LIST OF ACCEPTED PROPOSALS – UPDATED 27 February 2008
Below is a list of speakers whose proposals have been accepted by the organising committee for
IASIL 2008.
If you have received confirmation of acceptance from us, but your name, affiliation and paper
are not listed here, please send an email to iasil08@letras.up.pt as soon as possible. Likewise, if
your details are inaccurately given, please email the conference organisers as soon as possible.
Please note that speakers presenting papers in pre-arranged panels are individually listed below,
together with an indication of the panel in question.
The appearance of a person's name in the list below does not guarantee that that person will
attend IASIL 2008: all speakers must register for IASIL 2008; all speakers must be members of
IASIL.
Instructions for registration will be posted on the IASIL 2008 website by mid-March.
Aida Rosende Pérez ( University of Vigo , Spain )
Unmapped Territories : (Dis)Placing Irishness in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s The Dancers
Dancing
Alison O’Malley-Younger ( University of Sunderland , England , UK )
“The delirium of the brave”: Boucicault’s Robert Emmet
(Panel – Consuming Passions: Gaelicism, Gothicism, Heroism)
Amal Mazhar ( Cairo University , Egypt )
The Quest for Gender and National Identity in Christina Reid’s Plays
Amy Ward Bricker (The Catholic University of America, USA)
Between Homes: The Irish Nanny Tradition in Kate O’Brien’s Mary Lavelle and Claire
Keegan’s “Where the Water’s Deepest”
Angela Vaupel (St Mary’s University College Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK )
Irish Writing and Exile
Anne Karhio (National University of Ireland, Galway, Republic of Ireland )
“The kettledrum’s de dum de dum”: Music and Place in the Poetry of Paul
Muldoon
Anne Mulhall (University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland )
(Panel – Race, Gender and Bodies Out of Place)
Aoife Spillane-Hinks ( National University of Ireland , Galway, Republic of Ireland )
The Dublin Theatre Festival
(Panel – The Internationalisation of Irish Drama 1975-2005)
Arthur Broomfield (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Republic of Ireland )
Beckett, Absurd or Surd, What Is Going on in Waiting for Godot?
Athena Demetriou ( Oxford University , England , UK )
Place, Space and the Self in Northern Irish Fiction: Irish Identities Forged in Irish
Locales
Auxiliadora Pérez Vides ( University of Huelva , Spain )
The Rhetorics of Space in Post-Nationalist Ireland: Views and Reviews in Mary
Leland’s The Killeen
B. R. Siegfried ( Brigham Young University , Provo , USA )
Irishing Shakespeare in the American West: W. B. Yeats in the Utah Territories
Barbara Freitag ( Dublin City University , Republic of Ireland )
Hy Brasil: A Figment of the Imagination. Myth, Utopia and Exploration
Birte Wiemann ( University of Hull , England , UK )
“The Importance of Elsewhere”: Philip Larkin, Irishness and Influence
Borbála Faragó ( University College Dublin , Republic of Ireland )
(Panel – Race, Gender and Bodies Out of Place)
Brenda Winter ( Queens University Belfast , Northern Ireland , UK )
When Shiels Met Liberace: The Dramaturgy of a Practice as Research Production
Brian Dillon (Montana State University-Billings, USA )
Entering the Circle of Community by the Lake in John McGahern’s That They May Face
the Rising Sun
Brigitte Bastiat ( University of La Rochelle , France ), with Claudie Landy
The Hostage (Brendan Behan) by the Students’ Theatre Workshop of the University of
La Rochelle ( France ), 2008: from Space of Performance to Space of Learning
Britta Olinder ( Göteborg University , Sweden )
Northern Ireland and Elsewhere in Deirdre Madden’s Fiction
Bruce Stewart (University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK)
Doolally: Soldiering in the Empire - Irish Hybridity and its Limits
Caitriona Ni Chleirchin ( University College Dublin , Republic of Ireland )
Elsewheres: The Self and the True Home in the Poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
Carmen Szabo (University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland )
Place and Non-Place: Discussing Physicality and Identity in Barabbas Theatre’s Circus
