Finding Lady Gregory: Teaching, Research and Performance Practice in Global Contexts- A joint talk by Dr Emer O’Toole and Dr Anna Pilz

Finding Lady Gregory: Teaching, Research and Performance Practice in Global Contexts

A joint talk by Moore Visiting Fellows: Dr Emer O’Toole (Concordia) and Dr Anna Pilz (UCC), chaired by Dr Miriam Haughton, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance

Dr Anna Pilz lectures on Irish and English literature in the School of English at University College Cork. In May 2017, she is Moore Institute Visiting Fellow at NUI Galway to consult the Abbey Digital Theatre Archive. Her research interests include the Irish Literary Revival, Irish literary theatre history (particularly the Abbey Theatre), and women’s writing. She is co-editor of a volume of essays on Irish Women’s Writing, 1878-1922: Advancing the Cause of Liberty (Manchester University Press 2016). She has published articles and book chapters on Irish playwright Lady Gregory and is currently completing two monograph projects, including Lady Gregory’s Drama: The Playwright and Her Audiences.

Dr Emer O’Toole is Assistant Professor of Irish Performance Studies at Concordia University, Montréal. She is a proud graduate of NUI Galway, with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Philosophy. Her doctorate (Royal Holloway University of London, 2012) examined the ethics of intercultural theatre, while her current research addresses the relationship between activism and theatre art in Ireland. She is author of the book Girls Will Be Girls (2015), which makes Judith Butler’s theory of gender performativity accessible to a non-academic audience, and co-editor of the forthcoming volume Ethical Exchanges, which unpacks the ethical dimensions of the theatrical practices of translation, adaptation and dramaturgy. Her scholarly work appears in international publications including Target; the Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance; Literature, Interpretation, Theory (LIT); and alt.theatre. She is also a newspaper columnist, who regularly contributes to The Guardian and The Irish Times.