INDIVIDUAL PAPER PROPOSALS ACCEPTED
Below is a list of speakers whose papers have been accepted for IASIL 2007. Delegates should also note that there is a page listing independent panels. If you are NOT listed here, and think you should be, please send an email to iasil_2007@yahoo.ie as soon as possible. Similarly, if your listing contains errors, please email the conference organisers as soon as possible.

The appearance of a person's name in the list below does not guarantee that that person will attend IASIL 2007. This list is subject to revision. All speakers must register for IASIL 2007. All speakers must be members of IASIL.

 

Update 14 May 2007
Abbass, Sahar (Helwan University), “Cross-Cultural Issues: A Study of the Personal and Global in two different literary texts”.

Aboud, Aisling Cormack (University of California at Irvine), “Vertiginous Identifications: Race, Gender and Sexuality in The Crying Game”.

Aixàs, Marissa (UAB), “Irishness and Catalanishness: reflections on the process of transposing ‘Anna Livia Plurabelle’ from Joyce’s Finnegans Wake into Catalan”.

Alexander, Neal (University of Wales), “Mapping Junkspace: Ciaran Carson’s Urban Cartographies”.

Allen Randolph, Jody (Independent Scholar), “The Troubled Mirror: Making the Private Public in the Charged Space of the Political Poem”.

Amador Moreno, Carolina (University College Dublin), “Variational Writing: Fictionalizing Northern Hiberno-English”.

Amiot, Pascale (University of Perpignan), “‘Thieving Perspectives’: varieties and variations in Eavan Boland’s ‘Suburban Woman’ poems”.

Armellino, Elisa (Turin University), “Letters from the Past in Catherine Dunne’s The Walled Garden: The Return Home and the Re-Shaping of Irish identity.”

Armstrong, Charles (University of Bergen), “The Mundane and the Monstrous: Everyday Epiphanies in Northern Irish Poetry”.

Arndt, Marie (Thames Valley University), “Home and Away at the same time: Identity and Culture in Brian Friel’s The Home Place and James Joyce’s Exiles”.

Arrington, Lauren (Oxford University), “Educating Irishness: Subsidy and Censorship of the Abbey Theatre and Free State Cultural Policy”.

Asian Carrera, Anna (University of Barcelona), “Rapid progress and its side-effects in contemporary Ireland: Brendan Kennelly’s Now”.

Auge, Andrew J. (Loras College, Dubuque), “Varieties of Irish Womanhood: Nuns, Mothers, and Magdalenes in Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s Poetry”.

Ballin, Malcolm (Cardiff University), “Varieties of Irishness in The Bell”.

Balogh, Andrea (University of Szeged), “Eavan Boland’s Feminist Aesthetic in the Context of Feminist Postcolonial Thought”.

Baltasi, Michael (University of Chicago), “The Ethics of Love in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September”.

Basta, Samira (Ain Shams University, Cairo), “Boucicault and O’Casey’s Sensation Drama”

Batten, Guinn (Washington University in St. Louis), “States of Emergency and Romantic Crisis in Contemporary Irish Poetry”.

Bastos, Beatriz Kopschitz (University of Sao Paulo), “Diversity in Contemporary Irish Drama: At Home and Abroad”.

Bebiano, Adriana (University of Coimbra), “Thrillers: Urban Irish Tales After History”.

Bendelli, Guiliana (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), “Post-Joycean fictional “experiments”: the nightmare of an hallucinated Irish Gothic history”.

Benini, Davide (Università degli Studi di Verona), “Psychedelic Lore: Ciaran Carson’s varieties of the Irish tradition in The Twelfth of Never”.

Bloom, Jonathan (University of Paris Dauphine), “Transformations: William Trevor at Work”.

Bogucki, Michael (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), “Synge’s Praise and McDonagh’s Blame: Representing Aran as the Ghastly Ordinary”

Booker, Colleen (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), “‘Shot though the Buzzom’: Nationalist Appropriation and Female Agency in Sean O’Casey’s The Shadow of a Gunman”.

