TCD STAFF POSTGRADUATE SEMINARS
MICHAELMAS TERM, 2009

7th Oct Professor Nicholas Grene, Shakespeare our Irish Contemporary?
to be followed by a wine reception in room 4017, Arts Block

14th Oct Dr Darragh Greene, Joyce's Wittgenstein; Wittgenstein's Joyce
Joshua Searle, ‘Surely the Second Coming is at Hand’: The Relevance of Apocalypticism for Literary Theory

21st Oct Dr Anne Brunon, The Foucault- Bentham Relationship: Panopticon, Panopticism and Governmentality

28th Oct Conor Reid, ‘My seething blade wove a net of death about me’: Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series and Mars
Kate Harvey, Illustrated Macbeth and Children’s Shakespeare

4th Nov Dr Sam Slote, On the Complexity of the 'Oxen of the Sun' episode of Ulysses

11th Nov Rachel Glover, (title to be confirmed)
Clare Hayes Brady, (title to be confirmed)

18th Nov Professor John Haffenden (University of Sheffield), ‘Mr Eliot somewhere says’;

or, the ‘affectation of unaffectedness’ in William Empson's ‘Seven Types of Ambiguity’

25th Nov Dr Jenny McDonnell, ‘Taak any bryd, and put it in a cage’: Katherine Mansfield's ‘Canary’ and Chaucer's ‘Tale of the Crow’
Dorothea Depner, ‘125921’: Memory, History and the Artist in Hugo Hamilton’s Disguise

2nd Dec Dr Elizabeth McCarthy, Fast Cars and Bullet Bras: The Image of the Female Juvenile Delinquent in the 1950s
Dr Dara Downey, Not of Germany, but of the Soul: Shades of the Old World in Stephen King's Salem's Lot

9th Dec Professor Nick Daly (UCD), /The/ /Last Days of Pompeii/: from Page to Stage, and from Pyrotechnics to Disaster Movie

16th Dec Panel on the Discipline of English: speakers to be announced

Seminars take place every Wednesday at 5.15 in room M20, Museum Building

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