Catherine Kilcoyne ( University College Dublin , Republic of Ireland )
David Wheatley and the Mobile “Non-Place” of the Car
Catherine Wynne ( University of Hull , England , UK )
One’s winter’s on the Nile , and one’s summer’s in the “Emerald Isle”: Elizabeth
Butler’s Exotic Landscapes
Caitriona Ni Chleirchin ( University College Dublin , Republic of Ireland )
Elsewheres: The Self and the True Home in the Poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
Christina Morin ( University College Cork , Republic of Ireland )
‘Unknown to Europeans’?: Heterotopic Visions in Melmoth the Wanderer
Chiara Sciarrino ( University of Palermo , Italy )
A Time in Rome: an Account of Elizabeth Bowen’s Stay in Italy
Christopher Berchild ( Indiana State University , USA )
“Home” and “Not Home”: The Cinematic Representation of Contemporary Irish Urban
Spaces
Christopher Morrison ( University of Wisconsin-Madison , USA )
The Real (British) Identity of McDonagh’s Blood-Soaked Lieutenant
Ciara Conneely ( University of Notre Dame , USA )
From Rock to Rock ‘n Roll – from Heavenly Hearth to Hellish Hole?: Displacement and
Disillusionment in the Poetry of Mairtin O Direain
Claire Bracken ( University College Dublin , Republic of Ireland )
(Panel – Race, Gender and Bodies Out of Place)
Claire Lynch ( University of Oxford , England , UK )
“Discover your Own Ireland ”: Virtual Ireland(s) for an International Audience
Claire Nally ( University of Hull , England , UK )
Simian Paddy and Irish Gothic: Le Fanu’s “Green Tea” and W. B Yeats’s Ghosts
(Panel – Consuming Passions: Gaelicism, Gothicism, Heroism)
Clare Wallace ( Charles University Prague , Czech Republic )
Lost Belongings? Stewart Parker’s Work for Television and Radio
Claudie Landy ( University of La Rochelle , France ), with Brigitte Bastiat
The Hostage (Brendan Behan) by the Students’ Theatre Workshop of the University of
La Rochelle ( France ), 2008: from Space of Performance to Space of Learning
Clíona Ní Ríordáin (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris , France )
“Perhaps now I understand the meaning of home”: Cork and Elsewhere in the Poetry
of Greg Delanty
Conor Carville (St. Mary’s University College , England , UK )
Heaney and the Neighbour
Csilla Bertha ( University of Debrecen , Hungary )
Home and Elsewhere: the Artist as Home-Searcher in Contemporary Irish drama
David M. Clark (University of A Coruña, Spain)
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
Dawn Duncan ( Concordia College-Moorhead , USA )
When Children Bring Parents Home: Travelling Past Grief to a Healing Place
Deborah Fleming ( Ashland University , USA )
The Miracle in the Actual: Transcendence in the Poems of Eamon Grennan
Domingos Nunez ( University of S. Paulo , Brazil )
An Idiot in an Absurd Country: Recontextualizing Bernard Shaw’s Simpleton in a
Contemporary Tropical Landscape
Donald E Morse ( University of Debrecen , Hungary )
Bedrock Utopia: Sam Baneham’s The Cloud of Destruction
Donatella Abbate Badin ( University of Turin , Italy )
Cross-cultural (Ex)Changes on the Grand Tour: Lady Morgan and the Italian
Intelligentsia
Eamonn Dunne (University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland )
Nothing to be One: Reading Beckett’s Malone Dies
Eleftheria Kavazi ( University of Oxford , England , UK )
At Home and Elsewhere in Samuel Beckett’s Drama: Mapping out the Geographic and
Linguistic Coordinates in Performance and Script
Elena Cotta Ramusino ( University of Studi di Pavia , Italy )
Home as Elsewhere: The Speckled People by Hugo Hamilton
Elisabeth Delattre (Université d’Artois, France )
Travelling through the “Land of Nod and Wink” in The Twelfth of Never by Ciaran
Carson
Elsa Meihuizen ( University of Zululand , South Africa )
Richard Murphy and the Connemara Landscape
Emilie Pine ( University College Dublin , Republic of Ireland )
The Space of History
Emily Cullen ( National University of Ireland , Galway, Republic of Ireland )
Harp Strings and the Spaces In-Between: Colonial Constructions of the Irish Harp and
the Resonance of Otherness
Emma Radley ( University College Dublin , Republic of Ireland )
(Panel – Race, Gender and Bodies Out of Place)