Borges, Noelia (Federal University of Bahia), “Goldfish Memory: Different cinematic representations of contemporary Irishness”.

Bowers, Susan R. (Susquehanna University), “Romantic Love in a Pre-Romantic Culture: Loving in Irish”.

Bowlby, Heather (California State University, Long Beach), “The Irish Woman-Nation in Lady Gregory’s Grania: Catalyst for Transformation”.

Bradley, Finbarr (University College Dublin), “Scientific Culture, Irishness and Place: From Plunkett to the Johnstons – Century of the Practical”.

Brewster, Scott (University of Salford), “The Space that Cleaves: House Style in Paulin, McGuckian and Morrissey”.

Broomfield , Arthur (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick), “Dealing with Difference in Maria Edgeworth’s Ormond”.

Brown, Barbara (Marshall U., W. Virginia), “Metaphor in Maurice Harmon’s ‘The Doll with Two Backs’”.

Brown, Karen (Queen’s University, Belfast), “Gender and the Decorative Arts: Evelyn Gleeson and the Irish Cultural Revival”.

Buchanan, Jason (Purdue University), “Uninhabitable Soil: The Metaphor of Nostalgic Land in Colm Tóibín’s The Heather Blazing and The South.

Buckley, Megan (National University of Ireland, Galway), “”To interface between myth and reality: Women, shapeshifting and Irish fairy legend in the poetry of May O’Malley”.

Burke, Patrick (St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra/DCU), “‘Bogmen in Byzantium’: Friel and Yeats in Dialogue”.

Campbell, Matthew (University of Sheffield), “Mangan’s Golden Years”.

Cantwell, Eamonn (Independent Scholar), “Seeking an Irish Identity: Varieties of Irishness in the Early Journal Publications of W.B. Yeats”

Carvalho Viana, Maria Isabel (Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei), “Irishness and Cultural Translation in Brian Friel’s Translations”.

Casal, Teresa (University of Lisbon), “Trauma and Trust: Telling or not Telling in Jennifer Johnston’s Incest Novels”.

Castle, Gregory (Arizona State University), “’The Instinct of the Celibate’: Confessional Identity in Joyce’s ‘The Boarding House’”.

Cavanaugh, Catherine (College of Saint Rose, Albany), “Boland and O’Faolain: Imagining and Sharing an Aging Woman’s Life”.

Chapman, Maile (University of Nevada), “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Expat: A Rankian View of Conflict in the Creative Development of Stephen Dedalus”.

Chiba , Yoko (St. Lawrence’s University, Canton, New York), “The Influence of W. B. Yeats’s Irishness on W. Y. Evans-Wentz”.

Chircop, Karl (University of Malta), “The Ibsenite nature of Pirandello’s Sicilianità and Joyce’s Irishness: The cultures they fled, the contexts and metaphors that inspired them”.

Chung, Moonyoung (Keimyung University), “Beckett’s Becoming- ‘Body without Organs’ and Irishness”.

Clark, David (University of A Coruña), “From Dysfunctional Narrator to Dysfunctional Author: Narrative within Narrative in Paul Murray’s An Evening of Long Goodbyes and Patrick McCabe’s Call Me the Breeze”.

Clerkin, Caitriona (University College Dublin), “Weaving our futures from our past: Globalisation and Irish identity in the Poetry of Cathal Ó Searcaigh

Cliff, Brian F. (Montclair State University), “Contrasting Pluralities in McGuinness’s Carthaginians and Reid’s The Belle of Belfast City”.

Clutterbuck, Catriona (University College Dublin), “A Gibbous Voice: The Poetics of Subjectivity in Early Medbh McGuckian”.

Conneely, Mairead (University of Limerick), “Islandness as a Variety of Irishness”.

Cordner, A.E. (University of Newcastle Upon Tyne), “Who are the Northern Irish?”

Cotta Ramusino, Elena (Università di Pavia), “Autobiography and Nation-biography: the case of William Butler Yeats”.

