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‘The Traveller Woman in Ireland as a Literary Device and as a Whole Human’ A talk by Melania Terrazas

October 12, 2017 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

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Date:
October 12, 2017
Time:
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Venue

Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building

The Traveller Woman in Ireland as a Literary Device and as a Whole Human

The talk features a work-in-progress session on the figure of the Irish traveller woman by Melania Terrazas of the University of La Rioja, Spain. Dr Terrazas discusses the traveller woman as a literary device and as a whole human in the work of various contemporary Irish fe/male short story writers, playwrights, novelists, poets and filmmakers who either present the figure in their productions and/or are committed to the Traveller Women Movement in Ireland today.

The idea for this talk developed out of the XVI International Conference of the Spanish Association for Irish Studies (AEDEI), “Fe/male Challenges in Irish Studies from the 19th to the 21st Centuries”, organized by Dr Terrazas on 25–27 May 2017 (www.unirioja.es/aedei2017) as part of the research activity developed by the IDENTIT-ART team (Gender and identity in literary and audiovisual English texts), also directed by Dr Terrazas. This conference was the culmination of a three-year competitive research project.

 

Melania Terrazas is Senior Lecturer in English Studies and International Mobility Programs Coordinator at the University of La Rioja (Spain). She is on the Executive Board of AEDEI (The Spanish Association for Irish Studies) and a founding member of the Centre for Irish Studies BANNA/BOND (EFACIS). She is currently a visiting scholar at Huston School of Film Studies and Digital Media (NUI Galway) and conducting research at the Moore Institute, where she is co-editing a collection on satire theory and practice, and editing a special journal issue on gender issues in contemporary Irish literature and a volume on trauma and identity issues in contemporary Irish culture. Financial support was received from the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport through the “Salvador de Madariaga” mobility programme (code PRX17/00339), and the University of La Rioja through project number APPI17/06.