelais in Roddy Doyle's A Star Called Henry"
• Laura Eldred (Graduate Student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) "Martin McDonagh's Blend of Tradition and Horrific Innovation"
• Mr. Jinghua Fan (Graduate Student, National University of Singapore) "In the light of what she sees how he sees: Eavan Boland's Painterly Poetics"
• Ms. Borcsa Faragó (Graduate Student, University College Dublin) "'Even the Grass Grows at an Alien Angle': Invisible Immigrants of Ireland"
• Dr. Tyler Farrell (Professor, Northland College) "Memoirs of an Age: The View of Mid-Century Dublin from Ryan, Montague and Cronin"
• Dr. James Farrelly (Professor, University of Dayton) "Singing 'Of what is past, passing, or to come': The Apocalyptic Vision of Yeats's Purgatory"
• Chris Fauske (Assistant Dean, Salem State College) "Misunderstanding what Swift Understood: Ireland, Coinage and the Literature of the Age"
• Dore Fischer (Lecturer, Dublin Institute of Technology) "'Suddenly lost at being home': Biculturalism and Interculturality in Hugo Hamilton's The Speckled People and Blake Morrison's Things my Mother never told me"
• Professor Joan FitzPatrick Dean (University of Missouri-Kansas City) “Liminal Vagrants in the Alternative Dramatic Revival: the travellers of Padraic Colum, Rutherford Mayne and Seamus O'Kelly”
• Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick (Lecturer, Waterford Institute of Technology) "Muide Eire?: The Dramatic Representation of the New Ireland"
• Mr. Eoin Flannery (Graduate Student, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick) "Necessary Fictions: The liminal drama of Colum McCann's Songdogs and This Side of Brightness"
• Dr. Hedda Friberg (Assistant Professor, MidSweden University) "John Banville's Shroud"
• Ms. Karen Frizzell (Graduate Student, University of Missouri-Columbia) "A 'Rare and Fine Sister': The Quest in Paula Meehan's Dharmakaya"
• Ms. Mika Funahashi (Lecturer, Aoyama Gakuin University) "Analysing the Wounds Caused by the Mother: Marina Carr's Theatre and a Short Story"
• Ms. Maria Grazia Furnari (Graduate Student, University of Bologna) "Someone is trying to kill me and I think it's my country"
• Dott. Gioia Gamerra (Graduate Student, Universita degli Studi di Firenze) "'Memories [as] a mixture of stories, truths, untruths and other people's memories': Narrative and cinematographic strategies in Passion Play by Conal Creedon"
• Dr. Irene Gilsenan Nordin (Assistant Professor, Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies, Sweden) "The Element of the Spiritual in the Poetry of Eilean Ni Chuilleanain"
• Professor S.E. Gontarski (Florida State): Reading Beckett through Beckett's Reading
• Professor Nicholas Grene (Professor, Trinity College Dublin) "Irish Drama and the occlusion of inference"
• Dr Rosalie Rahal Haddad (University of São Paulo) “Bernard Shaw – Past, Present and Future”
• Dr. Derek Hand (Lecturer, St. Patrick's College, Dublin) Debating on John Banville panel
• Dr. Heidi Hansson (Senior Lecturer, Umea University, Sweden) "Selina Bunbury, the Canon and Locational Feminism"
• Professor Peter Harris (Professor, State University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) "Shadows from the Past: Sean O'Casey and the Abbey"
• Dr. David A Hatch (Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University) "Beckett in Transition: 'Three Dialogues,' Little Magazines, and Post-War Parisian Aesthetic Debate"
• Dr. Maureen Hawkins (Assistant Professor, University of Lethbridge) "Split Ends: The Modern Tragicomic Structure of The Playboy of the Western World"
• Dr. Charlotte Headrick (Professor, Oregon State University) Reaching from the Past into the Future: Patricia Burke Brogan's Eclipsed
• Dr. Kathleen Heininge (Assistant Professor, George Fox University) "Incorporating the Past to Present a new Future"
• Professor John Hildebidle (Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Friel's America
• Elin Holmsten (Graduate Student, Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies, Sweden) "'Words/That Overwhelm Me': Signs of Encounters in Medbh McGuckian's Poetry"
• Dr. Werner Huber (Professor, Chemnitz University of Technology) "'More gallous stories and dirty deeds': The Un-Irishing of Martin McDonagh: Some Observations on The Pillowman"
• Professor Noriko Ito (Professor, Tezukayama University, Japan) "The Lake in McGahern's Writing"
• Dr. Laura Izarra (Assistant Professor, University of Sao Paolo, Brazil) "Disrupting cultural identities: fictional memoirs as historiographic critique?"
