Getting to Good Friday: Literature and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland

Marilynn Richtarik

(Georgia State University)

“Getting to Good Friday: Literature and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland”

Biography:

Dr. Richtarik teaches courses on 20^th-century British, Irish, and world literature and modern drama. She was educated at Harvard (where she earned an undergraduate honors degree in American History and Literature) and at Oxford University, which she attended as a Rhodes Scholar. Her research interests center on Northern Irish literature and theatre, where politics and artistic production are intimately related. Her research has been supported by the Rhodes Trust, the Killam Trust, the American Philosophical Society, the National Humanities Center, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Hambidge Center, and the US-UK Fulbright Commission.