IASIL 2005 Charles University, Prague
Ireland – A Global Village?
25-28 July 2005

Accepted Speakers

Accepted Speakers (update 14 July 2005)

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LIST OF ACCEPTED SPEAKERS, 14 July 2004

Abbass, Sahar A. (Helwan University, Cairo), “Looking for Ireland Elsewhere: A Study of Perspective and Form of Tom Murphy's Bailegangaire and Conor McPherson's The Weir in the Light of a ‘Globalised Ireland’”.

Abbate Badin, Donatella (University of Turin), “From a Nation of Villains to a Land of Patriots: Irish Views of Italy”.

Alemdaroglu, Nuvid (Celal Bayar University), “Martin McDonagh’s Critically Humanist Insight into Terrorism: The Lieutenant of Inishmore”.

Allen, Nicholas (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), “Yeats and A Vision after Empire”.

Anderson, Dustin (Florida State University), “Forging and Forgetting: Fraudulence, Postnationalism, and Finnegans Wake”.

Andreu, Cristina (Universitat Rovira i Virgili Tarragona), “Shifting Cultural Identities in Maeve Binchy's Dublin Novels”.

Arrington, Lauren (University College Dublin), “Brian Friel’s Pietas: Integrating Revisionism and Post-colonialism in Translations”.

Arrowsmith, Aidan (Staffordshire University), “Fantasy Ireland: Cultural Memory and the Irish Diaspora”.

Atkinson, William (Appalachian State University), “Samuel Beckett: The Last Gothicist”.

Ballin, Malcolm (Cardiff University), “Media and Genre: The Review in Dublin and London: 1668-1968”.

Balzano, Wanda (Wake Forest University), “Maeve Brennan’s Transnational Identity and ‘The Barrel of Rumours’”.

Barnes, Christopher (Trinity College Dublin), “From Derry to the Congo: Political Position and Geographic Location in Ronan Bennett’s The Catastrophist”.

Barry, Liz (Warwick University), “Voyeurism and the Ethics of Narrative Realism in Beckett's Prose Fiction”.

Batten, Guinn (Washington University, St. Louis), “Contemporary Irish Poetry: Poetic Form and the Psychic Life of Power”.

Bebiano, Adriana (University of Coimbra), “An Irishman in Africa: Ronan Bennett’s Catastrophist”.

Bendelli, Giuliana (Università Cattolica di Milano), “From Brendan Kennelly's The Florentines to I Fiorentini: Trans-Navigatio (Sancti) Brendani”.

Bénéjam, Valérie (Université de Nantes), “Parallax Opoponax”.

Benini, Davide (Università di Verona), “The deeper I got into the inferno, the more I walked”: An Analysis of Carson’s Translation of Dante’s The Inferno”.

Berchild, Christopher (Indiana State University), “Mapping Alternative Irish Space: Dermot Bolger and the Irish (Sub)Urban Utopian Wasteland”.

Bertha, Csilla (University of Debrecen), “Creation and Destruction - The Artist as Parent: Thomas Kilroy’s The Shape of Metal”.

Blake, James J. (Séamus) (Fordham University NY), “"Biography and Autobiography in Irish Gaelic Today"”.

Bracken, Claire (University College Dublin.), “‘Becoming-Irish-Woman’: The Fiction of Anne Enright and the Poetry of Catherine Walsh”.

Burgess, Mary (University of Notre Dame), “The Orange Confessional: Northern Protestant Identity and Autobiography”.

Burke, Margaret G. (Hofstra University), “Framing Masculinity in the Poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill ”.

Burke, Martin J. (City University of New York), “Daidra from Georgia: Thomas Holley Chivers’ The Sons of Usna”.

Burke, Patrick (St Patrick’s College, Dublin City University), “Consistency and Variation in the Apparent Politics of Friel’s Plays”.

Burleigh, David (Ferris University, Japan), “Two Japanese Fans: Helen and Sam Waddell and the Land of Their Birth”.

Busch, Trilby (Normandale Community College), “Leprechauns Jack into the Matrix: Contemporary Science Fiction in Ireland and America”.

Caffrey, Colm (Dublin City University), “See panel”.

Cahill, Susan (University College Dublin), “Corporeal Configurations in the Fiction of Anne Enright”.

Carpenter, Andrew (University College Dublin), “Tri-lingualism in Late Seventeenth-Century Ireland: The Evidence of Verse Satires”.

