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IRISH STUDIES ANNOUNCEMENTS
On
this page: Calls for Papers, New Publications, Festivals and Summer
Schools, Scholarships, and other Irish Studies announcements.
CALLS FOR PAPERS
Current
Calls for Papers Gothic Studies Submission
Deadline: June 2002
A
special issue dedicated to Oscar Wilde, and to be edited by IASIL
member Neil Sammells. Articles
should be no more than 4000 words, submitted in Bathspa publications
house style – and should address such issues as – Wilde and Gothic
Novel, Dandies and Vampires, Wilde and post-modern Gothic, Parodying
the Gothic, Wilde and the politics of Gothic, or Irish Gothic.
Contributions
to reach editor by June 2002, projected publication in 2003.
Contact
Neil at n.sammells@bathspa.ac.uk. Postal address Bath Spa University College,
Newton Partk, Baqth BA2 9BN UK
Bonded Shores Submission
Deadlines: 1 May and 1 December 2002
Vols
VII & VIII seeks undergrad and grad papers, of 3,000 and 8,0000
words. (Due dates 12th
May and 12th December, 2002, respectively) On Irish literature,
history, business, Heritage, performing arts, theology, etc.
Only
contact info – with no contact name – is a postal address – 413 Forest
Place NW, Lenoir NC 28645
Victorian Literature And Culture Submission
Deadline: 1 December 2002
For
a forthcoming section on Victorian Ireland in Victorian Literature
And Culture – send papers dealing with any aspect of the literature
and culture of the period, including diasporic subjects by 1st
December, 2002 to Abigail Burnham Bloom, 54 Riverside Drive, New York,
NY 10024, or for more information, contact Abigail.bloom@nyu.edu.
Recent
Calls for Papers
Ireland and the Novel in the Nineteenth Century Submission
Deadline: 1 February 2002
IASIL
member Jackie Belanger is editing a collection of essays on “Ireland
and the Novel in the Nineteenth Century” and welcomes submissions
which attempt to rethink definitions of the Irish novel 1800-1900. Detailed abstract, 600 words, by 1st Feb, 2002 Accepted
essays of 6,000 words due 15th January 2003.
Contact
belangerj@cardiff.ac.uk
Tel. 44-(0) 29 2087 6339.
Cuadernos de Filologia Inglesa, Submission
Deadline: 1 March 2002
Contributions
welcome to a special issue of Cuadernos de Filologia Inglesa,
a journal published by the University of Madrid. Their June 2003 issue will be devoted to Irish Studies Today.
Contributions, including book reviews, should be double-spaced
and three copies sent by 1 March, 2002 to Keith Gregor, Facultad de
Letras, Universidad de Murcia, Santo Cristo 1, 30071 SPAIN.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
Because IASIL is not sending out periodic mailings
to the entire membership as a general any longer, members with books
forthcoming should remind their publishers to either send a relevant
flyer, and notice shall be posted here, or they should advise their
publishers to ask for the IASIL mailing list, free of charge, for
a ONCE OFF use to circularise members by post.
The
Catholic University of America Press announces the publication
or two books by IASIL members –
·
Marilynn J. Richtarik, ACTING BETWEEN THE LINES: The Field Day Theatre Company and Irish Cultural Politics 1980
–84. (reissue in paper)
Also
–
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James H. Murphy, ABJECT LOYALTY:
Nationalism and Monarchy in Ireland During the Reign of Queen
Victoria.
Another
member, Patricia Nolan, has published a bilingual French/English collection of poems, Travelling
(Paris: Le Castor Astral)
and has just completed a book tour in Boston. New
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF IRISH STUDIES, edited by
former IASIL Chair Michael Kenneally. Regular features will
include interviews, poetry, profiles of Irish Canadians, photo essays
and many reviews of Irish studies interest. The first issue circulated
at IASIL 2001 at DCU, the next will appear shortly with articles on
film, on William Carleton and Sean O'Casey. Contact address
is cdnirish@alcor.concordia.ca. JOURNAL
OF IRISH STUDIES (formerly THE
HARP), a publication of IASIL, Japan, Volume XVI, 2001 is available
(and very handsome too!) and offers poems by Nuala Ni Dhomnaill, Biddy
Jenkinson, Maire Mhac an tSaoi and others, plus academic essays and
reviews. Contact editor Peter McMillan if you wish to submit
contributions to future volumes. aidan@parkcity.ne.jp
FESTIVALS AND SUMMER SCHOOLS 43rd ANNUAL YEATS SUMMER SCHOOL 27th
July – 10th August, Sligo.
www.yeats-sligo.com Lectures,
readings, plays and tours. Scholars
and artists include Roy Foster, Paul Muldoon, Michael Longley, John
McGahern, Nicholas Grene, Ron Schuchard and Patrick McCabe.
Director – Bernard O’Donoghue.
SCHOLARSHIPS Several
partial tuition scholarships available for recent BA's and mature
students for an interdisciplinary MA programme in Irish Studies.
For more information, contact Dr. Christina Hunt Mahony, The Center
for Irish Studies, The Catholic University of America, Washington
DC 20064 USA. or at mahonyc@cua.edu.
Preference given to US citizens.
OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS MILE FAILTE – Irish language radio broadcast weekly. 8-9am EST on WFUV (90.7)FM. And on-line streaming live on WFUV.ORG , and on the net at any time at WFUV.ORG or WFUV Archives. Hosted by our very own Seamus Blake. Lessons, songs and dialogues in Irish – also information on Irish language schools and activities in Ireland and elsewhere.
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