Irish Literature Seminar Series

Tuesday 28 APRIL 2026 Polo Tucci, Aula Edith Bruck – Ex G 9:00-14:00

In this two-part series, scholars and translators of Irish literature illuminate a selection of texts ranging from Irish gothic to contemporary drama and James Joyce. The first seminar entitled "Female Vampires, Ghosts, and Neanderthals in 19th- and 21st-Century Irish Literature” investigates modes of female gothic in seminal nineteenth-century texts such as Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla (1872) and ghost stories by Clotilde Graves and Katharine Tynan. This seminar also explores the female epic of Marina Carr’s play iGirl (2021) from the perspective of its Italian translator. The second seminar, “Joyce in Motion: Reading and Translation as Dialogue”, delves into the rewarding complexities of reading and translating Joyce with the participation of international experts and translators of Joyce across the Italian and Macedonian languages.

PROGRAMME

Seminar 1 – Tuesday 28 April 2026

Polo Tucci, Aula Edith Bruck – Ex G (9:00-14:00)

Female Vampires, Ghosts, and Neanderthals in 19th- and 21st-Century Irish Literature

9:00-9:15 Opening remarks

Rector John McCourt (University of Macerata)

Giulia Bruna (University of Macerata)

9:15-11:00 Valentina Rapetti (University of Macerata), “From the Midlands Plays to iGirl: Translating Marina Carr into Italian”

11:15-12:15 Marija Girevska (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje and UniMC Visiting Professor 2025-26), “Haunting Desire: Female Vampirism and the Uncanny in Carmilla”

12:30-13:30 Federica Palazzi (University of Macerata), “Who is the Ghost? Female Apparitions and Male Indifference in the Short Stories of Clotilde Graves and Katharine Tynan”

13:30-14:00 Q&A and concluding remarks