Carvalho Homem, Rui (University of Oporto), “‘Old fathers’, Old Masters: Canon, Self, and Dutch Painting in Contemporary Irish Poetry”.

Cerquoni, Enrica (University College Dublin), “Neither 'Local' nor 'Global': A Phenomenological Approach to Conall Morrison's Production of Synge's Riders to the Sea”.

Chircop, Karl (University of Malta), “Eveline and Mommina by the Window at Twilight: On the Window Motif in Eveline by James Joyce and Leonora Addio! by Luigi Pirandello”.

Clark, Heather (Marlboro College in Vermont), ““A brief new dawn”: The Ulster Renaissance”.

Collins, Lucy (University of Lancaster) “Reading History: National Cultures in the Poetry of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin”.

Conneely, Mairéad (University of Limerick), “Synge, Lawless and Inis Meáin: Their Global Village”.

Coughlan, Patricia (University College Cork), “‘Home is a place in the mind’: Maeve Brennan and The Failure of Domesticity”.

Cregan, David (Villanova University), “Incarnating the Mystical: Liminality and the Performance of the Spiritual in the Work of Sebastian Barry”.

Cronin, Finola (University College Dublin), “Pleasure and Pain: Lyrical violence in Fabulous Beast’s Giselle”.

Curtis, Keiron (University of Wales, Swansea), “P.S. O’Hegarty and the Anglo-Irish Literary Tradition”.

D’Arcy, Michael (University of Western Ontario), ““The frog-spawn of a blind-man’s ditch”: Beckett, Yeats, and the Corruption of Culture”.

D’hoker, Elke (K.U.Leuven), “‘I did it’: Female Narrators and Unreliability in Three Irish Novels”.

De Angelis, Irene (University of Turin), ““For Saké? Irish Whiskey.” Andrew Fitzsimons and His Representation of Japan”.
de Petris, Carla (Università di Verona), “‘Translation as a Form of Reading’: The Use of Dante in Contemporary Irish Poetry, Yeats, Heaney, Carson et alii”.

Dean, Joan FitzPatrick (University of Missouri-Kansas City), “Britain’s Lord Chamberlain and the Irish Literary Revival”.

Delattre, Elisabeth (Université d’Artois), “Tradition and the (re)writing of poetry in Roman Script by Derek Mahon”.

Devlin, Paul (University of Ulster), “‘A Lesson in Ordinary Life’: the Intentional Ethics and Ethical Reception of Thomas Carnduff’s Workers”.

Dixon, Ros (National University of Ireland, Galway), “‘Oh Chekhov! Thou art translated! : A Study of Brian Friel’s Irish Versions of Chekhov’s Dramas”.

Donoghue, Denis (New York University), “Yeats’s “The Nineteenth Century and After”, and After”.

Doody, Margaret (University of Notre Dame), “Ireland and the Image of the Woman in Swift and Sheridan”.

Dougherty McMichael, Jessica (University of Notre Dame), “Wild Irish and Noble Savages: Interrogations of Race and History in Contemporary Irish and Native American Literatures”.

Dumitrescu, Alexandra (Babes-Bolyai University), “Bootstrapping Finnegans Wake in Search for Truth”.

Duncan, Dawn (Concordia College), “From Beirut to Belfast: Conal Morrison Stages Issues of Justice”.

Edwards, Heather (University of Notre Dame), “Modernity Through Movement: Irish Women’s Experiences of Modernity in the Works of Rosa Mulholland and Elizabeth Bowen”.

Facchinello, Monica (University of York), “Reinventing Ireland through a Dialogic Perspective of Local and Global in Banville’s Novella The Newton Letter”.

Faragó, Borbála (University College Dublin), “Brushed Out Words: The Ethics of Linguistic Care in the Poetry of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin”.

Filipova, Filipina (University of Sofia), “How Does Gulliver Travel in Bulgaria?”

Fischerová, Jana (University College Dublin), “Ante-Room as an Alternative in Kate O’Brien’s The Ante-Room and Mary Lavelle”.

Fish, Harold (University of Mainz), “Music in Dancing at Lugnasa: The Play and the Film”.

Fitzgerald-Hoyt, Mary (Siena College), “Inventing Italy: William Trevor’s My House in Umbria and The Story of Lucy Gault”.

Fitzpatrick, Lisa (Institute of Technology, Waterford), “Stage Irishry: Performing Irishness on the Contemporary Canadian Stage”.