Enrica Cerquoni (Independent Scholar, Dublin )
Staging the Invisible: Images of Woman and Space in Anne Devlin’s After Easter
Eve Walsh Stoddard (St. Lawrence University , USA )
Resistant Identities: Contested Notions of Belonging in the Irish Diaspora
Fionna Barber ( Manchester Metropolitan University , England , UK )
The Revenant in the Studio: Francis Bacon and the Restaging of Irish Art History
Frank Molloy ( Charles Sturt University , Australia )
“Home” and “Reach” - The Irish and Identity in the New World: Joseph O’Connor’s
Redemption Falls and Kevin Baker’s Paradise Alley
George S. Lensing (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
Seamus Heaney and William Carleton: the Aggravated Man in “Station Island”
Gioia Gamerra ( University of Florence , Italy )
Physical and Literary Spaces: Liminal and Domestic Places in the Poems of Longley and
McGuckian
Giovanna Tallone (University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore , Italy )
The Persecution of Writing: Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s Fox, Swallow, Scarecrow
Gisele G. Wolkoff ( University of São Paulo , Brazil )
Somewhere, Elsewhere: “Should we have stayed at home, wherever that may be?”
Graham Price (University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland )
“The dandy’s holiday”: Wildean Echoes in John McGahern’s That They May Face the
Rising Sun
Guinn Batten ( Washington University in St. Louis , USA )
Contemporary Irish Poetry and Celtic Revivalism: Melancholia, Violence, and the Ethics
of Crisis
Hiroko Mikami ( Waseda University , Japan )
Tom Murphy’s Famine (1968) in the Context of Irish (Theatrical) History
Ian R. Walsh (University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland )
“Mad wren’s nest making in a cloud”: Jack B. Yeats’s Harlequin’s Positions and the
Postdramatic Performance Space
Ilaria Natali ( University of Florence , Italy )
The Multidirectional Writing Process: James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man
Irena Grubica ( University of Rijeka , Croatia )
Forging Cultural Memory in Joyce’s Ulysses: Negotiating Ireland as Textual
Unconscious
Jacqueline Hurtley ( University of Barcelona , Spain )
Francis Stuart in Franco’s Spain
James [Séamus] J. Blake ( Fordham University , USA )
Breandán Ó Doibhlin, Major Translator of Classic French Literary Texts: Enhancing the
Cosmopolitan Presence of Irish Gaelic Literature
James McDonnell ( Carleton College , USA )
Varieties of Loneliness in the Stories of Frank O’Connor
Jana Fischerova ( University College Dublin , Republic of Ireland )
Unwanted at Home: Frank O’Connor and Censorship
(Panel – Censorship at Home and Elsewhere)
Jane Moore ( Cardiff University , Wales )
“Written in exile”: A Bicentennial Re-assessment of Moore ’s Irish Melodies and
Corruption and Intolerance. A Satire
Jenny Mc Carthy (National University of Ireland Galway, Republic of Ireland )
“An artist of Gaelic Ireland ”: Jack B Yeats and Life in the West of Ireland
Jeremy Parrott ( Szeged University , Hungary )
Bing and Nothingness: the Last Named Agonist in Samuel Beckett’s Fiction
Joachim Fischer ( University of Limerick , Republic of Ireland )
Mehr Licht? The Shannon Scheme and Irish Utopian Discourse in the 1920s
(Panel – Irish Utopias/Dystopias in the 19th and 20th Centuries)
Joan FitzPatrick Dean (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA )
The Theatrical Uses of The Tain: Macnas (1992) and Fabulous Beast (2005)
Jody Allen Randolph ( University of Santa Barbara , USA )
“The past is a different country”: Elegy, Ecopoetics and Environmental Memory in
Recent Work by Boland, Meehan, Muldoon and Longley
John Hildebidle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology , USA )
Irish (Dis)Locations: Three Maps
John Redmond ( University of Liverpool , England , UK )
“Unlikely as a foetus”: The Influence of Sylvia Plath on Seamus Heaney
John Strachan ( University of Sunderland , England , UK )
The Cultural History of Advertising in Ireland 1848-1916
(Panel – Consuming Passions – Gaelicism, Gothicism, Heroism)
Jonathan Statham (Royal Holloway, University of London , England , UK )
“Music of a lost kingdom”: Geographical Metaphysics in the Plays for Dancers of W. B.