• Dr. Kathleen Jacquette (Associate Professor, Farmingdale State University of New York) "Images of Irish Women: Memories and Memoir"
• Dr. Susan Johnston Graf (Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University) "One Last Glimpse of Twilight: AE's Divine Vision of 1904"
• Dr. Susan Joseph (Lecturer, Howard University) "Occawsions where the daughters of myth sang for sailors: Gender and classics in Eavan Boland's Poetry"
• Ms. Stephane Jousni (Lecturer, Rennes 2 University, France) "Joyce's Children and Joyce's Dublin one century later"
• Dr. Eileen Kearney (Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University) "Crossing Over: Stained Glass at Samhain"
• Ms. Marilyn Kelly (Lecturer, University of Wollongong) "A Novel View of the Roman Catholic Priesthood"
• Professor Ann Kelly (Professor, Howard University) "Gulliver's Talking to Horses: Evidence or Madness or Sanity? A new look at Book IV"
• Professor Michael Kenneally (Professor, Concordia University, Montreal) "Crossing into Exile: Landscape and the Construction of Identity in Brian Moore's The Luck of Ginger Coffey"
• Dr. Sean Kennedy (Teaching Assistant, National University of Ireland, Galway) "'Life lay smiling before us': Beckett and the End of Protestat Ascendancy"
• Dr John Kenny (National University of Ireland, Galway) Connoisseur of Silences: Banville and the Belief in Autonomy
• Mr. Brad Kent (Graduate Student, Concordia University, Montreal) "There's Something Else About Mary: Irish Censorship and the Banning of Kate O'Brien's Mary Lavelle"
• Ms. Edwina Keowne (Graduate Student, Trinity College Dublin) "Elizabeth Bowen: Travel, Gender and National Identity in The House in Paris"
• Ms. Rina Kim (Graduate Student, University of Warwick) "Severing Connection with Ireland: Women and the Irish Free State in Beckett's Writing"
• Dr. Youngmin Kim (Professor, Dongguk University, Seoul) "Rereading Yeats Reading the History of the Soul: From Typology to Typography"
• Professor Mary C. King (Visiting Professor, National College of Ireland) "A Synge for our times: Yeats's enquiring man revisited"
• Ms. Chiaki Kojima (Graduate Student, University of Toky) "From the Irish Drama to the Japanese New Drama II: Shoyo Matsui's Adaptation and Reformation"
• Dr. Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos (, University of Sao Paolo, Brazil) "Denis Johnston's Radio and Television Drama"
• Mr. Gergely Kovacs (Graduate Student, University of Debrecen) "The Goddess and the Angel: Real and Fantastic Space and Place in Jennifer Johnston's Two Moons"
• Dr. Peter Kuch (Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales) "The Abbey Down-Under in 1922"
• Dr. Maria Kurdi (Professor, University of Pecs) "Spatialising the Renewal of Female Subjectivity in Marie Jones's Women on the Verge of HRT"
• Michal Lachman (Graduate Student, University of Lodz, Poland) "Traumatic Spaces in the plays of Marina Carr, Martin McDonagh, and Conor McPherson"
• Professor Jose Lanters (Professor, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) "Moving Stories: Life Writing by Irish Traveller Women"
• Dr. Antoinette Larkin (Associate Professor, University of Cincinatti) "Eilis Ni Dhuibhne Re-Presents Ireland: William Leech, Edith Somervile and 'Nomads Seek the Pavilions of Bliss on the Slopes of Middle Age"
• Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka (Graduate Student, University College Dublin) "Fanfiction in Ireland"
• Dr. Helen Lojek (Professor, Boise State University) "Observe the Sons of Ulster: Historical Stages"
• Irene Lucchitti (Graduate Student, University of Wollongong) "Tomas O'Crohan: Yesterday's Hero?"
