MLA Commons | LLC Irish | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/irish/ Activity feed for the group, LLC Irish. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:14:26 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 714a70277e8d752077a7c59d1bdb2fd3 Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Ciaran Carson: A Memorial Tribute (10 October 2019) in the group LLC Irish https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1817173/ Tue, 11 Oct 2022 02:34:01 -0400 This memorial tribute for the late Ciaran Carson (1948-2019), Irish creative writer extraordinaire, was commissioned three years ago for inclusion in a special number of “Reading Ireland” which has not yet materialised. It is now archived in and by Humanities Common on the third anniversary of his funeral rites and burial in Belfast, Northern…[Read more]

]]> 0 a3c397c50f9dd0c074baa18110c14a3b Ellen Scheible started the topic How can the Irish forum help you? in the discussion LLC Irish https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/irish/forum/topic/how-can-the-irish-forum-help-you/ Mon, 24 Jan 2022 19:33:03 -0500 Dear members,

As a member of the MLA Irish LLC, I am writing to begin a discussion about the way that the Irish forum could be most useful for your work and engagement. What kinds of posts, links, or connections would you like to see here? How can we best use this forum to connect with each other and encourage community building and…[Read more]

]]> 0 c681926ec988bab708282363a72b7482 Liam Lanigan started the topic Executive Committee Election: Liam Lanigan in the discussion LLC Irish https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/irish/forum/topic/executive-committee-election-liam-lanigan/ Fri, 16 Oct 2020 20:51:23 -0400 A chairde,

I’m very pleased and honoured to have been nominated for election to the Irish forum executive committee. This Fall I was appointed Assistant Professor of British and European Literature at Governors State University in Chicago, having spent the last two years as a VAP at Texas Woman’s University. Previously I was the NEH Keough…[Read more]

]]> 0 41f8298c4726a66a75f15b524c30ca4d Ellen Scheible started the topic Executive Committee Election: Ellen Scheible in the discussion LLC Irish https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/irish/forum/topic/executive-committee-election-ellen-scheible/ Tue, 06 Oct 2020 11:40:08 -0400 Dear Members,

I am grateful and honored to have been nominated for the executive committee and would love the opportunity to represent four-year regional state universities as well as undergraduate Irish Studies programs at the regional level. I am an associate professor of English at Bridgewater State University where I teach modern and…[Read more]

]]> 0 49e4b3b0db46b83404c0e8169354ac78 David Squires deposited Roger Casement’s Queer Archive in the group LLC Irish https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1615277/ Sat, 11 Aug 2018 04:11:59 -0400 Growing interest in the archive as an object of study for queer criticism justifies closer attention to the concept of provenance. For archivists, provenance imparts a fundamental measure of integrity to archival collections by certifying their origin and proper order. Record origin and order, however, rely on authorial identity to establish…[Read more]

]]> 0 0597a088b5ebcfd2cbb8aa0cc93efe16 Matthew Reznicek deposited A City She Must Postpone: The Parisian Geography of Kate O'Brien's Bildungsromane in the group LLC Irish https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1609224/ Sat, 26 May 2018 04:13:02 -0400 By reading each of the novels of Kate O’Brien’s oeuvre as ‘a travel story’, just as we read Balzac’s Père Goriot, it becomes necessary to read them as ‘a spatial practice’, a narrative that locates itself in and responds to a specific space. The specific geography of Kate O’Brien’s Parisian novels of development, Without My Cloak (1931), The…[Read more]

]]> 0 3fa4e9db8680e7ceaca0d0f1800b9ef1 Patrick R. O'Malley started the topic Executive Committee Election: O'Malley in the discussion Anglo-Irish Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/irish/forum/topic/executive-committee-election-omalley/ Wed, 25 Oct 2017 21:20:18 -0400 Dear colleagues,

I’m honored to have been nominated for a position on the executive committee of the LLC Irish forum this year and I want here to give you some information about me and my work. I’m an associate professor in the English Department at Georgetown University, where I’m an active member of our recently formed Irish Studies Initi…[Read more]

]]> 0 94f21739d058e68ac2f07a73f5c31459 James Gifford deposited NOTES Murphy in the group LLC Irish https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1563331/ Sun, 26 Feb 2017 20:24:12 -0500 Lecture/class notes on Samuel Beckett’s Murphy. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.

]]> 0 df020575929a64a69c849840118fc3b0 James Gifford deposited “Per omnia saecula saeculorum” or “Inkaba yakho iphi?”: Indigeneity in Alex La Guma and Aidan Higgins in the group LLC Irish https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/532891/ Wed, 28 Oct 2015 12:20:30 -0400 This article argues for an overlapping notion of indigeneity in Alex La Guma’s In the Fog of the Seasons’ End and Aidan Higgins’ Langrishe, Go Down articulated using critical Aboriginal Studies while exploring the materialist emergence of identity. The key tension, then, is not between both authors’ progressive politics nor the real differences b…[Read more]

]]> 0 22ba2c8221ff69329825abf99084e72a Jeremy Colangelo deposited The Grotesque Gigantic: Stephen Hero, Maximalism, and Bakhtin in the group Anglo-Irish Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/134908/ Wed, 20 May 2015 21:13:58 -0400 My intention is to reorient Stephen Hero’s position in Joyce’s oeuvre, viewing it not simply as a precursor to A Portrait but instead as a first attempt at the kind of expansive narrative Joyce would undertake in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. What I wish to narrate is not primarily the story of Stephen Hero’s failure, but instead the story of how J…[Read more]

]]> 0 097528c21bd836b4fffe6183bbe435d3 Kevin Stevens started the topic Joyce Studies Annual 2015 CFP in the forum Anglo-Irish Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/anglo-irish-literature/forum/topic/joyce-studies-annual-2015-cfp/ Wed, 31 Dec 2014 21:10:43 -0500 Joyce Studies Annual has issued its annual call for papers.  Please note that the deadline is February 15, 2015 for the 2015 volume.

JSA welcomes manuscripts of up to 50 pages on any aspect of James Joyce studies:
• Archival
• Theoretical
• Comparative
• Historical

Fordham University Press uses Chicago Manual of Style format. Please send elec…[Read more]

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