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Georgina Nugent
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Lecturer in Modernism, University College Cork
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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 :)

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A close up of a placard from Samuel Beckett: The German Room which reads: The exhibition, organised in cooperation with the Tophoven Archive (Straelen) and the Beckett Archive (Reading), is accompanied by an academic programme organised by Dr Georgina Nugent (University College Cork) and a cultural programme. A photograph of a portion of the exhibition Samuel Beckett: The German Room. The room is predominantly grey, with boxes of text in white. A close up of a placard for Samuel Beckett: The German Room, an exhibition at the University of Regensburg.
September 23, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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Day Two of "Modernist Life Righting". With Kitty Cannell, Gertrude Stein, contemporary theater, Samuel Beckett, and mega biographers Leeann Lane, Zachary Leader & Emilie Morin!
FRIDAY 23 May | IG Farbenhaus Eisenhower Room [Building 1 on the campus map] 09.30–11.00 PANEL 4 Chair: Emilie Morin (University of York) Megan Girdwood (University of Edinburgh): Kitty Cannell among the Modernists Lianna Mark (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): Theatres of Life-Righting Georgina Nugent (University College Cork): Corrective Life Righting in Modernism and Beyond 11.00–11.30 * coffee break * 11.30–13.00 PANEL 5 Chair: Julie Bates (Trinity College Dublin) Feargal Whelan (Trinity College Dublin): Harping: (Re)-Visiting Irish and Childhood Landscapes in Beckett’s Company Sam Thompson (Queen’s University Belfast): ‘We were Pylades and Orestes, flattened down to something very genteel’: Fictionalising a Friendship with Samuel Beckett Dúnlaith Bird (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord): Playing Games: Suzanne Dumesnil and Musique Jeux (1935) 13.00–15.00 * lunch at Café Sturm & Drang * 15.00–16.30 PANEL 6 Chairs: Georgina Nugent (University College Cork) Leeann Lane (Dublin City University): Negotiating Trauma and Emotion: Writing the Biography of Mary MacSwiney Zachary Leader (University of Roehampton): Ellmann’s Joyce: Biography and Speculation Emilie Morin (University of York): The Silence of Suzanne Beckett From 19.00 * dinner * Venue: Wirtshaus Paulaner am Dom
May 23, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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It's Day One of "Modernist Life Righting"! Featuring biofiction, visual art, biography and more!
Modernist Life Righting: Corrective Self-Portraiture in the 20th and 21st century Institute of English and American Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt, 22–23 May 2025 THURSDAY 22 May | IG Nebengebäude 2.701 [Building 3 on the campus map] 09.30–11.00 PANEL 1 Chair: Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) Ronan Crowley (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main): Irish Facts Julia Dallaway (University of Oxford): Autobiocartography: Mapping Memory in Walter Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood around 1900 and Elizabeth Bowen’s Seven Winters: Memories of a Dublin Childhood Laura Cernat (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven): Joyce’s Prodromal Lucia in Finnegans Wake: Inscribing the Breakdown into the Fall (The Biofictional Hypothesis) 11.00–11.30 * coffee break * 11.30–13.00 PANEL 2 Chair: Ronan Crowley (Goethe-Universität) Julie Bates (Trinity College Dublin): Modernism down a Boreen: Erica Van Horn Leeanne Quinn (poet-creative): Biographical Landscapes: from Nano Reid to Ingeborg Bachmann Lauren Arrington (University of South Florida): Wronging Rights: Political Fear and Rewriting the Archive 13.00–15.00 * lunch at Café Sturm & Drang * 15.00–16.30 PANEL 3 Chair: Dúnlaith Bird (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord) Scarlett Baron (University College London): Literature in the Age of the Self (online) John Greaney (University College Dublin): On the Contemporaneity of Modernism: The Reconstitution of Europe and the Renationalisation of the Avant-garde Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin): Modernist Aftermaths: Deconstructing the Author in Nuala O’Connor’s Nora and Colm Tóibín’s The Magician From 17.15 Reception and Book Launch hosted by the Consulate General of Ireland, Frankfurt Leeann Lane: Mary MacSwiney Introduced by Lauren Arrington (University of South Florida) Zachary Leader: Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker Introduced by Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin)
May 22, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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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!!
Modernist Life Righting Corrective Self-Portraiture in the 20th and 21st century Institute of English and American Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt 22-23 May 2025 Lauren Arrington (University of South Florida) Scarlett Baron (University College London) Julie Bates (Trinity College Dublin) Dúnlaith Bird (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord) Laura Cernat (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Ronan Crowley (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) Julia Dallaway (University of Oxford) Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) Megan Girdwood (University of Edinburgh) Leeann Lane (Dublin City University) Zachary Leader (University of Roehampton) Lianna Mark (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Emilie Morin (University of York) Georgina Nugent (University College Cork) Leeanne Quinn (poet-creative) Sam Thompson (Queen's University Belfast) Feargal Whelan (Trinity College Dublin) For more information about the conference or to register, please contact Georgina Nugent georginanugent@ucc.ie or Ronan Crowley crowley@em.uni-frankfurt.de.
May 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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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
You're invited to the BOOK LAUNCH of Zachary Leader’s new book, Ellmann’s Joyce, Cork City Library, Saturday 17 May 4pm where Zachary Leader will be joined in-conversation with Georgina Nugent.
May 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Two exciting things crossed my path today: the biggest King Oyster mushroom I have ever seen, and Pascale Sardin's new biography of Barbara Bray: Barbara Bray, A Woman of Letters. 🍄📘
An enormous book sized King Oyster mushroom is held aloft beside Pascale Sardin's biography of Barbara Bray.
February 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Here it is, Ulysses Forty Years: A Critical Retrospective of Hans Walter Gabler's Critical & Synoptic Edition of Ulysses, with brilliant chapters by @shinjinichatto.bsky.social, Paola Pugliatti, @wvmierlo.bsky.social, Elizabeth Bonapfel, & more. Available from Liverpool UP & Clemson UP 🌊
December 19, 2024 at 5:48 PM