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Georgina Nugent
@georginanugent.bsky.social
Lecturer in Modernism, University College Cork
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CFP: James Joyce in Relation: Gender, Labour, Legacy, a special issue of Feminist Modernist Studies, guest edited by Ronan Crowley & myself. Please take a look at the CFP and send your proposals our way. Proposals from non-Joyceans are ESPECIALLY welcome:

think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
James Joyce in relation: Gender, labour, legacy
think.taylorandfrancis.com
It was the honour of my academic career to co-nominate and co-deliver (with the amazing Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh) the citation for Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's Honorary Doctorate from @ucc.ie. ❤️

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Aosdána member and Saoi Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin awarded Honorary Doctorate of Literature by UCC - Aosdána
The trailblazing poet, scholar, editor, Saoi of Aosdána and former Ireland Professor of Poetry, Professor Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin was honoured the Honorary Doctorate by University College Cork (UCC) fo...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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29th November 2025 is scheduled for the online Samuel Beckett seminar, “Decoding Colding in Beckett.”

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Hello Beckettians and Modernists! You can now access registration link, full programme of the seminar, and abstracts and bio on the website of The Samuel Beckett Society: samuelbeckettsociety.org
The Samuel Beckett Society
samuelbeckettsociety.org
November 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Two months to the deadline for abstracts for ‘James Joyce in Relation: Gender, Labour, Legacy’. We invite feminist, queer, intersectional & transnational work that rethinks Joyce’s relations with his women contemporaries & interrogates reception, networks & the gendered infrastructures of modernism.
CFP: James Joyce in Relation: Gender, Labour, Legacy, a special issue of Feminist Modernist Studies, guest edited by Ronan Crowley & myself. Please take a look at the CFP and send your proposals our way. Proposals from non-Joyceans are ESPECIALLY welcome:

think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
James Joyce in relation: Gender, labour, legacy
think.taylorandfrancis.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Last month I took part in a plenary session on Early Career Research & Career Building with James Little & Ondřej Pilný at the International Postgraduates Conference in Irish Studies, CU Prague. I start talking about my experiences as an ECR at the 1hr 13 minute mark.

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Panel Session for Early Career Researchers in Irish Studies
YouTube video by Centre for Irish Studies Prague
youtu.be
October 6, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Yesterday I was in Regensburg for the opening of Samuel Beckett: The German Room. It was mad cool to organise the academic programme for this exhibition, and there's more to come in January :)

@ubregensburg.bsky.social @ucc.ie

www.uni-regensburg.de/bibliothek/v...
September 23, 2025 at 5:38 AM
I was precarious for a long time & in three different countries. I have a lot to say on the topic, so it's nice to start saying some of this tomorrow at the International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies, Centre for Irish Studies, CU Prague.
irishpostgradprague.ff.cuni.cz/programme/ke...
Keynote Event: ECR & Career Building Panel – The International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies
irishpostgradprague.ff.cuni.cz
September 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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The poet Ellen Dillon read at O’Bhéal go Béal tonight to a packed house. What an artist. Master of craft and scholar of poetry. Proof that good writing takes time and effort. Excited for her next book. Properly achieved poetry tonight. No short cuts.
September 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Feel extremely lucky to work with the class act, poetic genius, and all round legend that is @lizquirke.bsky.social. Read her new essay in @stingingfly.bsky.social, it's amazing!!

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The fear of stepping into focus – The Stinging Fly
stingingfly.org
September 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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‘I don’t believe in the unspeakable or untranslatable. That’s imperial logic and privilege – empire bombs incessantly, and then says the deaths are unspeakable? No, we need to speak about every bomb, every destroyed body, every hour that these bombs landed’–Don Mee Choi, Chicago Review of Books 68.1
July 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
"Leeanne Quinn. Read her"