Yeats
Jorge Bastos da Silva ( University of Oporto , Portugal )
Sheridan Knowles and the Reception of Shakespeare in Portugal : the Lectures on
Dramatic Literature (1845)
José Lanters (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)
The Impossible Promise of Innocence Untouched: the Child in Thomas Kilroy’s The
Secret Fall of Constance Wilde and My Scandalous Life
José Manuel Estévez-Saá ( University of A Coruña, Spain )
The Secret World of the Irish Male and The Irish Male at Home and Abroad:
Humorous Spaces in Joseph O’Connor
José-Miguel Alonso-Giráldez ( University of A Coruña , Spain )
Rewriting the Female Body: Spaces of Resistance and Subversion in Medbh
McGuckian’s Late Poems
Juan Ignacio Oliva (University La Laguna, Spain )
Jamie O’Neill’s (De)Constructing National Heroism: Another Irish Identity Rewritten
Julie Donovan
Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) in the Victorian Era
Julie McCormick ( Texas A&M University , USA )
The Empire and Gambling in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda
Karen Marguerite Moloney ( Weber State University , USA )
Gents to the Right, Ladies to the Left: Irish Poets Respond to Patricia Coughlan
Kathleen Jacquette ( State University of New York . USA )
Irish Motherhood Revisited: The Light of Evening by Edna O’Brien
Kathryn Kirkpatrick (Appalachian State University , USA )
Outside/Inside: Rewriting Public and Private Space in the Work of Paula Meehan
Keiko Kikuchi ( Waseda University , Japan )
The Sense of Being Human as a Border: Samuel Beckett’s Film
Ken Monteith (City University of New York, USA)
Disabling Narrative: Locating Identity in Pádraic Ó Conaire’s Exile
Ken’ichi Matsumura ( Chuo University , Japan )
Adrift on the Seas: Penitential Exile and Fudaraku
Kevin Farrell (The Catholic University of America , USA )
Who Fears to Speak of Easter Week?: Joyce, Pearse, and the Easter Rising in Ulysses
Laura Maria Lojo-Rodríguez ( University of Santiago de Compostela , Spain )
Maternal Spaces in Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry
(Panel – Contemporary Irish Women Poets)
Laura O’Connor ( University of California Irvine , USA )
Medbh Mc Guckian and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin: Translating Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
Lauren Arrington (St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford , England , UK )
Censoring Irish Theatre at Home and Elsewhere
(Panel – Censorship at Home and Elsewhere)
Ligia Constantinescu (‘Al I Cuza’ University , Romania )
Romanian Selves ‘in transit’ through Some (Late 20th Century) Irish Texts: the Power
of Dialogism and ‘Troping’
Linda Pui Ling Wong ( Hong Kong Baptist University , China )
Notions of Space and Self in James Joyce and Selected Chinese Writers
Lisa Coen ( Trinity College Dublin , Republic of Ireland )
The Abbey Abroad
(Panel – The Internationalisation of Irish Drama 1975-2005)
Louise Fuller (National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Republic of Ireland )
Religion, the Writer’s Imagination and Identity: Reflections
Lucy Collins ( University College Dublin , Republic of Ireland )
Derek Mahon and Spatial Form
Luz Mar González Arias ( University of Oviedo , Spain )
The Landscapes of Pain: Enabling Bodily Experiences in the Poetry of Celia de Fréine
and Dorothy Molloy
(Panel – Contemporary Irish Women Poets)
Máire Nic an Bhaird ( University College Dublin , Republic of Ireland )
The Irish Language Writer and the State
(Panel – Censorship at Home and Elsewhere)
Mairéad Conneely ( University of Limerick , Republic of Ireland )
Living on the Edges of Elsewhere: Tracing the Utopian and Real Geographies of Aran
Island Literature
