Reasons to Remain
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Early in my first semester as W. B. Yeats Fellow in Irish Literature at the University of Notre Dame I was invited to audit the graduate seminar Returns of the Aesthetic, taught jointly by my mentor Dr Joseph Rosenberg and Dr Yasmin Solomonescu. A generous interpretation of “auditing” transpired: rather than sitting shtum in the…
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This site needs some updates. It will get them. R2R started, long ago, as a sort-of-travel-blog, and there is some travelling coming up real soon. I’ll also probably get rid of / archive a lot of the older posts on here, so, er, get them while they’re cold. In the meantime, here are a couple…
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Reading contemporary Irish literature cover to cover I have a …a piece? A few paragraphs. A segment! In this new compilarticle* from the truly excellent folks at Contemporary Irish Literature. It’s a nice piece and well worth a read (although I’ll have to come back to Taylor Allgeier-Follett’s bit on A Ghost in the Throat because…
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I’ve got a new piece, adapted from the ‘coda’ that concluded my PhD, published in Alluvium which is a journal I’ve long admired. It’s a very wee academic article so if you’d like to see the sort of thing I spent, oh, several years of my life furrowing my brow about, give it a look.…