Fleming, Deborah (Ashland University), “Freedom of the Will and Dionysian Regeneration in W. B. Yeats’s Plays on the Crucifixion and Resurrection”.

Foster, Gavin (University of Notre Dame), “The Politics of Respectability in the Irish Civil War”.

Fox, Christopher (University of Notre Dame), CHAIR: “Revolutionary, Modern and Post Modern Identities”.

Frawley, Oona (Queen’s University Belfast), “Spenser’s Trace: Cultural Memory and Cognition”.

Fuchs, Dieter (University of Vienna), “‘A Portrait of the Artist as an Old Dog’: Joyce, Lucian and Menippus”.

Furomoto, Taketoshi (Aichi-gakuin University), “Enlargement of the Context of Irish Literature—Some Scottish Interest in the Things Irish”.

Garcia, Antonio (University of Houston), “Beckett's Shit-Starter: The Narrator and Coprophilic Drive in First Love”.

Gibbons, Luke (University of Notre Dame), “Gael Skulls: Race and Celticism in Brian Friel’s The Home Place”.

Gibson, Matthew (University of Surrey), “Jane Anne Cranstoun, Countess Purgstall: A Possible Source for Le Fanu’s
Carmilla”.

Gillis, Alan (University of Ulster at Coleraine), “Repetition and Reification in the Recent Verse of Paul Muldoon”.

Gleitman, Claire (Ithaca College), ““In the dank margins of things”: Whistling Psyche and the Illness of Empire”.

Gontarski, S.E. (Florida State University), “Samuel Beckett’s ‘Keyhole Drama’: Voyeurism and the Scopic Drive”.

Grene, Nicholas (Trinity College Dublin), RESPONDENT: “Global Issues in Irish Drama”.

Groden, Michael (University of Western Ontario), “Ulysses: A Biography”.

Haddad, Rosalie Rahal (University of São Paulo), “Bernard Shaw and the Demystification of Stereotypes”.

Hanson, Zachary (Florida State University), “R.I.P.: Beckett’s Investigations of Nationalist Forgery in ‘Recent Irish Poetry’”.

Harrington, John P. (RensselaerTroy, NY), “Lord Dunsany, “The Abbey Style,” and Lower Manhattan”.

Heininge, Kathleen (George Fox University), “Transculturation and Geraldine Aron: The Irish Diaspora in Africa”.

Hennessey, Kate (University of Notre Dame), “Mad Kings, Mobsters, and Mai-hem: Ancient Irish Legends in Contemporary Irish Theatre”.

Hildebidle, John (MIT), “Seamus Heaney: The Shame of Global Fame”.

Holdridge, Jeff (Wake Forest University), “Topographies of Folklore, Family and Myth in Irish Literature”.

Hong, Sungsook (Chongju University South Korea), “Beyond A Global Village Toward Uisneach: Seamus Heaney’s Poetry”.

Housková, Mariana (Charles University), “Synge’s Vision of the Aran Islands: The Universal in the Local”.

Hurtley, Jacqueline (University of Barcelona), “Desire under Dictatorship: W.B. Yeats, playwright, in Primo de Rivera's Spain”.

Ikeda, Hiroko (Hiroshima City University), “The Transformations of The Tragedy of the Children of Lir in Contemporary Irish Poetry”.

Ingelbien, Raphael (K.U. Leuven), “Symbolism at the Periphery: Yeats and Maeterlinck’s (Trans)national Poetics”.

Ito, Eishiro (Iwate Prefectural University), “Anti-Semitism/Anti-feminism in Giacomo Joyce”.

Ito, Noriko (Tezukayama University), “Illusion as depicted by Brian Moore”.

Izarra, Laura (University of São Paulo), “Retelling Stories of the Irish in South America”.

Jacquette, Kathleen (Farmingdale State University of New York), “European Connections in the stories of Edna O’Brien and Desmond Hogan”.

Jivanyan, Alvard (Yerevan State University), “The Rhetoric of the Irish Fairy Tale”.

Johnston, Dillon (Washington University, St. Louis), “Kinsella’s Dublin”.

Jordan, Carmel (Baruch College, City University of New York), “Italian Opera and Egyptian Geometry: Intertextual Richness in Joyce’s Dubliners”.

Joseph, Susan (Howard University Washington), ““Tuta tamen Sappho:” Ovid in the Trans-National Poetry of Eavan Boland and Derek Mahon”.

