Contemporary Irish Fiction with Valerie Fehlbaum

{"title":"Contemporary Irish Fiction with Valerie Fehlbaum","description":"After obtaining her B.A. at St Hilda\u2019s College, Oxford, Valerie Fehlbaum moved to Switzerland where she taught English as a Foreign Language for a few years before joining the English Department at the University of Geneva. She then went on to obtain an M.A. in Gender Studies and a Ph.D. on the New Woman at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Her subsequent monograph on Ella Hepworth Dixon was initially published by Ashgate in 2005 and republished in paperback by Taylor & Francis in 2019. She has also lectured at the University of Neuch\u00e2tel and tutored with the Open University.\r\n\r\nIrish writers have often occupied a liminal space in what is generally referred to as English Literature. Are they insiders or outsiders? Or both? Is there a specifically Irish Literature? In this cercle de lecture, through close analysis of some recent, highly-acclaimed fiction by Irish writers, we shall attempt to answer such questions.\r\n\r\nChosen authors and texts:\r\n\r\nSept. 24: Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn\u00a0\u003Cem\u003E(Brooklyn; Long Island\u003C\/em\u003E)\r\nOct. 8: Sally Rooney\u00a0(\u003Cem\u003ENormal People; Intermezzo\u003C\/em\u003E)\r\nNov. 12: Claire Keegan\u00a0(\u003Cem\u003EFoster; Small Things Like These\u003C\/em\u003E)\r\nDec. 17: Anne Enright\u00a0(\u003Cem\u003EThe Wren, the Wren; Actress\u003C\/em\u003E)\r\n\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EIn English.\u003C\/strong\u003E","start_date":"2025-09-24","end_date":"2025-12-17","date":"24 September - 17 December","timings":[{"timing_start_date":"20250924T163000Z","timing_end_date":"20250924T174500Z"},{"timing_start_date":"20251008T163000Z","timing_end_date":"20251008T174500Z"},{"timing_start_date":"20251112T173000Z","timing_end_date":"20251112T184500Z"},{"timing_start_date":"20251217T173000Z","timing_end_date":"20251217T184500Z"}]}