Máirín Nic Eoin (St Patrick’s College, Dublin , Republic of Ireland )
Ar an gCoigríoch: Migration Narratives in Twentieth-century and Contemporary Gaelic
Literature
Malcolm Ballin ( Cardiff University , Wales , UK )
Regional Themes in Periodicals: 1930 - 2008
Manuel Casas Guijarro ( University of Seville , Spain )
Filming Ulysses as a Consented Hyperrealistic Simulacrum: Metafilmic Devices in Sean
Walsh’s Bloom (2004)
Manuela Palacios-González ( University of Santiago de Compostela , Spain ), with Maria Xesús
Nogueira Pereira
Endangered Landscapes: the Poets’ Interventions in Ireland and Galicia
(Panel – Contemporary Irish Women Poets)
Manus O Duibhir ( University of Santiago de Compostela , Spain )
Horsing Around: Placing the Animal in Heaney and Muldoon
Marcin Cieniuch ( Adam Mickiewicz University , Poland )
Unhomeliness of Home – Homelessness of Abroad: Longing for Home in the Poetry of
Paul Durcan
Margaret Kelleher (National University of Ireland Maynooth, Republic of Ireland )
“Irish doesn’t sell the cow”?: Bilingualism and the Current State of Irish Studies
María Graciela Adamoli ( National University of La Pampa , Argentina )
Artistic Creation: A Utopian Space of Survival
María Graciela Eliggi ( National University of La Pampa , Argentina )
Heterotopias and Identity: the Construction of Irish Characters ‘in Transit’ in the
Fiction of Margaret Atwood and Juan José Delaney
María Jesús Lorenzo Modia ( University of A Coruña , Spain )
Illness and the Irish Question in Medbh McGuckian’s Poetry
María Leticia del Toro García ( University of Las Palmas , Spain )
Susan Howe’s Ireland: the Quest for Identity
Maria Xesús Nogueira Pereira (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), with Manuela
Palacios-González
Endangered Landscapes: the Poets’ Interventions in Ireland and Galicia
(Panel – Contemporary Irish Women Poets)
Marie Arndt ( Thames Valley University , England , UK )
Home and Elsewhere: Irish and Other Exilic Identities
Marie Mianowski ( University of Nantes , France )
Commuting Back Home: the Landscape of Suburban Exile in Dermot Bolger’s Going
Home (1990)and The Valparaiso Voyage (2002)
Mariko Hori Tanaka ( Aoyama Gakuin University , Japan )
Beckett and Portugal
Marisol Morales Ladrón ( University of Alcalá , Spain )
Ann Enright’s The Gathering and the Voyage to Self-discovery
Mark O’Connell (Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland )
“Hardly Oirish at all, at all”: Narcissism, Shame and Irish Identity in John Banville’s
The Untouchable
Mark Phelan (Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK )
Stewart Parker: The Northern Star
Mark Schreiber (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany)
Mirror Up to Tiger: Screening the Margins of Irish Society in the films of Lenny
Abrahamson and Mark O’Halloran
(Panel – Screening the Tiger: Trends in Contemporary Irish Cinema)
Mary Helen Thuente ( North Carolina State University , USA )
The Harp Icon as a Palimpsest of Irish Identity
Mary Massoud ( Ain Shams University , Egypt )
The Dilemma of 18th Century Irish Writers
Maryna Romanets ( University of Northern British Columbia , Canada )
“The Queen of Crooks”: The (Re)construction of Female Subjectivity in Chicago May
Matthew Campbell ( University of Sheffield , England , UK )
Origins of the Harp in Moore and Maclise
Matthew Gibson ( University of Central Lancashire , England , UK )
Yeats and Pierre Duhem: the Great Year of the Ancients and the Metempsychosis of
the Soul
Maura Tarnoff ( Saint Louis University , Madrid Campus , Spain )
Domestic Property and Irish Colonial Space in Spenser’s Amoretti and Epithalamion
Maureen S. G. Hawkins ( University of Lethbridge , Canada )
David Rudkin's Ireland
Maureen Reddy ( Rhode Island College , USA )