Karhio, Anne (University of Helsinki), “‘Cargoes’: America and the early poetry of Paul Muldoon”.

Kelleher, Margaret (National University of Ireland, Maynooth) “The Spirit of the Nation: Young Ireland’s ‘home-grown production’?”

Kenneally, Michael (Concordia University) “Negotiating Otherness in Nineteenth-Century Irish-Canadian Life Writing”.

Kennedy, John (Trinity College Dublin), “John McGahern and Death’s Place”.

Kennedy, Séan (National University of Ireland, Galway), “Explore other channels": Beckett, Homosexuality and the Politics of Fertility”.

Keown, Edwina (Trinity College Dublin), “The Flâneuse of Empire, Portia Quayne in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Death of the Heart (1938)”.

Kilfeather, Siobhan (Queen’s University, Belfast), “Translating the Gothic”.

Kim, Youngmin (Dongguk University Seoul), “Yeats’s A Vision as A Rhizomatic Book and Contemporary Irish Poetry”.

King, Jason (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), “Black Saint Patrick: Interculturalism, Immigration, and the Politics of Recognition on the Irish Stage”.

Kirkpatrick, Kathryn (Appalachian State University), “Representing Maud Gonne”.

Kopschitz Bastos, Beatriz (University of São Paulo), “War and Globalisation in Denis Johnston’s A Fourth for Bridge”.

Kovachev, Ognyan (St. Kliment Okhridski University of Sofia), “Submission or Appropriation: Translating Irish Literature in Bulgaria”.

Kuch, Peter (University of New South Wales), “The Gigli Concert in Brisbane and Sydney”.

Kurdi, Maria (University of Pecs), “Words Alone Can Be Certain Good: Overcoming Trauma and Loss in Jennifer Johnston’s Monological Plays”.

Lachman, Michal (University of Lodz), “Global or local? Society and the Individual in Marina Carr’s Portia Coughlan and Christina Reid’s The Belle of the Belfast City”.

Lanters, José (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), ““Cobwebs on Your Walls”: Resistance to the Global in Irish Drama”.

Leeney, Cathy (University College Dublin), ““That Within Which Passes Show”: Reason, Unreason and Performances of the Body in Loose Canon’s H”.

Levitas, Ben (Goldsmiths College London), “Synge, Sex and Censorship”.

Lojek, Helen (Boise State University), “Meeting the World in a Local Space: Conor McPherson’s The Weir”.

Lonergan, Patrick (National University of Ireland, Galway), “’No Place Like Home’: The Impact of Globalisation on Theatre Production and Criticism in Ireland.”

Lucchitti, Irene (University of Wollongong), “The Islandman at Home and Abroad”.

Lynch, Angelina (University College Dublin), “Faithful Teate and Irish Puritan Poetry”.

Lynch, Patricia (University of Limerick), “Medicine as Motif and Recurrent Narrative Element in Irish Fiction of the Early Nineteenth Century”.

Lyons, Patrick (Trinity College Dublin), “In Search of Donnchadh Ruadh Mac Conmara”.

Mac Craith, Mícháel (Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh), “Charles Henry Wilson (c1756-1808): An Early Anglo-Irish Novelist”.

Mahony, Christina Hunt (Catholic University of America Washington), CHAIR: “Out of Ireland - Ireland, the Empire and Beyond in the plays of Sebastian Barry”.

Mahony, Robert (Catholic University of America), CHAIR: “The Nineteenth Century and After”.

Malcolm, David (University of Gdansk), ““Make What You Can of That”: John McGahern’s Fiction and the World”.

Mannion, Elizabeth (Trinity College Dublin), “Different C/Kathleens”.

Markey, Anne (Trinity College Dublin), “Confluent Influences in Oscar Wilde’s Fairy Tales”.

Matsumura, Ken’ichi (Chuo University, Tokyo), “Flight and Exposure: Poetic Tradition from Sweeney to Heaney”.

McCabe, James (Freelance Author), “The Double Impulse: Thomas Kinsella and World War II”.

McCann, Rita (Dublin City University), “See panel”.

McCormack, W. J. (Professor Emeritus, Goldsmiths College, London), “Yeats and Victorian Ulster”.

McCourt, Ian (Trinity College Dublin), “The Results of the Dismantling of the Ideology behind Place on the Protagonists of The Butcher Boy and Vernon God Little”.

McFeaters, Andrew V. (Florida State University), “Repeating Joyce: Poetics and Pathologies of Nostalgia and Exile”.

