Literature and Technology – International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

Call for Participants: Research Study

September 1, 2016 Cliona O'Gallchoir General News, Uncategorized

Shane McGarry, a PhD candidate in Digital Humanities at Maynooth University, is seeking participants for an upcoming research study. The study (which comprises both a focus group and individual 1 on 1 interviews) focuses on how users interact with Digital Scholarly Editions such as The Letters of 1916, The Woodman Diary, and Vincent Van Gogh The Letters. Shane is seeking

Call for Contributions: Science, Technology, and 20th-century Irish Literature (edited volume)

August 11, 2016 Cliona O'Gallchoir Call for Papers, New Publications

Science, Technology, and 20th-century Irish Literature (edited volume) The editors are seeking contributors for a volume focused on science, technology, and Irish literature of the revival and modernist period. Since W. B. Yeats infamously wrote in 1890 that “the man of science is too often a person who has exchanged his soul for a formula,” the anti-scientific and Luddite