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Beckett and Embodiment: Body, Space and Agency – Q&A with the author
Read moreby Amanda M. Dennis Tell us a bit about your book. Beckett and Embodiment interrogates the strange, disconcerting representations of…
The Appeal of the Fantastic and the Improbable in Late Eighteenth Century Children’s Literature: Part Two
By Maryam Khorasani and Hossein Nazari Read part 1 of this blog series. Much Ado about Witchcraft in The History…
The Appeal of the Fantastic and the Improbable in Late Eighteenth Century Children’s Literature: Part One
By Maryam Khorasani and Hossein Nazari Taking into account their concern about the moralistic upbringing of the children of a…
Writing Letters, Writing Lives: Dash & Lily and Born in Exile
By Tom Ue Dash & Lily (2020-), Netflix’s charming new adaptation of Rachel Cohn’s and David Levithan’s popular YA series…
Gothic Novel or Grad School?: A Quiz
By Anna Williams Directions: read the plots below and determine whether they describe a Gothic novel or grad school. A…
Staging Banquo’s Ghost
Catherine Belsey and Alan Dessen discuss the complexities of creating Banquo's ghost for the stage in Macbeth.
An extract from Lucretius II by Thomas Nail
Take a peek at the book extract from the recently published Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion by Thomas Nail.…
Irish University Review turns 50!
Irish University Review, the leading journal dedicated to Irish literary criticism, turns 50 this year, and to celebrate, we have…
Ghost Stories in the Post-Truth Age – A Dialogue
Charlie Pidcock interviews Catherine Belsey about her latest book, Tales of the Troubled Dead, which traces examples of ghost stories from Homer to present.
Making Renaissance Literature Matter Now: Five Practical Strategies for Pursuing Justice in the Classroom
Making Renaissance Literature Matter Now: Wendy Beth Hyman and Hillary Eklund discuss five practical strategies for pursuing justice in the classroom