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Paige Reynolds<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Renowned scholar Paige Reynolds publishes on the subjects of modernism, drama and performance, and modern and contemporary Irish literature. She is author of Modernism in Irish Women\u2019s Contemporary Writing: The Stubborn Mode<\/em> (Oxford UP, 2023) and Modernism, Drama, and the Audience for Irish Spectacle<\/em> (Cambridge UP, 2007). <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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She also is editor of Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture<\/em> (Anthem Press, 2016), The New Irish Studies <\/em>(Cambridge UP, 2020), and (with Eric Falci) Irish Literature in Transition<\/em>, Volume 6, 1980-2020 (Cambridge UP, 2020).
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Claire Connolly<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Professor of Modern English at University College Cork, Ireland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Her Cultural History of the Irish Novel, 1790-1829<\/em> (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) won the Donald J. Murphy Prize, awarded by the American Conference for Irish Studies. She has been visiting Associate Professor of Irish Studies at Boston College, O\u2019Brien Professor at Concordia University in Montreal, Parnell Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge and Burns Professor at Boston College.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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With Marjorie Howes (Boston College), she was General Editor of Irish Literature in Transition, 1700-2020<\/em> (Cambridge University Press, 2020); as well as editor for Volume 2 of the series, Irish Literature in Transition, 1780-1830<\/em>. Her new book on Irish Romanticism is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
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Laura P.Z. Izarra<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Full Professor of Literatures in English at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She received her MA, PhD and Post-Doctoral degrees from said university. She was former Vice-President and Associate Director at USP International Cooperation Office (2015-2021), Coordinator of the W.B.Yeats Chair of Irish Studies (since 2009) and co-founder and former president of Irish Studies Associations \u2013 SILAS (2003\/ 2006-2009); ABEI (1988\/ 2009-2018). She is co-founder of the Alliance of Chairs of Irish Studies in Latin America and IASIL vice-chairperson for Latin America and the Caribbean (former \u201cOther Countries”). <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Author of Mirrors and Holographic Labyrinths. The Process of an Aesthetic Synthesis in the Novels of John Banville<\/em> (NY, Oxford: International Scholars Publications, 1999), Narrativas de la di\u00e1spora irlandesa bajo la Cruz del Sur (Buenos Aires: Corregidor, 2010-11) y O Trauma Cultural: Resson\u00e2ncias liter\u00e1rias irlandesas<\/em> (SP: Editora FFLCH, 2020) among numerous chapters and articles on Irish contemporary literature, Irish in South America, (post\/de)coloniality, cultural trauma, memory and diaspora studies.

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James Chandler<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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William K. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of English and Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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James Chandler is William K. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of English and Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. His publications include\u00a0Wordsworth\u2019s Second Nature<\/em>\u00a0(Chicago, 1984), England in 1819\u00a0<\/em>(Chicago, 1998),\u00a0An Archaeology of Sympathy\u00a0<\/em>(Chicago, 2013), and\u00a0Doing Criticism: Across Literary and Screen Arts\u00a0<\/em>(Wiley-Blackwell, 2022).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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He is the editor\u00a0of\u00a0The New Cambridge History of English Romantic Literature\u00a0<\/em>(2009),\u00a0Romantic Metropolis<\/em>\u00a0(with Kevin Gilmartin, 2001), and\u00a0The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry<\/em> (with Maureen McLane (2008). His\u00a0current book project is\u00a0Figures in a Field:\u00a0\u00a0Wordsworth and Edgeworth.\u00a0<\/em>Since 1989 he has served as General Editor of Cambridge Studies in Romanticism.\u00a0<\/em>He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Royal Irish Academy.

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Jane Ohlmeyer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Modern History (1762) at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, MRIA, FBA, FTCD, FRHistS was a driving force behind the 1641 Depositions Project and the development of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute. She chaired the Irish Research Council (2015-21). In 2023 received an Advanced ERC for VOICES, a project on the lived experiences of women in early modern Ireland. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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She is the author or editor of numerous articles and 11 books. Her latest Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism and the Early Modern World<\/em> (Oxford, 2023) is based on the 2021 Ford Lectures in Oxford. In 2023 she was awarded the Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal in the Humanities.
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Briona Nic Dhiarmada<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Thomas J. & Kathleen M. O’Donnell Professor of Irish Studies Emeritus and Concurrent Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame, United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A writer, academic and filmmaker, Nic Dhiarmada was educated in Trinity College, Dublin and UCD and is a native of Wexford. She lectured at UCD before working in television for RT\u00c9 and TG4 before returning to academia at UL in 2006. She has been a Distinguished Visiting International Scholar at the University of Missouri and held a Senior Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame before joining the fulltime faculty as a tenured endowed professor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She has written numerous screenplays and has produced, written and directed award winning documentaries including the multi-award winning documentary series 1916 narrated by Liam Neeson and screened worldwide. Her book 1916- The Irish Rebellion<\/em> won the Foreward Prize for History. She is the writer and producer of the 4-part series and documentary feature film entitled From that Small Island- The Story of the Irish<\/em> (2025) narrated by Colin Farrell.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Nuala Finnegan<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dean of Undergraduate and Postgraduate Studies and Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at University College Cork, Ireland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Director of the Centre for Mexican Studies (1999-2023), she has published widely in the areas of contemporary Mexican literary and visual cultural studies with a particular focus on gender. Much of her work has focused on cultural responses to violence and includes a monograph on femicide in Ciudad Juarez (Cultural Representations of Feminicidio on the U.S.-Mexico Border<\/em>) with Routledge, articles, book chapters, exhibitions, community engagement and student\/staff cultural activism. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Involved in exploring the generative interconnections between Ireland and Latin America, she recently led a research team in UCC and Ulster University on a project called Critical Epistemologies Across Borders, funded by the North-South Research Programme (NSRP) which is integrating Latin American art practice and feminist methodologies to forge conversations about women, identity and new constitutional futures on the island of Ireland. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Stay tuned for the complete list of keynote speakers and detailed session information. For updates, contact us at turnsofthecenturies@gmail.com<\/strong>.<\/a><\/h2>\n

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