Gerson Irish Reading 2020
7:00 pm Alumni House
EMILIE PINE, prominent Dublin writer and academic, will read from her Irish best-selling memoir, Notes to Self (2018), which charts, in exquisite prose, her minor celebrity status during her “wild child” teenage years, the suicidal ideation brought on by overwork in her academic position, and her struggles with fertility.
Notes to Self was awarded the Irish American Cultural Institute Butler Literary Prize, the Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year Literary Award, and the An Post Irish Book of the Year Award, 2018. An Associate Professor of Modern Drama at University College Dublin, Prof. Pine edits Irish University Review, directs the Irish Memory Studies Network, and is PI of Industrial Memories, a digital humanities re-reading of institutional child abuse in Ireland. Her scholarly books include The Politics of Irish Memory (Palgrave, 2011) and The Memory Marketplace (Indiana University Press, 2020).
Free & open to all
mary.burke@uconn.edu for accommodations
Sponsored by Irish Studies & the Gerson Family Fund and with the assistance of Creative Writing
For more information, contact: Mary Burke at mary.burke@uconn.edu