Professor Ruben Moi at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø conducts research into English and Irish literature and organises the research group Just Literature (JUL). His most recent books are The Language of Paul Muldoon’s Poetry (2020) and The Crossings of Art in Ireland (2014). He has also published widely in English and Norwegian on borders and contemporary culture, and on the imaginative arts of writers such as Seamus Heaney, Ciaran Carson, Samuel Beckett, Martin MacDonagh and Irvine Welsh. He is the current President of the Norwegian Society for English Studies and holds positions as treasurer of the Nordic Irish Studies Network and member of the Norwegian Academic Council for English. He acted as chairman of Ordkalotten – Tromsø’s International Literature Festival for many years.
Ruben will present in Panel 6: Literature, Justice, and Northern Ireland, and he will chair the Keynote Lecture on Thursday as well as the Poetry Reading on Friday.