Talk on DOROTHY MACARDLE by Caroline Heafey, Oct. 25, AUST 217 at 1:00pm
Dorothy Macardle (1889-1958) was an Irish novelist, playwright, and popular historian. She was imprisoned for her political beliefs during the Irish Civil War of the 1920s and was a journalist with the League of Nations in the 1930s. Her 1942 feminist Gothic novel, The Uninvited, was adapted for the screen by Hollywood in 1944.
The Halloween-appropriate film of The Uninvited will be SCREENED at 11:00am on 10/25 in AUST 202 (prior to Heafey’s talk).
Caroline Heafey is the foremost scholar of Macardle working today. Heafey’s new scholarly edition of Macardle’s 1953 novel Dark Enchantment is due out from Tramp Press next year and as a result of her groundbreaking work on Macardle’s prison writings during her MA at New York University, she is currently editing a critical edition of the author’s fiction and non-fiction works for an American university press. She has recently enrolled in the PhD program in English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she will continue her focus on 20th-century Irish women writers, transnational modernism, and trauma studies.
Both events FREE & OPEN
mary.burke@uconn.edu for ACCOMMODATIONS
For more information, contact: Mary M. Burke at 860 4866858