Cregan, David (Villanova University), “’Queer Nation’: Homosexual Representations of National Identity in Frank McGuinness’s Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme and Dolly West’s Kitchen”.

Cronin, Michael Gerard (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), “ ‘Caithfidh go bhuil sé go hiontach a bheith saor’ / It must be wonderful to be free’: Queer Sexuality and Nationalism in Brendan Behan’s Borstal Boy”.

Crosson, Seán (National University of Ireland, Galway), “‘The metrical, linguistic and emotional style of the old songs’: The Gaelic Song Tradition and Performance in the Poetry of Cathal Ó Searcaigh”.

Crowley , Ronan (Trinity College Dublin), “Reconciliation and Sundering: Names in the Ulysses Drafts at the National Library of Ireland”.

D’hoker, Elke (University of Leuven), “Transforming the storytelling tradition: Elizabeth Bowen’s first-person narratives”.

Dantanus, Ulf (University of Sussex), “Equine varieties of Irishness: the horse in the new Ireland”.

De Angelis, Irene (Università degli Studi di Torino), “Sinéad Morrissey between Politics and Transcendence”.

Dean, Joan Fitzpatrick (University of Missouri-Kansas City), “Micheál Mac Liammóir and the Pageantry of Irish History”.

Delattre, Elisabeth (Université d’Artois), “‘Between that world and this’: a reading of Breaking News by Ciaran Carson”.

Dick, Maria-Daniella (University of Glasgow), “‘Beyond the Portrait’: a concept of the artist in James Joyce”.

Dougherty McMichael, Jessica (University of Notre Dame), “Away with the Indians: Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s Spin on Micí Mac Gabhann’s Rotha Mór an tSaoil”.

Downum, Denell (New York City College of Technology), “T.S.Eliot’s Celtic Portrait of the Artist”.

Dunne, Eamonn (University College Dublin), “Inadequate Symbols: Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity in Robert McLiam’s Eureka Street”.

Facchinello, Monica (University of York), “John Banville and the Dilemma of Belonging”.

Farquharson, Danine (Memorial University of Newfoundland), “‘Do we need to be white? No!’: Roddy Doyle Writing New Irishness”.

Farrell, Tyler (University of Dubuque), “The Academic Daughter Speaks: Enid Starkie’s A Lady’s Child”.

Fernández, José Francisco (University of Almería), “The Role of Women in Samuel Beckett’s Early Fiction”.

Fischer, Dore (Dublin Institute of Technology, Kevin Street), “‘The Blasket Islanders returning’? Multiculturalism and Cultural Diversity in Hugo Hamilton’s Sad Bastard and Dermot Bolger’s The Valparaiso Voyage”.

Fischer, Joachim (University of Limerick), “The Irishness of Baroness Tautphoeus (1807-1893): Literary footnotes on the occasion of the 200 th birthday of a forgotten Irish novelist”.

Fischerova, Jana (University College Dublin), “Censorship and Self-Censorship in the Works of Kate O’Brien and Mary Lavin”.

Flannery, Eóin (University of Limerick), “Troubling Bodies: Hunger, Somatics and Resistance in Contemporary Irish Short Fiction”.

Fleming, Deborah (Ashland University), “‘The Journey We Took Together’: Eamon Grennan’s Poems About His Children in As If It Matters”.

Fox, Renée (Princeton University), “Painting a Ginger Cat Black: Martin McDonagh and the Failure of Performance”.

Frawley, Oona (Trinity College Dublin), “Irish Cultural Memory”.

Gamal El-Din Abdel-wahab, Ahmed (Ain Shams University, Cairo), “Gender Historicised: Feminist Politics in Molly Keane’s Early and Late Novels”.

Gamerra, Gioia (University of Florence), “‘On the edge of everything’: spatial and textual liminality in McGuckian’s poems”.

Garten, Christine (Saint Norbert College, Arlington), “Come in Bridget: the Construction of Irish Femininity in Father Hugh Quigley’s The Cross and the Shamrock”.

