Posted by on 2022-09-15

*NEW DATE*: Join us on Friday 2nd December, 2pm for this online seminar!

The first BACLS Online Seminar of 2022-23 promises to be a fascinating one: the joint winners of the 2022 BACLS Monograph Prize – Caroline Magennis (Salford) and Ian Hickey (Mary Immaculate College) – will talk about their monographs and participate in a discussion with BACLS members on issues arising from their research. Caroline Magennis’s book, Northern Irish Writing after the Troubles: Intimacies, Affects, Pleasures (Bloomsbury), explores the ways in which the “post”-conflict period has led writers to a renewed engagement with intimacy, the body and pleasure. It examines work by a range of exciting contemporary writers, including Lucy Caldwell, Jan Carson, Bernie McGill and David Park. Ian Hickey’s book, Haunted Heaney: Spectres and the Poetry (Routledge), explores Seamus Heaney’s poetry through the lens of hauntology, illuminating the many significances of ghosts as, among other things, literary influences and legacies of British colonialism.

Participants can sign up for the seminar via Eventbrite.

Please note: if you had a ticket for the October date, your ticket will now be valid for the new date, no need to sign up again.

We are looking forward to seeing you there!