• Dr. Patricia A. Lynch (Lecturer, University of Limerick) "Language usage and social categorisation in Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow"
• Miss Louise Mabille (Graduate Student, University of Pretoria) "Wilde's Voices, Nietzsche's masks: A Portrait of the Artist as that which is no longer Man"
• Dr. Liam Mac Mathuna (Registrar, St. Patrick's College, Dublin) "Seadna: New Medium and Novel Message"
• Dr. Eamon Maher (Lecturer, IT Tallaght) "John McGahern's Fictions: A Chronicle of Four Decades of Change in Ireland"
• Ms. Holly Maples (Graduate Student, University of Michigan) "Performing the Real: Realism and Nationalism in Irish Drama"
• Miss Jessica March (Graduate Student, St. John's College, Oxford) "Conflict and Identity Formation in Rearden Conner's A Plain Tale from the Bogs and Hugo Hamilton's The Speckled People"
• Dr. Mary M.F. Massoud (, Ain Shams University, Egypt) "Tate's Forgotten Anniversary"
• Professor Amal Mazhar (Professor, Cairo University) "Self/Other in Past and Present Irish Writing: The Cases of G.B. Shaw and Frank McGuinness"
• Dr. Conci Mazzullo (, ) "Station Ireland: Passion Play According to Conal Creedon"
• Ms. Rita McCann (Research Officer, Dublin City University) "Ireland in the world: Translation, Nation, Identity"
• Ms Cathy McGlyn, (Mary Immaculate College) “Joyce and Narrative Theory”
• Professor Lucy McDiarmid (Professor, Villanova University) "A Screening of AQUA by Nina FitzPatrick; Introduced by Lucy McDiarmid"
• Mr. Martin McKinsey (Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire) "Third Space of Hellenism in Contemporary Irish Poetry"
• Mr. James McNaughton (Graduate Student, University of Michigan) "Beckett, History, and German Fascism"
• Dr. Gerardine Meaney (Lecturer, University College Dublin) "Writing the Unread: Canons, Anthologies and Feminist Editing"
• Jodie Medd (Assistant Professor, Carleton University, Canada) "'Patterns of the Posible': Irish Historical Fictions and Future Queer Imaginings in Jamie O'Neill's At Swim, Two Boys"
• Dr. Ninian Mellamphy (Professor Emeritus, University of Western Ontario) "Reading Edna O'Brien of the 1990s in the Light of the 90s Fiction of Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood"
• Ms. Sylvie Mikowski (Professor, Université de Reims-Champagne-Ardenne) "Maria Edgeworth's Castlerackrent and the Outside of the Text"
• Nobue Miyake (Teacher, Shitennoji High School) "What Yeats Saw in the Tower"
• Dr. Frank Molloy (Senior Lecturer, Charles Sturt University) "Comedy and Cats: The Lieutenant of Inishmore comes to Sydney"
• Professor Caitriona Moloney (Professor, Bradley University) "History, Myth, and Memory in Eilis Ni Dhuibhne's short fiction"
• Dr. Sinead Mooney (Lecturer, National University of Ireland, Galway) "Beckett Reading 'Recent Irish Poetry'"
• Professor Donald E. Morse (Professor, University of Debrecen) "Dolly West's Kitchen: The Daring Drama of Frank McGuinness"
• Mr. Raymond Mullen (Student, University of Ulster) "The Disintegration of the Stage/Stock Irishman in Beckett's Early Fiction"
• Dr. Maureen Murphy (Professor, Hofstra University) "Siobhan McKenna's St. Joan"
• Dr. John L. Murphy (Professor, DeVry University) "Aiseiri and the 'Daily Uprising' in Hugo Hamilton's The Speckled People"
• Dr Paul Murphy (Lecturer, Queen’s University Belfast), “Theatre and Nation: Cutting the Mobius Strip”