Gibson, Matthew (University of Surrey), “’The Morning Star is the Evening Star’: Logical Positivism in Beckett’s Ill Seen, IllSaid”.

Giráldez, José Miguel Alonso (University of A Coruña), “Rewriting Irish Identities: Native Ground and Sense of Place in Seamus Heaney’s District and Circle”.

Guy, Peter D.T. (National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies), “John Broderick, Francois Mauriac and the Influence of the Catholic Novel in Ireland”.

Greer, Sammye (Wittenberg University), “Mirror-opposite Responses to Being Irish: the Autobiographies of Eavan Boland and Polly Devlin”.

Hand, Derek (St Patrick’s College Drumcondra/DCU), “The Famine and the Law in 19 th Century Irish Fiction”.

Harman, Mark (Elizabethtown College, Lancaster), “The Uses of Babel: On looking into translations from the Irish”.

Harriman, Lucas (University of Miami), “Parnell and Lincoln: Haunting the Struggle for National Identity”.

Harris, Claudia (Brigham Young University), “Acts of Reconciliation: The Plays of Tom Murphy and Marina Carr”.

Harris, Peter James (The State University of Sao Paolo), “Lennox Robinson’s The BigHouse: Irishness as perceived in London in the 1930s”.

Haslam, Richard (Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia), “Gerald Griffin, William Carleton, and Irish Catholic Gothic”.

Hatch, David (Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City), “Ideological Siege and Student Subversion at Trinity College, Dublin”.

Hawkins, Maureen (University of Lethbridge), “Chekhovian O’Casey: The Modern Tragicomic Structure of The Plough and the Stars”.

Headrick, Charlotte (Oregon State University), “You don’t have to be born in a country to belong to it: Nicola McCartney’s Heritage, A Drama of the Irish in Canada”.

Heininge, Kathleen (George Fox University, Newberg), “The Emerald Society: The Irish Police in America”

Higgins, Geraldine (Emory University, Atlanta), “Slander and Slavery: Irishness in Gone with the Wind”.

Homem, Rui Carvalho (Universidade do Porto), “Horsing About?: Carson, Muldoon and memory”.

Huber, Werner (University of Vienna), “Screening Sweeney: At Swim-Two-Birds – the Film”.

Hughes, Eamonn (Queen’s University, Belfast), “Mind the Gap: The relationship between stage and stalls in twentieth-century Irish theatre”.

Hwang, Hoonsung (Dongguk University Seoul), “A Semiotic Approach to Theatereality on Beckett’s Late Stage”.

Ingelbien, Raphael (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), “Varying the National Tale: Lady Morgan, O’Connellism and the Belgian Revolution”.

Ingman, Heather (Trinity College, Dublin), “Waifs and Strays: Maeve Brennan and Jean Rhys”.

Ireland , Colin (Arcadia University Center for Education Abroad, Dublin), “Early Irish Poetic Myth: a key to understanding the success of Irish writers in English”.

Ito, Eishiro (Iwate Prefectural University), “Diaspora Jews in Joyce’s Dublin: Irish Jewish lives described in Ulysses”.

Ito, Noriko (Tezukayama University), “Painting and John Banville’s writing”.

Jacquette, Kathleen (Farmindale State College-State University of New York), “Irish Motherhood Revisited: The Light of Evening by Edna O’Brien”.

Jordan , Carmel (Baruch College, CUNY), “Reclaiming a Sexual Landscape: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s Provocative Use of the Táin Bo Cuailnge and other Early Irish Tales”.

Kao, Wei H. (National Taiwan University), “The Working-class Irishness in a Global Context: A Comparative Study of the Labor Representation in the Contemporary Theatres of Ireland and of Taiwan”.

Karhio, Anne (University of Helsinki), “A ‘Slight Return’: Paul Muldoon’s Irelands”.

Keating, Sara (Trinity College, Dublin), “The Playboy of the Eastern World: Cultural translation and contemporary Irish drama”.

