Wednesday, March 17, 2021
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (ET)
Zoom Meeting
Event Type
Lecture
Department
Irish Studies Program
Link
https://ems.bridgew.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=47306
Please
join the Bridgewater State
University Irish Studies Program and the Fordham University Institute of Irish
Studies for Collaborative Writing in Irish Studies, a virtual panel
discussion, on Wednesday, March 17, from 12-1:30 p.m. Joseph Valente and Margot Backus,
authors of The Child Sex Scandal and
Modern Irish Literature: Writing the Unspeakable, and Michael Rubenstein and Justin
Neuman, authors of Modernism and Its
Environments, will discuss the process of writing a monograph collaboratively and
explore the theoretical ramifications of breaking down the single-author
expectation of publication with Ellen Scheible of BSU and Keri Walsh of
Fordham.
The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature: Writing the Unspeakable examines literary engagements with a series of twentieth-century
sex scandals that serially transformed Ireland’s moral and political landscape.
Joseph
Valente is UB Distinguished Professor of English and Disability Studies at the
University at Buffalo. Treasurer of the International Yeats Society and Vice
President of the Northeastern Modern Language Association, he has authored more
than 65 works, including Dracula’s Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness
and the Question of Blood.
Margot Backus is Professor of English at the University of
Houston. She is the author of Scandal Work: James Joyce, the New
Journalism, and the Home Rule Newspaper Wars, and the prize-winning The Gothic Family Romance:
Heterosexuality and Child Sacrifice in the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order.
Modernism and Its
Environments argues that ecocritical and environmentalist approaches have
fundamentally altered our understanding of both modernism and the field of
modernist studies.
Michael Rubenstein is Associate Professor of English at SUNY Stony
Brook. He is the author of Public Works: Infrastructure, Irish
Modernism, and the Postcolonial, which received the Modernist Studies
Association Prize for a Distinguished book and the American Conference for
Irish Studies Robert Rhodes Prize for the Book on Literature.
Justin Neuman is Adjunct
Professor of English at the Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School.
He is the author of Fictions Beyond Secularism, where he argues that
contemporary novelists identified as antireligious have instead written some of
the most rigorous inquiries into the legacies of the religious imagination.
The event is open to
the BSU community and the public. For the Zoom meeting link, email Dr. Ellen
Scheible: escheible@bridgew.edu