• Ms. Paula Murphy (Graduate Student, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick) "Mythic and Modern: the Drama of Marina Carr"
• Mr. Richard Murphy (Graduate Student, Boston College) "Troubles with the Bildungsroman: The Country Girls"
• Professor Ciaran Murray (Professor, Chuo University, Japan) "Heaven Blazing into the Head: The Background to Satori in Yeats"
• Mr. Tony Murray (Lecturer, London Metropolitan University) "Curious Streets: Desmond Hogan's London Irish Stories"
• Dr. Munira Hamud Mutran (Professor, University of Sao Paolo, Brazil) "The Bacchae's nightmare and its significance for Ireland"
• Dr. Kenneth Nally (, National University of Ireland, Galway) "'Celebrating Confusion': Frank McGuinness's Formal Strategies"
• Miss Claire Nally (Graduate Student, University of Manchester) "Yeat's Forging/Forgery of National Identity: the 'Giraldus' Portrait of A Vision"
• Dr. Taura Napier (Professor, Wingate University) "Lady Gregory's 'Emigrant's Notebook': Autobiography, Drama and the Inception of the Irish Literary Revival"
• Dr. Radmila Nastic (p, University of Srpsko, Sarajevo) "Irishmen with a Diference: Irish Imagination and the Aesthetics of the Political in the Dramatic Work of W.B. Yeats and G.B. Shaw"
• Dr. Riona Ni Fhrighil (Lecturer, St. Patrick's College, Dublin) "The language of music and the music of language: An exploration of Gearoid Mac Lochlainn's Poetry"
• Roisin Ni Ghairbhi (National University of Ireland, Galway) "'Confused, derivative, lyrical, hysterical posturing?': Michael Hartnett and 'A Farewell to English"
• Dr Lesa Ní Mhunghaile (National University of Ireland, Galway), “Charlotte Brooke: Faithful translator or censor in Reliques of Irish Poetry (1789)?”
• Ms. Kalene Nix-Kenefick (Graduate Student, University College Cork)
• Mr. Jerry Nolan (Free-lance Writer, British Association of Irish Studies) "Edward Martyn's path from Greece to Ireland"
• Dr. Caoimhghin O Croidheain (Researcher, Dublin City University) "Ireland in the world: Translation, Nation, Identity"
• Miss Anne Oakman (Graduate Student, Queen's University, Belfast) "'Which of You Holds the Pen?' The Mysteries and Dupliciies of Somerville and Ross's Collaboration"
• Mr. Paul O'Brien (, ) "The Abbey Theatre: Collaboration and rejection in the early plays of Sean O'Casey"
• Dr. Eugene O'Brien (Senior Lecturer, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick) "Apprentice Mages and Arch-Poets: Towards a Conflation of the Thought of Yeats and Heaney"
• Dr. Maureen O'Connor (National University of Ireland, Galway) "Edna O'Brien, Irish Dandy"
• Dr. Gearoid O'Flaherty (, St. Patrick's College, Dublin) "From Frivolous Entertainer to Social Martyr: Society's Continuing Affinity with Oscar Wilde"
• Roisin O'Gorman (Graduate Student, University of Minnesota) "Ruptures in the Script: Laughter in Contemporary Irish Theatre"
• Ms. June O'Sullivan (Graduate Student, University College Cork) "Mis(Fits): Models of Female Development in the Writing of Edna O'Brien and Alice Munro"
• Dr. Tina O'Toole (Research Fellow, Queen's University, Belfast) "The Munster Women Writers Project: Locating the 'Absent Presence' in Irish Literary History"
• Dr. Ann Owens Weekes (Associate Professor, University of Arizona) "Re-membering the Past to Construct the Future"