Kelly, Jim (University College Dublin), “Historical Fiction in Contemporary Ireland: Collective Memory and Narrative Agency in the 21 st century”.

Kennedy, John (University of Connecticut), “‘So No Mother Then?’ A Trajectory through Three Irish Plays”.

Keown, Edwina (Trinity College, Dublin), “Theodora Thirdman ‘housewrecker’ in Elizabeth Bowen’s Friends & Relations (1931)”.

Kerrane, Kevin (University of Delaware), “After the Trilogy: Billy Roche’s The Cavalcaders”.

Khallaf, Nadia Osman (Al Azhar University, Cairo), “Brian Friel’s Post-Colonial Message: A Personal and Distinctive Voice”.

Kiely, Kevin (University College Dublin), “Pound: ‘Oireland and the Oirish’ – effects and influences”.

Kilcoyne, Catherine (University College Dublin), “The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian: ‘Work in Progress!’”.

Kim, Youngmin (Dongguk University, Seoul), “The Poetics of War in Yeats’s Poetry and in A Vision”.

King, Jason (Concordia University), “Crimes of Fecundity: James Joyce’s Ulysses, the Politics of Maternity, and the Cultural Meaning of Irishness after the Citizenship Referendum”.

Kuch, Peter (University of Otago, NZ), “Calling a loy a loy: J.M. Synge on stage in Australia”.

Kurdi, Maria (University of Pécs), “Unperforming Marginalised Irish Womanhood in Paula Meehan’s Mrs Sweeney”.

LaBorde, Allyson (University of Texas at Austin), “The Land of Spices as Prose Narrative Elegy”.

Lachman, Michal (University of Lodz), “Friel’s Cities: urban experience in contemporary Irish Drama”.

Lanters, Jose (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), “Modernity, the ‘Tinkers,’ and the Return of the Repressed”.

Lapointe, Michael (University of Toronto), “The Word Known to All Men: Jamie O’Neill’s Love Letter”.

Lehner, Stephanie (University of Edinburgh), “Of Spectres and Angels: Ethical Gender relations in Anne Enright’s The Wig My Father Wore and A. L. Kennedy’s So I Am Glad”.

Lindsey, Dunya (Monash University), “On Solid Ground? The Irish-Australian Diaspora and Indigeneity”.

Lojek, Helen (Boise State University), “Travelling with Hester Swaine: Community in Marina Carr’s By the Bog of Cats”.

Lorenzoni, Giulia (University College Dublin), “The End of a Euclidean Era: Fluid Paradigms for Irish ‘Liquid Society’”.

Lucchitti, Irene (University of Wollongong), “The Blasket Islands and Irishness”.

Lynch, Angelina (University College Dublin), “Richard Nugent’s ‘Cynthia’ (1604) as Poetry of Complaint”.

Lynch, Claire (Oxford University), “Variety: The Spice of Irish Life-Writing”.

Lynch, Patricia (University of Limerick), “Composing and performing a view of Irishness “in my father’s time”: Hiberno-English for stylistic purposes in the stories of Éamon Kelly”.

Lynch, Vivian Valvano (St. John’s University, NY), “ Secret Gardens: Unearthing the Truth in Patrick O’Keeffe’s The Hill Road”.

Magennis, Caroline (Queen’s University Belfast), “’The Unpleasantness’: Homophobia and the Homoerotic in Northern Ireland in Maurice Leitch’s The Liberty Lad and Glenn Patterson’s The International”.

Maher, Eamon (National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies, ITT Dublin), “John McGahern’s Ireland as immortalised in Memoir”.

Mar, Luz Gonzalez Arias (Universidad de Oviedo), “Iphigenia in Post-Celtic-Tiger Ireland: Maps of Instability in Marina Carr’s Ariel”.

Markey, Anne (Trinity College Dublin), “Varieties of Irishness in contemporary fiction for young readers”.

Massoud, Mary (Ain Shams University, Cairo), “Varieties of Irishness in Poems about Egypt”

Matthews, Kelly (University of Ulster), “‘The Danger of Oversimplifying History’: Representations and Transformations of Irish Identity in The Bell 1940-1946”.