(Panel – Race, Gender and Bodies Out of Place)
Megan Buckley, M.A. (National University of Ireland , Galway, Republic of Ireland )
“Feeling that the room had no walls”: Moya Cannon’s Creative Spaces
Melita Cataldi ( University of Torino , Italy )
Unparallel Worlds: from Echtra Nerai to James Stephens’ In the Land of Youth
Michael A. Moir, Jr. (Catholic University of America, USA)
“The garden is going to rack”: the Impossibility of Pastoral in Louis MacNeice’s
Eclogues
Michael G. Kelly ( University of Limerick , Republic of Ireland )
Ar Slí na Fírinne: Liminal Community and Utopian Polyphony in Cré na Cille
(Panel: Irish Utopias/Dystopias in the 19th and 20th Centuries)
Michael Kenneally ( Concordia University , Canada )
Home Re-Visited and Re-Imagined: Textual Irelands by Nineteenth-Century IrishCanadian Immigrants
Michael O’Sullivan ( Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, Japan )
Educating Ireland : the Transformation of Irish Humanities Education
Michael Parker ( University of Central Lancashire , England , UK )
Bifocal Visions: Heaney, Morrissey and 9/11
Michaela Schrage-Früh (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany)
“Aren’t we citizens of the world?”: Irish Diaspora and its (Dis)contents in
Contemporary Irish Literature
Mitchell Harris ( Brigham Young University , USA )
The Lone Self: How Relationships Contextualize Identity Assertions in Irish Literature
Mónica Amenedo Costa (University of A Coruña. Spain)
A Home Elsewhere: An Account of the Irish in Ferrol - Inscribing Body and Community
Monica Facchinello ( University of Leeds , England , UK )
Multiple Crossings: Selves in Transit in John Banville’s The Untouchable and Thomas
Kilroy’s Double Cross
Munira H. Mutran ( University of São Paulo , Brazil )
“The poem is the true story. / The true story is a lie”: Paul Durcan’s Portraits of
Contemporary Ireland and Elsewhere
Naoko Toraiwa ( Meiji University , Japan )
Between the Visible and the Invisible: Sinead Morrissey's Reading of the Body
Neal Alexander ( University of Wales , UK )
Revised Versions: Place and Memory in Ciaran Carson’s Writing
Neil Mann ( St Louis University , Madrid Campus , Spain )
Chance and Choice: Fate in Yeats’s A Vision and the Later Works
Niamh Hehir ( University of Limerick , Republic of Ireland )
(Panel – Race, Gender and Bodies Out of Place)
Nicholas James Illich ( University of Guam )
The Power of Inishmore: Towards a Social Ecofeminist Utopia in Liam O’Flaherty’s The
Informer
Nicholas Meihuizen ( University of Zululand , South Africa )
Beckett and Coetzee: Imaginary Lives
Noboru Kataoka ( Waseda University , Japan )
An Analysis of Irregularity in Beckett’s Quad
Noélia Borges (Universidade Federal da Bahia , Brazil )
Spaces of History and Identity in The Wind that Shakes the Barley
Noriko Ito ( Tezukayama University , Japan )
Space in Enright’s The Gathering, Banville’s The Sea, and Murdoch’s The Sea, The Sea
Ondrej Pilný ( Charles University Prague , Czech Republic )
Home and Elsewhere Both in Her Eyes: Revelations of the Stair in Beckett, Yeats and
Joyce
Paddy Lyons ( University of Glasgow , Scotland , UK )
Not Swallowing the Stories: Martin McDonagh’s Dramaturgy
(Panel – Consuming Passions: Gaelicism, Gothicism, Heroism)
Patricia A. Lynch ( University of Limerick , Republic of Ireland )
Utopia in Contemporary Irish Popular Fiction: Roddy Doyle’s Leftist Heaven
Patricia Coughlan ( National University of Ireland , Cork , Republic of Ireland )
(Panel – Race, Gender and Bodies Out of Place)
Patricia L. Hagen (The College of St. Scholastica , USA )
Sous Text and Sur Text: Surrealist Reciprocity in the Painting Poems of Paul Durcan
Patricia Oliveira da Silva McNeill (King’s College London, England, UK )