• Mr. Mark Phelan (Lecturer, Queen's University, Belfast) "Ulster as 'Other': The Black North and National Theatre"
• Dr. Ondrej Pilny (Senior Lecturer, Charles University Prague) "Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman as Puppet Theatre"
• Dr. Alexandra Poulain (Senior Lecturer, University of Paris IV-Sorbonne) "'O Paradiso': Talking, Writing, Singing in Tom Murphy's The Gigli Concert"
• Dr. Mark Quigley (Professor, University of Nevada) "Unnaming the Subject: Samuel Beckett and Colonial Alterity"
• Nancy E. Raftery (Instructor, Camden County College) "Lennox Robinson"
• Dr. Victoria Ramirez (Associate Professor, Weber State University) "'The Tale Differs with the Teller': Edna O'Brien's Narrative Dialogism in House of Splendid Isolation"
• Dr. Maureen Reddy (Professor, Rhode Island College) "Reading and Writing Race in Ireland: Roddy Doyle's Serial Publications"
• Mrs. Maeve Redmond (Graduate Student, University of Surrey, Roehampton) "Country Girl, London Boy: Parental, filial, and cultural influences on the life writings of Edna O'Brien and Carlo Gebler"
• Professor Thomas Redshaw (Professor, University of St. Thomas) "Liam Miller and the Making of The Great Táin"
• Eglantina Remport (, Eotuos Lorand University, Budapest) "'See a play or a picture': Lady Gregory's Pictorial Spectacle"
• Ms. Jeannette E. Riley (Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts) "'So I could say Mine. My Own': Altering the Cartography of the Irish Poem"
• Dr. Julie-Ann Robson (, University of Sydney) "Charmides: The Love that Dare Not Speak its Name"
• Ms. Zoraide Rodrigues Carrasco de Mesquita (Graduate Student, Universidade de Sao Paulo) "Bringing the past into present day Ireland"
• Ms. Aida Rosende Perez (Graduate Student, University of Vigo) "Re/possessing the female body in Ireland: Cindy Cummings, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, and Amelia Stein's Triur Ban"
• Rosemarie Rowley (Graduate Student, Senior College, Dun Laoghaire) "'The Annihilation of the Flesh-Rotted Word': Kavanagh's Real Trajectory"
• Miss Irina Ruppo (Graduate Student, National University of Ireland, Galway) "Synge's Playboy of the Western World and Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge"
• Mary Ann Ryan (Graduate Student, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) "Ironic Ramifications: Registering the Eruptions in and around Vincent Woods's At the Black Pig's Dyke"
• Mr. Futoshi Sakauchi (Graduate Student, University College Dublin) "Yeats's At the Hawk's Well in 1916"
• Miss Loredana Salis (Graduate Student, University of Ulster) "Edna's Euripides: Ritual and Language in Edna O'Brien's Iphigenia"
• Ms. Akiko Satake (Assistant Professor, Rikkyo University) "The Abbey's Tradition of Folk Drama"
• Mark Schreiber (Graduate Student, International University Bremen, Germany) "'Bedbound Beauty Queens': Negotiating Space and Gender in Contemporary Irish Drama"
• Ms. Rosalinde Schut (Graduate Student, Trinity College Dublin) "Yeats, Pirandello, and Italy"
• Dr. Hedwig Schwall (Senior Lecturer, Kuleuven/Kulak) "Mirror Mirrored onMirror is all the Show: The figure of the Double in John Banville's Novels"
• Ms. Chiara Sciarrino (Graduate Student, IULM, Milan) "Intertextuality, Interpretation or Translation and Fiction in Tom Murphy's The Gigli Concert"