Maxwell, Margaret (University of Aberdeen), “‘Atalkin’ to you’self’: R D Laing and The Divided Self in Brian Friel’s Philadelphia, Here I Come!”.

Mays, Michael (University of Southern Mississippi), “Dehistoricizing Yeats”.

Mazhar, Amal (Cairo University), “Alternative Irishness, Alternative Egyptianness in Brian Friel’s Molly Sweeney and Naguib Sorrour’s Where Can I Find People?”.

McAreavey, Naomi (University College Dublin), “Reading the 1641 Rebellion through Irish Women’s Letters”

McCormick, Julie (Texas A&M University), “When the Bough Breaks: Paula Meehan’s Alternative Childhood”.

McFeely, Deirdre (Trinity College Dublin), “Dion Boucicault: The Stage Irishman, the Playwright and the Press”.

McGarrity, Maria (Long Island University), “Joyce, Casement, and the Congo: Primitive Emancipation”.

McGlynn, Cathy (Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology), “‘The panic of non-being’: the deconstruction of identity in Dermot Healy’s A Goat’s Song”.

McGlynn, Mary (Baruch College, CUNY), “Dilly Dedalus and the Urban Working Class”.

McGuinness, Caitlin (University of Western Australia), “Mementoes and Massacres: Souveniring the past in Anna Burn’s No Bones”.

McKee, Alexander B. (University of California at Santa Barbara), “James Joyce’s Ill-luminated Manuscript”.

Mentxaka, Aintzane Legarreta (University College Dublin), “Accidental Irishness – Identity in Kate O’Brien”.

Mikowski, Sylvie (Université de Reims-Champagne-Ardenne), “The Artist as Exile: Colum McCann’s Dancer”.

Milli, Valentina (University of Florence), “Sons and Fathers in Three Novels by Frank Ronan”.

Moi, Ruben (University of Tromsø), “From Beijing to Burma, from Tithonus to Warren Zevon: What has happened to matters Irish in Paul Muldoon’s Horse Latitudes?”.

Moir, Michael (The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC), “As Above, So Below: Double-Plotting and Notions of Aristocracy in The Countess Cathleen and The Player Queen”.

Monteith, Ken (City University of New York), “Corporate Authority/ Domestic Exchange: Trading Spaces and Refining Identity in The Travels of Dean Mahomet”.

Morin, Christina (Trinity College Dublin), “‘Le Petit Milor Anglois’?: Defining Irishness in Maturin’s The Wild Irish Boy”.

Mossman, Mark (Western Illinois University), “The Prince, the Duchess, and the King: Categories of Physical Difference and the Failed Normalization of Ireland”.

Mulhall, Anne (University College Dublin), “On the Couch: Therapeutic Discourse and the Practice of Irish Studies”.

Mullan, Aisling (Queen’s University Belfast), “A variety of threads for a tapestry of unity in Yeats’s early drama”.

Murphy, John L. (DeVry University, California), “Come Back Horslips: Social networking, Fan sites and Irish electric folk-rock”.

Murphy, Megan (Trinity College Dublin), “Examining Film Noir in Tom Murphy’s The Blue Macushla”.

Murphy, Richard (Seattle University), “The First Policeman?: Maurice O’Sullivan, Flann O’Brien and the Modernizing Gael”.

Murphy, Sharon (Trinity College Dublin), “Maria Edgeworth and the East India Company Soldiers”.

Murray, Anthony (London Metropolitan University), “Nipple Narratives: Fictional Representations of the Irish in London in the late 1980s and early 1990s”.

Nakamura, Hisami (Chuo University), “How Crazy is Jane?”.

Nally, Claire (Manchester University), “Yeats’s ‘fanatic heart’: Secrecy, Anti-Semitism and Occult Politics”.

Nunez, Domingo (UNIB), “A Brazilian Approach for Staging Stones in His Pockets by Marie Jones”.

