Textual Revenants: Critical editions and the haunting of literary study
Kate Costello-Sullivan on creating her critical edition of J. S. Le Fanu's Carmilla
9/27 at 1:00pm, AUST 216
Costello-Sullivan is Professor of Modern Irish Literature and Dean of CAS at Le Moyne College, NY, where she founded the Irish literature program. She has published widely on contemporary Irish and Anglo-Irish women's fiction. Her study, Mother/Country: Politics of the Personal in the Fiction of Colm Tóibín, was the first monograph on his work. She has edited two critical editions, including J.S. Le Fanu’s classic vampire tale, Carmilla. Trauma and Recovery in the 21st-Century Irish Novel was published this spring by Syracuse UP, where she has just been appointed General Editor. She is current VP of the American Conference for Irish Studies.
Producing an edited collection comes with challenges; however, new editions can also catalyze different understandings of a given text and revolutionize our reading of the subject author's milieu. Dr. Costello-Sullivan will discuss the editing process, as well as the specific opportunities in the case of Carmilla, to show how new literary frameworks can alter understanding.
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