❤️❤️❤️
I am happy to be included in the Versopolis listing of poets from Ireland, but more than anything, I am profoundly grateful to @maryodonnell.bsky.social for writing such a generous and incisive short essay on my work. Thank you so much Mary 🙏🍃

www.versopolis.com/poet/580/lee...
Leeanne Quinn | Versopolis Poetry
Versopolis Review is a pan-European cultural and humanities magazine.
www.versopolis.com
July 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Born in 1900 "She was forty-four when she gained the right to vote. In 1961, when she married Beckett...French matrimonial law still forbade married women from looking after their own interests: they could not open a bank account or exercise a profession without their husbands’ permission" 🤯
Congratulations to Emilie Morin on the publication of her biography of Suzanne Beckett, offering the first full portrait of this elusive figure. It is free to download for the next two weeks tinyurl.com/54n3ztmv
Suzanne Dumesnil, Suzanne Beckett
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1900-1945 - Suzanne Dumesnil, Suzanne Beckett
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July 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Read this book and be mad as hell!! But read it! There is something so haunted about trying to catch a glimpse of her through the veil of paraphrase the copywrite situation has thrown over her work.
Anyone with even a passing interest in Beckett needs to read Emilie Morin's biography of Suzanne Dumesnil: it's free to download for the next two weeks. This is feminist restorative history in action: read this book!!!
Congratulations to Emilie Morin on the publication of her biography of Suzanne Beckett, offering the first full portrait of this elusive figure. It is free to download for the next two weeks tinyurl.com/54n3ztmv
July 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Downloaded and reading
Anyone with even a passing interest in Beckett needs to read Emilie Morin's biography of Suzanne Dumesnil: it's free to download for the next two weeks. This is feminist restorative history in action: read this book!!!
Congratulations to Emilie Morin on the publication of her biography of Suzanne Beckett, offering the first full portrait of this elusive figure. It is free to download for the next two weeks tinyurl.com/54n3ztmv
July 12, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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I want to briefly talk about one thing people don't really talk about too much with precarity and one thing that most senior staff gloss over, offering a platitude instead of engaging with what is fundamentally wrong with the precarity situation in the UK. 1/
June 20, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Anyone with even a passing interest in Beckett needs to read Emilie Morin's biography of Suzanne Dumesnil: it's free to download for the next two weeks. This is feminist restorative history in action: read this book!!!
Congratulations to Emilie Morin on the publication of her biography of Suzanne Beckett, offering the first full portrait of this elusive figure. It is free to download for the next two weeks tinyurl.com/54n3ztmv
Suzanne Dumesnil, Suzanne Beckett
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1900-1945 - Suzanne Dumesnil, Suzanne Beckett
tinyurl.com
July 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
CFP: James Joyce in Relation: Gender, Labour, Legacy, a special issue of Feminist Modernist Studies, guest edited by Ronan Crowley & myself. Please take a look at the CFP and send your proposals our way. Proposals from non-Joyceans are ESPECIALLY welcome:

think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
James Joyce in relation: Gender, labour, legacy
think.taylorandfrancis.com
June 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Congratulations to Sasha Dugale (sashadugdale.bsky.social), who has been named the winner of the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2025 with her collection The Strongbox!

Well done Sasha!! 🎉
Read the news here: www.carcanet.co.uk/sasha-dugdal...
June 18, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Thank you to Professor Lauren Arrington for launching my book at the Frankfurt Modernist conference organised so wonderfully by @georginanugent.bsky.social and Ronan Crowley and hosted by the Irish Consulate, Frankfurt. I was honoured to be in the company of the amazing Zackary Leader.
June 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Today, in Cork City Library!
Hello! On Saturday 17 May 4pm I will be chatting to Zachary Leader about his new book, Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and its Maker" at Cork City Library. This is a free event, do come ☀️ @ucc.ie @harvardpress.bsky.social
May 17, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Very happy to share the speaker list for "Modernist Life Righting: Corrective Self-Portraiture in the 20th and 21st Century", a two day conference I've co-organized with Ronan Crowley. Taking place later this month at @goetheuni.bsky.social. Look at this amazing lineup of speakers!!
May 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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A sorrowful reflection on the ways in which a place can hold a ‘magnetic field of memory’, Don Mee Choi explores South Korea’s violent recent history in a poetry of grief that is both personal and collective

Mirror Nation is out now in the UK and Europe 💫
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May 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Every May Bank Holiday since 2018 I think of the tiny Together for Yes stall at the mart in Kilmallock, where 5 of us faced off the pink-jacket crew for over 5 hours. Someday I'll be able to write about it properly but I made a start here

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May 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Looking forward to welcoming to Leanne Quinn and John McAuliffe to our Poetry Festival this year. For all details on the festival go to www.poetryfest.ie
#poetryfest #corkevents
May 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM