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\u2013 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS \u2013<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Fiona Farr<\/strong><\/p>\n

Christopher Morash<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lorna Hutson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrew Newby<\/strong><\/p>\n

Invited Poet<\/em>: Desmond Egan<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Fiona Farr<\/strong> is Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESOL in the School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of Limerick, Ireland, where she is Director of the Centre for Applied Language Studies. Her key areas of expertise are teacher education, reflective practice, continuous professional development, applied corpus linguistics, and technology-enhanced language learning. She has published widely in high impact journals in her field and is author of\u00a0Teaching Practice Feedback: an investigation of spoken and written modes<\/em>\u00a0(2011, Routledge) ,\u00a0Practice in TESOL<\/em>\u00a0(2015, Edinburgh University Press),\u00a0Social Interaction in Language Teacher Education<\/em>\u00a0(2019, Edinburgh University Press, with Farrell and Riordan), and\u00a0The Reflective Cycle of the Teaching Practicum<\/em>\u00a0(2023, Equinox, with Farrell) and contributed as an author to Knight, D. et al. (2024). Corpus Linguistics for Virtual Workplace Discourse, <\/em>New York and London, Routledge. She is co-editor (with Br\u00f3na Murphy) of the\u00a0EUP Textbooks in TESOL Series<\/em>, and is Associate Editor of the Journal\u00a0Second Language Teacher Education<\/em>. She is also\u00a0co-editor (with Liam Murray) of the\u00a0Routledge Handbook of Language Learning and Technology<\/em>\u00a0(2016, 2nd edition 2026). She has been Adjunct Professor at the Inland Norway University, Hamar, (2022-2024) and\u00a0Visiting Research Scholar at Lancaster University and Queen\u2019s University, Belfast. She has also led and taken part in a number of national in international projects\u00a0including Digilanguages\u00a0(2016-2017), Shout4HE (2018-2021), and Interactional Variation Online (2021-2024) (https:\/\/ivohub.com\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Christopher Morash<\/strong> is Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing at Trinity College, Dublin. With research interests ranging widely across the field of Irish literary and cultural studies., he has published extensively on Irish theatre, including a standard history, as well as a theorical work on theatre space and is also the editor of the Cambridge History of the Irish Novel<\/em> (forthcoming early in 2026). Pursuing simultaneous interests in technology and culture, he has published on the transatlantic telegraph, not to mention the only synoptic history of Irish media to range from the 16th century to the 21st century. Perhaps best known for his work on literary Dublin arising out of his book, Dublin: A Writer\u2019s City<\/em> (2023), and the many publications and addresses which have come in its wake, he has nevertheless sustained a long-established interest in Yeats (resulting most recently in monograph on his theatre and theatre theory), as well as a concern for Irish Famine writing (which goes back to the 1990s). In the forefront of his current activities, however, is a collaborative project on \u2018Attention\u2019, which he frames for the purposes of the present conference as follows:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe publication of John Guillory\u2019s On Close Reading<\/em> earlier this year signals a renewed interest in the practice of close reading in literary studies, often attributed to what is perceived as a growing culture of distraction, even a \u2018distraction economy.\u2019\u00a0 Drawing in part on collaborative work with two colleagues (Ronan McDonald of Melbourne, and Shane O\u2019Mara, Professor of Experimental Brain Research in TCD), this talk takes the form of four short lectures, tracing the prehistory of the current sense of crisis, and its legacy in Irish writing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lorna Hutson<\/strong> is the Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford. She has taught at London, Hull, Berkeley and St Andrews. Her books include Thomas Nashe in Context <\/em>(1989), The Usurer\u2019s Daughter <\/em>(1994), The Invention of Suspicion <\/em>(2007), Circumstantial Shakespeare <\/em>(2015) and England\u2019s Insular Imagining <\/em>(2023). She is editor of The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature 1500-1700<\/em> (2018) and co-editor, with Victoria Kahn, of Rhetoric and Law in Early Modern Europe <\/em>(2001) and has edited Ben Jonson\u2019s Discoveries<\/em> (2012). She is a Fellow of the British Academy, has held Guggenheim and Leverhulme Fellowships and has won Bainton and Saltire Prizes for research.<\/p>\n

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Andrew G. Newby<\/strong> is Senior Lecturer in Transnational and Comparative History at the University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4, Finland. Specialized in the history and society of Europe during the \u201cLong Nineteenth Century\u201d (especially Irish history in comparative or transnational perspective), he holds concurrent Docentships in European Area and Cultural Studies (University of Helsinki, 2008) and Transnational and Comparative History (Tampere University, 2021). Between 2012 to 2017 Andrew was the Principal Investigator of the Academy of Finland project, \u201c\u2018The Terrible Visitation\u2019: Famine in Finland and Ireland, c. 1845-1868\u201d, and has held research positions at the Institutes of Advanced Study in Helsinki, Aarhus, and Tampere, as well as lectureships in the universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Books include Ireland, Radicalism and the Scottish Highlands<\/em> (EUP, 2007); Michael Davitt: New Perspectives<\/em> (edited with Fintan Lane, 2009); \u00c9ire na R\u00faise: An Fhionlainn agus \u00c9ire ar th\u00f3ir na Saoirse<\/em> (Coisc\u00e9im, 2016); Finland\u2019s Great Famine, 1856-1868<\/em> (2023); and An Fraoch Tr\u00ed Thine! Miche\u00e1l Mac Daibh\u00e9id, Conradh na tal\u00fan agus Garbhch\u00edocha na hAlban 1870-1887<\/em> (forthcoming, 2025).<\/p>\n

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Desmond Egan<\/strong> has published many Collections of Poetry (including, most recently, Laptop<\/em> in 2024), 3 of Prose Essays, and 2 Translations from the Greek of plays by Sophocles and Euripides. 25 Collections of his work have been published in translation, across Europe and world-wide. Various Awards include The Irish Books and Media (IBAM) 2017 Award for Literature; The National Poetry Foundation of USA Award; and others. Hon. President, The Classical Society of Ireland 2004; Hon. Doctorate in Literature from Washburn University 1996. DVD Documentary published in USA and broadcast on PBS Television. Artistic Director, The G. M. Hopkins Annual Festival in Newbridge College.<\/p>\n

Books by Desmond Egan<\/strong> include: Epic<\/em>, \u2018An important Collection\u2019 (Thomas Kinsella); A Song for My Father<\/em>, \u2018Moving poems\u2019 (Samuel Beckett); Elegies<\/em>, \u2018The work of a major poet\u2019 (Brian Arkins); Hopeful Hopkins: Essays, \u2018A new phase in Hopkins studies … an admirable and careful reading\u2019 (Alex Assaly); Rogha\/Choice, translations by Michael Hartnett<\/em>, \u2018A book to be grateful for\u2019 (Gabriel Fitzmaurice); Complete Poems<\/em>, \u2018Makes me think we have moved beyond even the achievement of Seamus Heaney\u2019 (Hugh Kenner); Seeing Double<\/em>, \u2018In Egan almost every poem has a metaphysical aspect. He is, for me, the most remarkable poet writing in English\u2019 (Birgit Bramsb\u00e4ck); Philoctetes: A translation of Sophocles\u2019 play<\/em>, \u2018Rare fidelity to the source language in an emphatic modern register \u2013 a remarkable achievement\u2019 (Brian Arkin).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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