Here's something that me and Evan Brier have been working on for ages: a special issue on editors in Post45 US literature. Delighted to see it published!
When you reach the top and defeat the last academic boss, they take you into a secret room and finally explain the difference between Aims and Objectives
Toddler has developed the habit of saying "now!" to himself in that reassuring Irish way whenever he completes a little task. He definitely got it from me
After a couple of great years in
@EnglishUCC
(given the mental circumstances, obviously), I'm excited to be teaching at
@SEIC_UL
at the University of Limerick this year. Looking forward to meeting new colleagues & students👨🏫
The School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin is pleased to announce a doctoral scholarship to work as part of a funded project.
To find out more about this scholarship, please visit our website.
I enjoyed interviewing Lisa McInerney for the 25th anniversary of the
@stingingfly
! She spoke about her first year as editor, the magazine's place in Irish literature, and how to support emerging writers
Very happy to be joining
@EnglishUCC
as a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow for the next two years! I'll be researching US magazine fiction & the history of the New American Review (1969-1977, later American Review), edited by Ted Solotaroff. Excited to start on this.
Very happy to finally get my contributor copy of this beautiful collection! (and thanks to editor extraordinaire
@gandercat
for letting me write about DeLillo and editing as a literary art)
Things in Europe get more surreal by the day. If Varadkar (a centre-right politician basically despised by much of the left here) went on the streets in Germany to express these views, there's a non-negligible chance he'd be locked up
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said that what is happening in Gaza is not just self-defence on the part of Israel, but it "resembles something more approaching revenge" | Read more:
The Art of Editing is out today! You can order it here. Or, if there's a university library in your life, feel free to let them know about this amazing opportunity:
We are delighted to be celebrating the fantastic scholars of NUI - including this lovely bunch from
@UCC
- at our virtual awards ceremony at 2pm on Mon, 14 Dec. Please join us:
#NUIAwards20
A peep at the cover of this year's edition of The Ogham Stone (
@TheOghamStone
), created by English and Creative Writing MA students at
@EnglishAtUL
; featuring new writers (and some very established guests👀) from Limerick and beyond! Cover design by Anna Loi 💫
Please include the following documents with your application:
-Cover letter
-Curriculum Vitae
-20 page statement, in verse, outlining your teaching philosophy, personal philosophy & footballing philosophy
-Hemingway's lost manuscript of 1922
-A solution to Brexit
"The day wants the night," announced the 5-yr-old earlier. He repeated himself, then marched off without explanation. Later, when pressed, he denied ever having uttered the phrase
Just returned home to my opulent coastal villa only to chance upon my weird friend - of whom I still have no previous memory? - clad in my finest underwear whilst impersonating my every gesture with chilling precision. It's probably grand
Thrilled to announce my new position as Sensitivity Reader for the Richard Scarry books! My first job will be to remove all the scenes in which cannibalistic piggies prepare to feast gleefully upon the flesh of their butchered brethren
Friday evening, what better way to enjoy it than to log on to the website with endless different pictures of 20-year-olds and also the same video of a boat slowly turning around in circles
Spoke to a lovely group of students from Cergy, Paris earlier about Irish publishing. They presented me with their projects, including a whole magazine about Ireland that they wrote and produced
Thinking of starting a podcast where me and my friends begin each episode with ten minutes of completely intolerable banter entirely unrelated to the subject of that episode. Feels like there's a gap in the market
This was very nice - my favourite American Studies legend Ron Callan launching my book in my favourite coffee-guzzling room
@BooksUpstairs
. Huge thanks to everyone involved. 🙏
"Consistent citation from the primary text is lowkey goated when persuasive argumentation is the vibe" I type desperately into the comment box of a student essay, eyes watering
Made the mistake of mentioning to my theory class that Roland Barthes died after being hit by an ice cream van, leading to a) general hilarity and distraction and b) a necessary retraction a few minutes later when I suddenly remembered it was actually a laundry truck
Showed my son his first world cup final yesterday. Less than a week old and he already has a sophisticated understanding of the modern game. An exceptional boy
My mother tells the story of a neighbour who, when this was first broadcast, took to the bed for 30 hours with several bottles of Guinness and a bedpan so he could listen to the whole thing through without interruption
If you like ordering your books two months in advance, this one's for you! You can pre-order The Art of Editing (or just read its nice blurbs) over here:
CFP: Irish Association for American Studies (
@theIAAS
) Annual Conference 2023
Theme: "In/Security"
28-29 April, 2023
University of Limerick (
@UL
), hybrid
We're excited to be hosting. Send us your proposals by 31st January! More details at:
I had a lot of fun teaching in
@UCD_English
this year. The highlight might have been getting to co-teach a fantastic group of MA students on Contemporary US Genre Fiction with the excellent
@DaraD22Gothic
🙌
Virtual Symposium: TRANSATLANTIC PUBLISHING IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Thursday 15th June
Full details here:
(Free!) Teams registration here:
A collaboration between
@EnglishAtUL
and
@stirpublishing
, supported by
@YERUN_EU
Tomorrow, on the final day of
#DouglassWeek
, I'll be hosting this panel on 'Publishing and Activism' featuring people behind some of the most interesting Irish publishing projects of recent years. Join us via the DW YouTube channel for free at 6pm GMT:
"School gets boringer and boringer and boringer and boringer. And when it's really boring: then you're a adult!"
A deep systemic insight from the young lad on his first day
The attention to detail in Normal People is really impressive, except for the fanciful suggestion that rooms in the trinity arts block actually have windows
My best understanding of the distinction: let's say my Aim was "to develop a witty and beloved microblogging persona," then my Objective might be "to write a banging tweet that garners acknowledgement and praise from multiple power users, thus maximising project Impact" (?)
This by
@KevPow3
is as good as you might have heard - the most satisfying novel I've read in a long time. Hits the easy targets (golf bros, the Dublin arts scene) in fine style, all while drifting with deceptive ease into darker and more ambitious territory. 💯
Might log off for a few days, finding it quite difficult to process extremely disturbing world-historical events through a forest of bad takes and random nonsense and everyone's intricate little packages of resentments
Gill's bookshop on O'Connell St in the 1930s, featuring crucifix & statues at the back (the publisher/bookseller also had its own brasswork factory & carpentry shop to produce church furnishings)
Did you accidentally write extensively on a whiteboard with permanent marker? Are you now standing in an empty classroom, scrubbing painstakingly at the tragicomic remnants of your own stupidity?
No?
Friend, you might be having a better friday afternoon than me
It is 2024. The vaccine is still several months away. A man behind the garden centre shears your hair twice yearly in exchange for sourdough and a choc ice. An enforcement robot prowls the perimeter of Grogans, emitting nauseating bass frequencies whenever you step too close
Interesting to ponder the fact that in the days we've been exchanging Irish academic letters, Israel has been busy
-obliterating every university in Gaza
-keeping Irish citizens in Gaza, apparently in return for our govt's mild criticism
-bombing a children's cancer ward