McKibben, Sarah (University of Notre Dame), “West Coast/West Bank: Global Postmodernity in Irish”.

McMullan, Anna (Trinity College Dublin), CHAIR: “Corporeal Translations: Embodying Local/Global Histories in Contemporary Irish Performance”.

Meaney, Gerardine (University College Dublin), “Dark Imaginings and White Anxieties: the Gothic Republic”.

Meihuizen, Elsa (University of Zululand), “Richard Murphy: A Life in Writing”.

Meihuizen, Nicholas (University of Zululand), “The Poet, the Philosopher, and the Birds”.

Menaghan, John M. (Loyola Marymount University), “Moments of Kindness, Moments of Recognition: The Achievement of Maeve Brennan”.

Merivirta, Raita (University of Turku), “Neil Jordan’s Michael Collins: Between Irish National Cinema and Hollywood”.

Mikami, Hiroko (Waseda University, Tokyo), “Not ‘Lost in Translation’: Martin McDonagh in Japan”.

Milesi, Laurent (Cardiff University), “Choreographies of Joycean Writing”.

Moi, Ruben (University of Bergen), “I am not trying to say anything at all! That’s my whole thing’: Nothingness and Play in the Double Sessions of Martin McDonagh’s The Pillow Man”.

Molidor, Jennifer (University of Notre Dame), “Dying for Ireland: ‘Mother Ireland,’ Modernity and Mediation in the Stories of Dorothy Macardle – 1914-1937”.

Monteith, Ken (Fordham University NY), “Passionate Words/Global Desires: The Travels of Dean Mahomet”.

Moon, Hyeweon (University of Warwick), “Ourselves Alone, or Maybe Themselves Alone: The Questions of Home and Nation in Anne Devlin’s Ourselves Alone”.

Morin, Emilie (Queen’s University Belfast), “Translation and Ireland in Samuel Beckett’s Molloy and Malone Dies”.

Morse, Donald (University of Debrecen), “Anton Chekhov Meets the Celtic Tiger in Paul Murray’s An Evening of Long Goodbyes (2003)”.

Mulhall, Anne (Independent),”Kitsch/Camp/Queer: ‘Irishness’, Authenticity and Subcultural Parody”.

Mullen, Raymond (Trinity College Dublin), “From Stony Grey Soil to Plymouth Rock: History, Memory and Location in Carlo Gébler’s How to Murder a Man and Ernest Gébler’s The Plymouth Adventure—The Voyage of the Mayflower”.

Murphy, James H. (DePaul University), “Social Radicalism and Homoeroticism in Charles J. Kickham's Knocknagow (1873)”.

Murphy, John (DeVry University), “Antoine Ó Flatharta’s Elviad: from Grásta i Meiriceá to Grace in America”.

Murphy, Maureen (Hofstra University), “The Maids in their Midsts: Domestic Discourse in the Literature of the Irish Diaspora”.

Murphy, Paul (Queen’s University Belfast), “‘Woman Gives to the State’: The Role of Female Ontology in National Ideology”.

Murray, Christopher (University College Dublin), “Beckett, the Local and the Global”.

Murray, Ciaran (Chuo University, Tokyo), “Light and Enlightenment: Eriugena to Zen”.

Murray, Tony (London Metropolitan University), “‘Strange, Thwarted, Sacrificial Women’: Edna O’Brien’s Migrant Heroines”.

Mutran, Munira (University of São Paulo), “Ireland – A Global Village”.

Nakamura, Hisami (University College Dublin), “Burning Green Tree: Yeats, Oe and the Issue of Transcendental Other”.

Nally, Kenneth (National University of Ireland, Galway), “At Home Only When Abroad: The Significance of Setting in the Plays of Frank McGuinness”.

Neville, Grace (University College Cork), “‘Cet horrible jargon’: French Travellers and Language in Ireland”.

Ní Fhrighil, Ríóna (Coláiste Phádraig, Dublin City University), “In the Lap of Pharaoh’s Daughter: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill in translation”.

Ní Ghairbhí, Róisín (University College Dublin), "Reimagining a Gaelic Tradition - Intertextuality in Michael Hartnett’s Fís Dheireanach Eoghain Rua Uí Shúilleabháin/ The Last Vision of Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin".

Nic Dhiarmada, Bríona (University of Limerick), “Re-writing the Gaeltacht – Challenges from the Periphery”.