• Mrs. Anne Scott (, University of Glasgow) "The Poetics of Writing and Drawing in The Aran Islands by John Synge and Jack Yeats"
• Ms. Cary Shay (Graduate Student, University of Kent) "Courting the Muse: Aesthetic Standards in the Work of Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill"
• Professor Brandie Siegfried (Associate Professor, Brigham Young University) "Nationalist Glosses in Irish School Editions of Hamlet and Yeats's Player Queen"
• Dr Melissa Sihra (Lecturer, Queen’s University Belfast), “Breaking the Cycle: Imaginative Spaces of Excess and Transformation”
• Mr. Daniel Smith (Graduate Student, Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies) "'…a day on which nothing of importance happened': Bloody Sunday and Brian Friel's The Freedom of the City"
• Ms. Sandra Mary Stevens (Graduate Student, University of Sao Paolo, Brazil) "Camelot comes to Wexford: Billy Roche's The Cavalcaders"
• Dr. Margaret M. Strain (Associate Professor, University of Dayton) "'Renouncing Chance': Salvation and the Sacred in Brian Friel's The Faith Healer"
• Ms. Carmen Szabo (Graduate Student, University College Dublin) "The Liminality of the House as Political Space in Stewart Parker's Pentecost"
• Dr. Giovanna Tallone (Temporary Professor, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan) "Past, Present, and Future: Patterns of Otherness in Eilis Ni Dhuibhne's Fiction"
• Reiko Taniue (Graduate Student, Kansai Gaidai University) "Samuel Beckett's All that Fall: Enter the Great Mother"
• Dr. Magda V.F. Tolentino (Professor, Universidade Federal de Sao Joao del Rei, Brazil) "The Irish Stereotype in Ballads"
• Professor Naoko Toraiwa (Professor, Meiji University, Tokyo) "On Vona Groarke's Flight"
• Professor Masazumi Toraiwa (Professor Emeritus, Waseda University) "Reading 'The lack Tower', the Last Poem of W.B. Yeats"
• Ms. Rebecca Troeger (Graduate Student, Boston College) "The Caged Minute: Louis MacNeice and the Autobiographical Impulse"
• Mr. Stanley van der Ziel (Graduate Student, University College Dublin) "The Aesthetics of Redemption: John McGahern's That They May Face the Rising Sun"
• Ms. Christa Velten (Retired, ) "'Am I a con man?': Brian Friel's idea of the self-reflective artist, viewed in the light of Theodor W. Adorno's aesthetic theory"
• Clare Wallace (Lecturer, Charles University Prague) "Solitary Micronarratives and Language Games in Conor McPherson's Drama"
• Dr. Beth Wightman (Assistant Professor, California State University, Northridge) "Lost in Space? Architecture, Geography, and Culture in Eilis ni Dhuibhne's The Bray House"
• Ms. Rebecca Wilson (National University of Ireland, Galway) "The Triumph of Tradition 1941-1991: Themes and motifs of melodrama spanning half a century""
• Ms. Amy Witherbee (Graduate Student, Boston College) "Northern Ireland's Impossible Eye/I"
• Ms. Emily Wolahan (Graduate Student, University of Houston, Texas) "An Alternative Ideal: Aleel's Role in 'The Countess Cathleen'"
• Ms. Joanna Wydenbach (Graduate Student, Queen's University, Belfast) "Early Twentieth Century Irish Women's Fiction: Call on an Alternative Perspective"
• Dr. Hyangsoon Yi (Assistant Professor, University of Georgia) "Writing Ireland in Colonial Korea"
• Professor Wolfgang Zach (Professor, Innsbruck University, Austria) "Jonathan Swift and the Anglicization of Ireland"

 

 

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