Hilary term: Schedule of Speakers

The series takes place in Room 0.09 Aras an Phiarsaigh at 5.15pm on Wednesdays.

We are delighted to announce an exciting line-up of speakers for Hilary term.

Jan 14th: Professor Francis O'Gorman (University of Leeds): "Victorian Literature and the Dead"

Jan 21st: Professor Nigel Smith (Princeton University): "Milton and Shakespeare"

Jan 28th: Dr. Maria Johnston: ""I tap my feet to Fats Waller and look out the window": Music in the Poetry of Michael Longley"

Mark O'Connell: "Missing Twins, Real and Imagined, in John Banville's Birchwood and Mefisto"

Feb 4th: Reading week: no seminar

Feb 11th: Alison Lacivita: "'refuses to
sacrifice SD': Shem's Incestuous Origins in Joyce's Finnegans Wake."

Alexander Runchman: "The Innovation of Delmore Schwartz"

Feb 18th: Professor Jeremy Smith (University of Glasgow)

Feb 25th: Guy Woodward: "Strange Openings: the Second World War in paintings by Colin Middleton"

Ailise Bulfin: "Colonial revenge: Guy Boothby’s response to the ‘Egyptian Question’ in the vengeful mummy narrative Pharos the Egyptian (1899)"

Mar 4th: Dr. Andrew Power: "Seneca is for Everyone: The Art of Manipulating a Senecan Plot to any Political Purpose in Sixteenth-Century England"

Kate Roddy: "‘Martyrdom is not for Everyone’: The Art of the False Recantation in Sixteenth-Century England"

This seminar will be followed by a wine reception