Nic Eoin, Máirín (St Patrick’s College), “‘Kafkachas’: The Influence of Kafka on Irish-Language Literature”.

Nolan, Jerry (London), “Eimar O’Duffy: Irish Global Villager”.

Nunes, Domingos (Universidade de São Paulo), “Staging Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa in Brazil”.

Ó Croidheáin, Caoimhghin (Dublin City University), “See panel”.

Ó Gallchoir, Clíona (University College Cork), “’Sell-Out?’ Commercialism, Femininity and the Commodification of Irish Identity after 1800”.

O’Brien, Denise (Trinity College Dublin), “Louis MacNeice: An Intertextual Dialogue with W.B. Yeats”.

O’Brien, Harvey (University College Dublin), “Local Man, Global Man: The Horror/Fantasy Films and Writings of Neil Jordan”.

O’Brien, Paul (Dublin), “Sean O’Casey and Hugh MacDiarmid: Politicians Who Couldn’t Help Being Writers”.

O’Connor, Honor (University College Dublin), ““While Stocks Last”: The Poetry of Dennis O'Driscoll and Contemporary Ireland”.

O’Connor, Sarah (University College Dublin), “Negotiating the Public and Private Spheres; Mapping the Feminine Psyche in Máire Mhac an tSaoi’s Ceathrúintí Máire Ní Ógáin”.

O’Toole, Tina (University of Limerick), “Exploring the “terra incognita of herself”: The Utopian Impulse in Irish Women’s Writing”.

Okamuro, Minako (Waseda University), “Joycean Narrative in Beckett's Ohio Impromptu”.

Olinder, Britta (Gothenburg University), “‘I Remember’ Childhood Events, Professional Experience and Political Developments in John Hewitt's Autobiographical Works".

Olszewska, Kinga (National University of Ireland, Galway), “Preliminary Notes to the Issue of Exile: Poland and Ireland”.

Parker, Michael (University of Central Lancashire), “From Winter Seeds to Wintering Out: the evolution of Seamus Heaney’s Third Published Collection”.

Parrott, Jeremy (Szeged), “From Samsa to Sam: The Metamorphoses of Beckett’s Ms.”.

Patke, Rajeev (National University of Singapore), “Contemporary Irish Poetry: the ‘Post-’ in ‘Postcolonial’, and the ‘Post-’ in ‘Postmodern’”.

Pelletier, Martine (Université François-Rabelais Tours), "Darwin in Ballybeg : Brian Friel's The Home Place".

Phelan, Mark (Queen’s University Belfast), “Performing ‘Authentic’ Ireland: (Dis),connecting the Cultural Politics of the Irish Revival and the Celtic Tiger on the Irish Stage”.

Pioro, Tadeusz (University of Warsaw), “The Irish Pervert and the British Subject: Leopold Bloom’s Civic Imagination”.

Poloczek, Katarzyna (University of Lodz), “Desire in Irish Women’s Contemporary Poetry and Female Incarnate Consciousness”.

Pushkarevskaya, Yulia (University College Dublin), “The Return to the Revival: the Mythification of Irishness in John Huston's adaptation of James Joyce’s “The Dead””.

Richards, Shaun (Staffordshire University), “‘To me, here is more like there’: Towards a New Paradigm for Irish Theatre Criticism”.

Rollo, Natalie (DePaul University), “Humanness Undefined: The Realm of Nothingness in Marina Carr’s By the Bog of Cats…”.

Rowley, Rosemary (Independent), “‘Gone for Good’ - The Theme of the Emigrant in the Novel That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern”.

Salis, Loredana (University of Ulster), “Feasting in the House of Ghosts: Frank McGuinness’s versions of Sophocles’ Electra and Euripides’ Hecuba”.

Sampson, Denis (Vanier College, Montreal), “Eire Abu! and Vive Moi! Autobiographers of the Thirties”.

Satake, Akiko (Rikkyo University, Tokyo) “World War II in Irish Drama”.

Saunders, Graham (Lancaster University), “'‘Reclaiming Beckett for Ireland’: The Beckett on Film Project”.

Schreiber, Mark (International University Bremen), “Screening the Underbelly of the Celtic Tiger. Contemporary Dublin in Film”.

Schreibman, Susan (University of Maryland), “The Thomas MacGreevy Archive”.

Sedlmayr, Gerold (Universität Passau), “Between Copacabana and Annaghmakerrig: Paul Durcan’s Global Perspective”.

