{"id":4870,"date":"2010-01-21T13:13:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T18:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=4870"},"modified":"2019-05-14T13:29:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T17:29:21","slug":"4870_spring-2010-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-writing-excellence\/2010\/01\/21\/4870_spring-2010-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2010 talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone is welcome to attend.\u00a0 If you would like to meet any of the speakers for lunch or coffee, please let Lucy McDiarmid know (mcdiarmidl@gmail.com<\/a>, x4274).<\/p>\n

Thursday, February 4<\/strong>
\n2:30 pm, Dickson 432
\nProfessor James L. Pethica, Williams College
\nSpreading the News and Hyacinth Halvey<\/em> by Lady Gregory
\nProfessor Pethica will team-teach a class in these plays with Lucy McDiarmid.<\/p>\n

James Pethica is the editor of the Norton edition of Yeats’s poems, Lady Gregory’s Diaries, 1892-1902<\/em>, and the Cornell edition of Yeats’s Last Poems<\/em>.\u00a0 He is writing the definitive biography of Lady Gregory and has just been appointed director of the Yeats International Summer School in Sligo.<\/p>\n

Tuesday, February 9<\/strong>
\n5:30 pm, Dickson 179
\nProfessor Rhona Richman Kenneally, Concordia University, Montreal
\n“Reproducing the authentic Irish cottage: The Quiet Man<\/em> as text-film-museum”<\/p>\n

Rhona Richman Kenneally is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University, and a Fellow of Concordia\u2019s School of Canadian Irish Studies. She holds a B.A. in English literature, an M.A. in social history, and both a professional degree and a Ph.D. in architecture.\u00a0 She writes on Canadian food culture, especially as it relates to the domestic foodscape, and on architecture, landscape, and material culture as constructions of Irish and Canadian-Irish identity. She has just appointed editor of the Canadian Journal of Irish Studie<\/em>s.<\/p>\n

Tuesday, February 23<\/strong>
\n2:30 pm, Dickson 432
\nAnne Fogarty, Professor of James Joyce Studies, University College Dublin
\n“He’s out in pampooties to murder you”: James Joyce and the Legacy of John Millington Synge”<\/p>\n

Anne Fogarty is president of the International James Joyce Foundation and director of the UCD James Joyce Research Centre.\u00a0 She has been Academic Director of the Dublin James Joyce Summer School since 1997 and has edited many books about Joyce.\u00a0 Currently she is writing a study of the historical and political dimensions of Ulysses, entitled James Joyce and Cultural Memory: Reading History in Ulysses<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 13<\/strong>
\n5:30 pm, Dickson 179
\nProfessor Maria DiBattista, Princeton University
\n“Beckett and Derelict Comedy in Lenny Abramson’s film Adam and Paul<\/em>”
\n[dvd of this film will be available for faculty who wish to view it; it’s wonderful]<\/p>\n

Maria DiBattista is author of Fast-Talking Dames, a much-acclaimed book about the women in screwball comedies of the 1930s and 1940s.\u00a0\u00a0 She has also written First Love: The Affections of Modern Fiction, Virginia Woolf’s Major Novels<\/em>,\u00a0 and, most recently, Imagining Virginia Woolf: An Experiment in Critical Biography<\/em>.\u00a0 She teaches film and fiction at Princeton.<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 20<\/strong>
\n2:30 pm, Dickson 432
\nProfessor Nicholas Grene, Trinity College Dublin
\n[Contemporary Irish Drama]
\nProfessor Grene will speak on a recent Irish play, title TBA.
\nA text of the play will be made available to all faculty & students who would like to read it.<\/p>\n

Nicholas Grene is one of the foremost authorities on Irish and international theatre.\u00a0 He is the author of many books, including The Politics of Irish Drama<\/em>,\u00a0 Shakespeare’s Serial History Plays<\/em>, and Bernard Shaw: A Critical View<\/em>.\u00a0 He is editor of Interpreting Synge <\/em>and Shaw, Lady Gregory<\/em>, and the Abbey<\/em>, and many others.\u00a0 He was also the founding director of the Synge Summer School in Rathdrum, Co Wicklow, Ireland, and has served as a judge for the Irish Times<\/em> drama prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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