O’Brien, Paul (Independent Scholar), “Sean O’Casey: A Working-class Protestant in Catholic Ireland”.

O’Callaghan, Katherine (Nouvelle Sorbonne, Paris), “’A call from afar’: James Joyce’s exilic motif”.

O’Connell, Sandra (Trinity College Dublin), “George Reavey (1907-1976) – An Irish-European Modernist”.

O’Connor, Kevin (Phillips Academy, Andover), “Narrative Truth in a Northern Irish Bildungsroman: The Uses of Confession in Deane’s Reading in the Dark”.

Ó Gallchoir, Clíona (University College Cork), “Women, Luxury and Anglo-Irish Patriotism in the Eighteenth Century”.

Olinder, Britta (Goteburg University), “The Variety of Irish People in John Hewitt’s Writings”.

Orel , Gwen (Independent Scholar), “Sailing to Imaginary Ireland: The Pirate Queen on Broadway”.

O’Rourke, Fran (University College Dublin), “James Joyce and Thomas Aquinas”.

Parker, Michael (University of Central Lancashire), “Confronting the Boys: Politics and Gender in Gary Mitchell’s The Force of Change”.

Pearce, Sandra Manoogian (Minnesota State University Moorhead), “Edna O’Brien’s Down by the River: Fact and Fiction in the Abortion X Case”.

Pérez Vides, Auxiliadora (University of Huelva), “Strategies of Female Self-Discovery in Catherine Dunne’s Fiction”.

Perez, Aida Rosende (University of Vigo), “Mapping Language and Space: Cartographies of Identity in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s The Dancers Dancing”.

Pierse, Mary (University College Cork), “Cathal Ó Searcaigh, Cecelia Ahern and the au delà”.

Pine, Emilie (University of York), “The Politics of Memory”

Price, Graham (University College Dublin), “‘A Hercules with no work’: John McGahern’s Amongst Women and the tragic dandy”.

Pushkarevskaya, Yulia (University College Dublin), “The narratives of the South and the North in Jennifer Johnston”.

Rains, Stephanie (Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology), “Modernity and Consumption in 19thC Ireland: The Araby Bazaar and 1890s Popular Culture”.

Reynolds, Paige (College of the Holy Cross, Worcester), “Lights, Camera, Ireland: Celebrity in Contemporary Irish Drama”.

Richtarik, Marilynn (Georgia State University), “Varieties of Doubt: Stewart Parker’s Pratt’s Fall”.

Romanets, Maryna (University of Northern British Columbia), “Folded in Imaginary Landscape: (Re)construction of Histories in Nuala O’Faolain’s My Dream of You”.

Ruczaj, Maciej (Charles University, Prague), “Irishmen in Inferno: Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman between Beckett and Dante”.

Ruppo, Irena (National University of Ireland, Galway), “Yeats, Ibsen and Mrs. Patrick Campbell”

Ryan, Catriona (Swansea University), “The Poetics of Tom MacIntyre”.

Ryan, Marita (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick), “Reflections of the Future: A Postmodernist and French Feminist Exploration of Dermot Bolger’s The Valparaiso Voyage”.

Saiu, Octavian (University of Otago, NZ), “Au contraire: the “full Irish case” of Samuel Beckett”.

Satake, Akiko (Rikkyo University), “Cases of Cultural Transformation in Drama”.

Satris, Marthine (University of California at Santa Barbara), “Celtic Tiger Poetics”.

Schut, Rosalinde (University College Dublin), “‘Should I stay or should I go?’: Immigration and Integration in early Restoration literary Dublin”.

Schwall, Hedwig (Kuleuven), “Homing: towards a new sense of self in Sinead Morrissey’s poetry”.

Schwerter, Stephanie (University of Ulster, Coleraine), “‘The Fascination with the East’: Russian Influence on Northern Irish Poetry”.

Sciarrino, Chiara (Università degli Studi di Palermo) “Deirdre Madden’s Novels: a Literary Interpretation of Religious Art”.

