The “Digital Skills for Research Postgraduates in the Humanities and Social Sciences” Digital Arts and Humanities module consisted of a one-day intensive workshop that highlighted the advantages to be gained through the application of digital skills to humanities research. The workshop was predominantly theoretically based and commenced with a presentation from module coordinator Paul O’...
Bookends Committee Meeting
Very excited to see the official poster for Bookends 2015!
Bookends: Tenth Anniversary. Open Call for Papers.
“Bookends” is an annual conference which is run by postgraduate students in the School of English, University College Cork. This year it is celebrating its tenth anniversary with an open call for papers to best reflect the diversity and scope of the research produced within the School. Papers are...
Literature Review: The Early Stages of my Research.
I will be pursuing a thesis focused on Grendel’s mother from the Old English poem Beowulf, Guinevere’s mother from the Arthurian romance The Awntyrs off Arthur and the Pearl maiden from the allegorical Middle English poem Pearl. I will be consulting the following editions of the primary texts: The...
Emmerich’s Reimagining of Elizabeth I in “Anonymous”.
Dr Edel Semple’s research seminar entitled “The Writer, The Queen, and The Director: Shakespeare, Elizabeth I and Emmerich’s Anonymous.” examined Emmerich’s appropriation of the world’s most famous playwright and female monarch. Dr Semple’s thorough analysis of Emmerich’s appropriation of Elizabeth I inspired this blog post because it provided a...
Textualities Conference 2014
This is the finalised schedule for UCC Textualities Conference 2014 which convened in the Western Gateway Building G18 on Friday 28th March. The conference featured speakers presenting on topics inspired by their respective MA modules: American Literature and Film, Irish Writing and Film, Modernities: Romanticism, Modernism, Postmodernism and Texts and...
“The bankes are overflowen, when stopped is the flood”. Temperance in “The Faerie Queene”.
A recent review of my blog brought to my attention that I am sorely lacking in Renaissance material. Throughout my Higher Diploma I had somehow managed to circumvent studying Renaissance literature and it wasn’t until this term that I could consider myself formally introduced to the subject. Fortunately this...
UCC’s School of English Conference
Black metal! From Houston? Meet Brimwylf
Today’s bocgemot (Old English for reading group) revisited a pivotal scene from Beowulf, where Beowulf seeks out and challenges Grendel’s mother on her own territory. Personally I was interested in the Old English word Brimwylf (water-wolf), which is the poem’s initial reference to Grendel’s mother. You can imagine my...
Should we judge books by their covers?
Last week I was faced with a very difficult decision, to go see the new Lego Movie or attend a lecture given by Dr David Rundle entitled “The Uses of Books in Late Medieval Culture”? Fortunately for you, I chose the latter and was rewarded handsomely! Within the space of an hour this...
