The next talk for the Columbia Irish Studies Seminar will take place on Friday May 2, 2014. Mary Burke will be giving the talk entitled “The Identity that Dare Not Speak its Name: Scots-Irishness, Henry James, and Colm Tóibín’s The Master.” As usual, we’ll meet at 7pm in Faculty House for dinner, and the talk will commence in an adjacent room at 8pm. As usual, the seminar will meet at 7pm in Faculty House for dinner, and the talk will commence in an adjacent room at 8pm.
Associate Professor Mary Burke is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and Queen’s University Belfast and she joined the English Department of the University of Connecticut in 2004, where she specializes in twentieth-century Irish literature. She was the NEH Keough Fellow at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame in 2003-04, the 2010 Boston College-Ireland Visiting Fellow, and a 2012-13 Humanities Institute Fellow at UConn. Her book, “Tinkers”: Synge and the Cultural History of the Irish Traveller, for which she received UConn’s CLAS Research Excellence in the Humanities Award in 2009, was published that year by Oxford University Press. She has published numerous articles and chapters on Synge, Stoker, and Edna O’Brien, and has articles forthcoming on Bryan MacMahon and on McDonagh and punk music. She also writes creatively, and was nominated for a Hennessy Irish Writing award in 2008. Her second book project is on the Scots-Irish and Irish and American literature, from which she will draw for her Columbia Irish Seminar presentation.
Please RSVP to Annie Holt, rapporteur, by Tuesday, April 29, if you would like to attend dinner, which is $25 per person, payable only by check (made out to Columbia University, with “dinner sem 535” in the memo line). No reservation necessary to attend the talk, which is free of charge.
The full schedule of Irish Seminars at Columbia University is available here.