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  • 11/2 Tara Harney-Mahajan on Irish Women's Writing

     

    Two talks by Tara HARNEY-MAHAJAN on IRISH WOMEN's writing

    "The Politics of Illegitimacy in McKeon's Solace"                   12:30 pm. Nov. 2 (Thurs.), AUST 445

     

    "Contextualizing Irish Women's Writing and O'Brien's Country Girls Trilogy: Revision and Resistance"      

                                                                                               3:30 pm. Nov. 2 (Thurs.), AUST 217

    Tara Harney-Mahajan received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Connecticut in 2016 and she is currently the co-editor of LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory. Her research interests include 20th- and 21st-century Irish and South Asian literature, with a focus on women writers. Her scholarship has been published in Women’s Studies, New Hibernia Review, and The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her talks will consider contemporary Irish novelist Belinda McKeon and canonical twentieth-century Irish writer Enda O’Brien.

    For more information, contact: Mary Burke at mary.burke@uconn.edu