Irish Literature Seminar Series

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.

Seminar 2 – Friday 22 May 2026

Polo Tucci, Aula Confucio – Ex L (9:30-13:00)

Joyce in Motion: Reading and Translation as Dialogue

Speakers:

o John McCourt (University of Macerata)

o Marija Girevska (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje and UniMC Visiting Professor 2025-26)

o Enrico Terrinoni (Università per Stranieri di Perugia)