Seve, Dominique (University of Le Havre), “Peter Sheridan: A Traditional Versus a Globalised Ireland”.

Shanks, Paul F. (University of Aberdeen), “James Joyce and Recent Glasgow Fiction”.

Shay, Cary A. (University of Kent), “Theorizing Translation: Feminist Discourse, Post-structuralism and Postcoloniality in the Poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill”.

Shimokusu, Masaya (Shizuoka University of Art and Culture), “What are you seeing?—Fairy belief and James Joyce’s Ulysses”.

Sihra, Melissa (Queen’s University, Belfast), “‘For She’s a Jolly Good Fella’: Birthdays, Deathdays and Rituals of Transformation in the Theatre of Marina Carr and Samuel Beckett”.

Singleton, Brian (Trinity College Dublin), “Queer Eye for the Irish Guy: Transgressive Sexualities in Performance”.

Smyth, Jim (University of Notre Dame), CHAIR: “Race and Ethnicity and Ireland”.

Stewart, Bruce (University of Ulster), “Sebastian Barry’s Early Prose and the Joyce-Beckett Continuum”.

Stewart, Paul (Intercollege Nicosia), “‘Then everything went kaputt.’ Belacqua's Sexuality in Dream of Fair to Middling Women”.

Sullivan, Moynagh (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), “Chicklit: The “I Want a Big House” Novel”.

Sullivan, Sara (Boston University), “Writing from Home: The Transnational Poetry of Eavan Boland”.

Sweeney, Bernadette (University College Cork), “Out of Touch - Remembrance and Embodiment”.

Sweney, Matthew (Palacký University, Olomouc), “Rhapsody in Stephen’s Green/The Insect Play/Ze života hmyzu”.
Szábo, Carmen (University College Dublin), “Artscapes of Meaning: Performance and Multimedia Installation in Northern Irish Art”.

Szmigiero, Katarzyna (Akademia Swietokrzyska Poland), “Cultural Diversity and Censorship in Ireland”.

Taaffe, Carol (Trinity College Dublin), “A ‘streptococcus-ridden gang of natural gobdaws’: The Irish Writer and the Plain People of Ireland”.

Tallone, Giovanna (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan), “The Dynamic of Space and Global Issues in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s The Bray House”.

Toraiwa, Naoko (Meiji University), “Homesickness in Contemporary Women Poets”.

Trainor de la Cruz, Patricia (Universidad de Málaga), “The Land of Saints and Scholars ”.

Trench, Rhona (Queen’s University Belfast), “‘Breathing the Same Air’: Cultural Difference in Marina Carr’s By The Bog Of Cats…”.

Tyler, Meg (Boston University), “Consonance, Dissonance, and the Management of Rhyme in Seamus Heaney’s Sonnets”.

van der Ziel, Stanley (University College Dublin), “Pornography and the Decay of Lying: Art and Reality in John McGahern’s The Pornographer”.

Walker, Tom (Trinity College Dublin), “The Mapping of Ireland’s Past in the Contemporary Novel”.

Weintraub, Stanley (Independent) , “Bernard Shaw's Irish Goddess: Lady Colin Campbell”.

White, Eric (University of Colorado at Boulder), ““Whatever...is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks”: Oscar Wilde and Sophistic Thought”.

White, Sian (University of Notre Dame), “‘I simply feel I’m more than simply me’: Modernist Innovation and the Innovation of Modernism in Elizabeth Bowen’s A World of Love”.

Wilson, Ivy (University of Notre Dame), “Ireland and the Spectre of Emancipation: Daniel O’Connell and Frederick Douglass Interpellated.”

Wolkoff, Gisele G. (Universidade de São Paulo./Universidade de Santo Amaro), “Art and Identity: Nationalism and Femininity: A Reading of Eavan Boland”.

Wollaeger, Mark (Vanderbilt University), “His Master’s Voice: Portrait of the Artist as Propagandist”.

Wydenbach, Joanna (Queen's University Belfast), “A Complete Picture?: Katharine Tynan's Novel Writing as Presented in her Autobiographies”.

Yagi, Naoko (Waseda University Japan), “Multiple Monologues as a Narrative: From Beckett to McPherson”.

Yamasaki, Hiroyuki (Osaka City University, Japan), “The Structure of Yeats’s Attitude and Reference to the Country and the City”.

Zach, Wolfgang (University of Innsbruck), “European and Global Thinking in the 18th Century: Oliver Goldsmith”.