CFP: Edna O'Brien (Ireland) (12/17/04; 4/23/05)

Call for Papers

EDNA O'BRIEN: A REAPPRAISAL

23 April 2005

National University of Ireland, Galway
Department of English, Women's Studies Centre and Centre for Irish
Studies

Proposals are invited for a one-day conference which aims to elicit new
readings of Edna O’Brien’s work. In the wake of existing criticism which

has tended to regard O’Brien primarily in the light of feminist, Irish
nationalist and religious discourses, we seek papers that reconsider
Edna O'Brien's place in the canon, her work's participation in literary
traditions, its interactions with contemporary fiction, its response to
and presence in the work of other writers.

Possible topics might include (but are not limited to):

· Edna O’Brien’s reception in Ireland/Europe/ the USA
· Edna O'Brien as playwright/ screenwriter/memoirist/short story
writer/’faction’ writer
· The English Edna O’Brien
· O’Brien as ‘literary’ or ‘popular’ fiction writer.
· O'Brien and the canon
· Comparative studies of O'Brien and other writers
· O'Brien as literary influence
· O’Brien and social change
· Post-colonial O’Brien
· O’Brien in translation/in an international context

Plenary speakers
· Professor Patricia Coughlan, Department of English, University College

Cork.
· Dr Rebecca Pelan, Director of the Centre for Women’s Studies, NUI
Galway.

 Selected proceedings will be considered for publication.

A new collection of essays, Wild Colonial Girl: Essays on Edna O’Brien,
edited by Maureen O’Connor and Lisa Colletta (University of Wisconsin
Press) will be launched at the conference.

Please send 500-word proposals for 20-minute papers to Dr Sinéad Mooney
(sinead.mooney_at_nuigalway.ie), Dr. Kathryn Laing (kslaing_at_indigo.ie ) and

Dr Maureen O’Connor (maureen.oconnor_at_nuigalway.ie), Department of
English, NUI Galway, by Friday 17th December 2004.

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Dr Sinead Mooney
Department of English
National University of Ireland, Galway
NUIG direct line: +353 (091) 512125
NUIG ext. 2566
NUIG fax: +353 (091) 524102
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