Seatangled: A Conversation on Irish Literature, Modernism, and the Sea
Global Irish Studies, in association with the Department of English and the Georgetown Humanities Initiative, invites you to
Seatangled: A Conversation on Irish Literature, Modernism, and the Sea
Tuesday, October 26th, 3pm to 4pm ET (online–registration required). All are welcome.
Drawing on recent developments in the study of literature from Ireland to the Indian Ocean, this conversation will consider the implications for Irish literature of reading from the standpoint of the sea, the ocean, and the coast. It will feature experts in Irish literature, modernism, and oceanic studies, and is inspired by the recent publication of Nicholas Allen’s Ireland, Literature, and the Coast: Seatangled (Oxford University Press, 2020)
Featuring:
Nicholas Allen, Endowed Professor in the Humanities at the University of Georgia, and Director of the Humanities Center
Lucy Collins, Associate Professor of Modern Poetry at University College Dublin and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies
Harris Feinsod, Associate Professor of English at Northwestern University
Nicole Rizzuto, Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University
The conversation will be moderated by Cóilín Parsons, Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University
About Nicholas Allen’s book:
Allen’s book reads Irish literature and art in the context of the island’s coastal and maritime cultures, beginning with the late imperial experiences of Jack and William Butler Yeats and ending with the contemporary work of Anne Enright and Sinead Morrissey. It includes chapters on key historical texts such as Erskine Childers’s The Riddle of the Sands, and on contemporary writers including Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Kevin Barry. Situated within contemporary conversations about the blue and the environmental humanities, this book builds on the upsurge of interest in seas and coasts in literary studies. In doing so, it creates a literary and visual narrative of Irish coastal cultures across a seaboard that extends to a planetary configuration of imagined islands.