Sen, Malcolm (University College Dublin), “From Internationalism to Authenticity: The Changing Geographies of Ireland”.

Shanahan, Barry (University College Dublin), “‘The Irish and their famous profanity’: Hip-Hop and Identity in Roddy Doyle’s ‘Home to Harlem’”.

Shanahan, Jim (St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra/DCU), “Frank Mathew’s The Wood of the Brambles (1896): the first Irish modernist novel?”.

Shimokusu, Masaya (Shizuoka University of Art and Culture), “Corpse or Changeling? – An Irish Folkloric Aspect of Bram Stoker’s Dracula”.

Sihra, Melissa (Trinity College Dublin), “A Bold Stroke for a Woman: Susanna Centlivre”.

Smith, Eoghan (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), “Failing Better: Beckettian Identities and the Conditions of Violence in John Banville’s ‘Art Trilogy’”.

Sprayberry, Sandra (Birmingham-Southern College), “The Playboy of the Non-Western World: Postcolonial Readings of Synge’s Play”.

Swan, Desmond (University College Dublin), “The Mind-forg’d manacles of Mucker; a literary and psychological celebration of the dark people of Patrick Kavanagh’s The Great Hunger”.

Tallone, Giovanna (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), “Houses of Difference. Space and Disability in the Fiction of Éilís Ní Dhuibhne and Clare Boylan”.

Thuente, Mary Helen (North Carolina State University), “Re-Envisioning the Harp as an Icon of Irish Identity”.

Toraiwa, Naoko (Meiji University), “Strange at Home: Intralingual Translation in Contemporary Poetry”.

Tracy, Robert (University of California, Berkeley), “Friel’s Aristocrats: the Temptations of Myth”.

Tucker, Amanda (University of Miami), “Nationalism from an Immigrant Perspective: William Bulfin’s Rambles in Eirinn”.

Tyler, Meg (Boston University), “Some Thoughts on Seamus Heaney’s and Michael Longley’s Recent Sonnets”.

Tynan, Maeve (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick), “‘still splitting heirs, dividing a Shem from a Shaun’: TransculturalJoyce and the Postcolonial Hybrid”.

Urban, Eva (University College Dublin), “History Plays: The political vision of the United Irishmen in Northern Star by Stewart Parker and Tearing the Loom by Garry Mitchell”.

Van der Ziel, Stanley (University College Dublin), “Art and the Artist: Text and Intertext in John McGahern’s Getting Through Stories”.

Velloso Fernandes de Tolentino, Magda (Federal University of São João del-Rei) “Cultural Memory in Arthur’s Nocturnes”.

Villar, Pilar (Universidad de Granada), “Eavan Boland’s ‘aesthetic of non-identity’: Towards a liberating ‘Third Space’”.

Walker, Tom (Oxford University), “Some thoughts on repetition in the work of John McGahern”.

Wightman, Beth (California State University. Northridge), “The Spaces of Anglophone Irish and Caribbean Criticism”.

Winterson, Kieron (University of Liverpool), “Some corner of a foreign field: two Irish women poets, the nineteenth century, and the Great War”.

Wolkoff, Gisele Giandoni (Universidade de Sao Paulo), “From Outer to Inner Landscapes: Eavan Boland’s translations of Pictures into Words”.

Wong, Linda Pui-ling (Hong Kong Baptist University), “Re-inventing ‘Irishness’ in a Chinese Context”.

Wydenbach, Joanna (Queen’s University Belfast), “Recovering Early Twentieth Century Irish Women Novelists”.

Xiurong, WEI (University of Macau), “After the Kerry Babies: Children and Sexuality in Contemporary Irish Drama”.

Zamorano Llena, Carmen (University of Lleida), “‘In a place which is not a place’: The Poetics and Politics of Place in a Globalised Ireland as Reflected in Contemporary Irish Poetry”.

Zucker, Carole (Concordia University), “Neil Jordan’s Relationship to Celtic Myth and Folklore: A Dimension Beyond Existence”.