Home and “Elsewhere”: Spatial Representation in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats and
Fernando Pessoa
Patrick Burke ( Dublin City University , Republic of Ireland )
“The Death of Kings”: Play into Film
Patrick Lonergan (National University of Ireland, Galway, Republic of Ireland )
"I do repent and yet do despair": Selling the Irish Soul in Conor McPherson's The
Seafarer and Mark O'Rowe's Terminus
Paul O’Brien ( Dublin , Republic of Ireland )
Sean O’Casey: an Exiles Construction of Home
Paul Stewart ( University of Nicosia , Cyprus )
Sexual and Aesthetic Reproduction in Malone Dies
Peter James Harris (The State University of São Paulo , Brazil )
Sean O’Casey’s Red Roses for Me: the Irish Exile and the London Critics
Peter R. Kuch ( University of Otago , New Zealand )
Irishness on the 19th Century Australasian Stage
Raphael Ingelbien ( University of Leuven , Belgium )
Dis-placing the Irish Famine? Elizabeth Gaskell’s “The Poor Clare” as an Irish Famine
Text
Rebecca Troeger ( Boston College , USA )
Re-mapping Rock Music: the Musical Ethnoscapes of Roddy Doyle and Salman Rushdie
Rhona Richman Kenneally ( Concordia University , Canada )
“Salted and unsalted life”: Food and Culture in Sebastian Barry’s Annie Dunne
Rina Kikuchi ( Shiga University , Japan )
The First Two Translations of Chamber Music in Japan : How the Act of Translation
Influenced Japanese Prose-Poetry
Robert Brazeau ( University of Alberta , Canada )
The “Promise” of Metropolitan Modernity in Sean O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy
Robert Finnigan ( University of Sunderland , England , UK )
Fenian Guards or Faustian Gothic: Dion Boucicault’s Irish Drama
Róisin Ní Ghairbhí (St. Patrick’s College, Republic of Ireland)
Mise Éire?: a Re-examination of Patrick Pearse's Gaelic Nationalism
Ros Dixon (National University of Ireland, Galway, Republic of Ireland)
From Riot to Riotous Laughter: the Playboy at the Abbey 1907 and 2007
Rosalie Rahal Haddad ( University of São Paulo , Brazil )
The Aesthetics of Shaw’s Plays
Ruben Moi ( University of Tromsø , Norway )
“No more poems about paintings?”: the State of the Arts in Contemporary Poetics from
Northern Ireland
Ryuji Ishikawa (University of the Ryukyus, Japan )
The Poetics of the Wind: Reverberating Harmony of the Harp
Samira Halim Basta (Ain Shams University, Egypt)
Boucicault's Cinematic Sensation Drama
Samuele Grassi ( University of Florence , Italy )
Women Performing Women in Charabanc Theatre Company Productions
Sarah Balen (National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies, ITT Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
City Spaces and Spirituality in the poetry of Peter Sirr and Fernando Pessoa
Seán Crosson (National University of Ireland, Galway, Republic of Ireland )
“The hurley is the new chainsaw”: Hurling and Horror in Contemporary Irish Cinema
(Panel – Screening the Tiger: Trends in Contemporary Irish Cinema)
Shane Alcobia-Murphy ( University of Aberdeen , Scotland , UK )
“If I prolonged the look to rediscover your face”: Medbh McGuckian’s Ekphrastic
Elegies
Shannon Forbes (University of St. Thomas , USA )
Frank McCourt’s America: the Rhetoric of Narrative Technique in Angela’s Ashes
Shaun Richards (Staffordshire University , England , UK )
From Paradise to Perdition: the Place of America in Irish Drama
Shelley Troupe (National University of Ireland , Galway, Republic of Ireland )
The Druid Theatre Company
(Panel: The Internationalisation of Irish Drama 1975-2005)
Shonagh Hill (Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK )
The Possibilities of Becoming: Metamorphosis in The Mai
Simon Kress (Emory University , USA )
“The pictures plain”: Sympathetic Pleasure and the Reading of Violence in the Poetry
