English Graduate Seminar Series
English Graduate Society
Seminar Series: 2012 Semester 2
4.00pm – 6.00pm in H205, Humanities Institute of Ireland
14th February
“The Disputed Authorship of Brendan Behan’s The Hostage”
David Clare (UCD)
45 minute paper: 6pm – 8pm
21st February
“The Unreliable Narrator: an ethical reading of the narrator's role in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas”
Noelle Hewetson (UCD)
“Globalization and Post-Nationalism in Rana Dasgupta’s Solo”
Treasa de Loughry (UCD)
28th February
“Language: to Beckett the real”
Special Guest Lecturer: Dr. Arthur Broomfield (Independent Researcher)
45 minute paper
6th March
“‘I-wis pere nas nond, / Alas, he sold be dede!’: Piers of Bermingham – lament for a prized/false knight?”
Pat O’Brien (UCD)
45 minute paper
13th March
"Nationality and Deconstruction of Homogenous Racial Discourse in the 'Cyclops' episode of Ulysses.”
Marie Coffey (UCC)
"A Disability to Achieve Abstraction": Sense in Finnegans Wake
Siobhán Purcell (NUIG)
27th March
“The Attack on Individualism in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and its historical context”
Kieran Fitzpatrick (NUIG)
45 minute paper
3rd April
“Travel and Place in J.M. Synge and Revival Travel Narratives”
Giulia Bruna (UCD)
“‘The Dead’ and ‘Frost at Midnight’: Smashing Romanticism of the West of Ireland”
Zan Cammack (NUIG)
10th April
“Questions of Gender and Identity in the Work and Life of W. B. Yeats”
Ervin Felic (UCD)
“'Irish poetry in Italy: aspects of translation in Medbh McGuckian's "Passione per l'Aria”
Deborah Biancheri (NUIG)
Room C110 Newman Building
18th April
“‘The Positive Performance of POZ: Queer Theatre Rises to the Challenges of HIV’ Stigma”
Cormac O’Brien (UCD)
45 minute paper
24th April
“‘El Hombre Imperial’: Vision, Visibility, and the Image in Naked Lunch.”
Ben Miller (UCD)
“‘Silence exile and cunning’ in Rushdie's Satanic Verses.”
Pauric Havlin (UCD)
25th April
EGS Staff Research Seminar
Speaker TBA
For more information, or to submit a paper for the Semester 1 2012 seminar series please email: Englishgradsoc@ucd.ie
Also keep up to date with the EGS Website and EGS on Facebook
&nb