of Derek Mahon
Simon Workman (Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland )
“The patron saint of elsewhere”: Nick Laird as a MacNeician Traveller
Sinéad Moynihan ( University of Nottingham , England , UK )
A Darker Shade of Green: Race and Immigration in Ronan Noone’s The Blowin of Baile
Gall
Susan Cahill ( University College Dublin , Republic of Ireland )
(Panel – Race, Gender and Bodies Out of Place)
Stanley van der Ziel(University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland )
Making History: John McGahern’s The Leavetaking
Stephanie Schwerter (Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK )
Home and Elsewhere - Northern Ireland and Europe : Paulin’s Versions of Poems by
Brecht, Rimbaud and Mayakovsky
Stephen Graf ( University of Newcastle , England , UK )
“Morning is the time to hide… Day is the time for lynching”: Nietzsche & The Dystopic
Anti-Ireland of Samuel Beckett’s Molloy
Sylvie Mikowski ( University of Reims-Champagne-Ardenne , France )
The Artist as Exile: Colum McCann’s Dancer and Zoli
Thomas W. Zelman ( College of St. Scholastica , USA )
400 Shades of Green: Ireland ’s New Residents and the Literature of Home
Tom Moylan ( University of Limerick , Republic of Ireland )
Cognitive (Re)Mapping: Sublations of Utopian, Dystopian, and Heterotopian Space in
Notes from a Coma
(Panel – Irish Utopias/Dystopias in the 19th and 20th Centuries)
Tom Walker ( University of Oxford , England , UK )
‘The indifferent cairn’: Louis MacNeice and Ulster Regionalism
Tony Murray ( London Metropolitan University , England , UK )
“Diaspora Space” in the Literature of the Post-War Irish in London
Tony Tracy (National University of Ireland, Galway, Republic of Ireland )
Tiger’s Tales: Masculinity in Celtic Tiger Cinema
(Panel – Screening the Tiger: Trends in Contemporary Irish Cinema)
Toru Sato ( Aoyama Gakuin University , Japan )
Two Versions of Antigone in Northern Ireland : Seamus Heaney’s The Burial at Thebes
(2004)and Tom Paulin’s The Riot Act (1984)
Ute Anna Mittermaier (Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland )
”Farewell Spain”: an Imagological Reading of Kate O’Brien’s Elegy to Wartorn Spain
Vanessa Silva Fernández ( University of Vigo , Spain )
Voices by the Atlantic: the Reappropriation of Female Experience in Ireland and Galicia
Viviane Carvalho da Annunciação ( University of São Paulo , Brazil )
Scattered Speculations on the Question of the Subaltern in the recent poetry of
Seamus Heaney and Eiléan Ní Chuilleáin
Waclaw Grzybowski ( University of Opole , Poland )
The Space of Irish Consciousness in Thomas MacGreevy’s Poetry
Wei H. Kao ( National Taiwan University , Taiwan )
Iris Murdoch’s The Servants and the Snow: Colonialism and Resistance in an Ignored
Irish Drama
Werner Huber ( Universität Wien , Austria )
“There goes a calf [sheep]”: on Aspects of Intertextuality/Intermediality in Martin
McDonagh’s Six Shooter
(Panel – Screening the Tiger: Trends in Contemporary Irish Cinema)
William Atkinson (Appalachian State University , USA )
Beyond Representation: Place and Space in Synge
Xiurong Wei ( University of Macau , China )
Fact and Truth in Siobhan Dowd’s A Swift Pure Cry and Jean Haff Korelitz’s The
Sabbathday River
Youngmin Kim ( Dongguk University , Korea )
Transnational Texts & Translocal Strategies in Yeats, Heaney, Muldoon, and Mahon
Youngsuk Kyong ( Waseda University , Japan )
The Performing Hands of the Writer: “Separation” in Beckett’s Ohio Impromptu
Yu-chen Lin ( National Sun Yat-sen University , Taiwan )
Ireland on Tour: Riverdance, “the Celtic Tiger,” and Cultural Tourism
Zuzanna Zarebska Sanches ( University of Lisboa , Portugal )
Narrating Identity: the Case of Elizabeth Bowen