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Events for the English DepartmentIRELAND 1880-1920Date: March 30, 2011 Place: McIntyre Lounge Keynote Address: (10:00 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.) “The Legacy of the Gaelic Revival: Implications for Current Policy and Teaching” Prof. Thomas W. Ihde, Ph.D. – Director, Institute for Irish American Studies, Lehman College. Faculty Papers:(11:00 a.m.–11:50 a.m.) “The Irish Arts Center: A Case Study in Ethnic Revival” Donal Malone, Ph.D., Sociology Dept “Trooping with the Sidhe: Gods, Warriors, and Wonder” Prof. Constance Wagner, English Dept. Student Papers (1:00 p.m.–1:50 p.m.) “Celtic Pride,” Mary Steele and Rose Driscoll “The World of Oscar Wilde,” Maude Sutherland “The Dead,” by James Joyce. James Moretto “Why So Many Irish Became Domestics in the U.S.” By students in Prof. Malone’s course "From Famine to Feast: The Irish in America” Jacqueline Barry, Christine Harris, Melanie McBride, Daniel O’Connell, Brittany Ortiz, Diana Polanco, Allyson Pullis, and Mary Steele Irish Drama and Music (2:00 p.m. –3:00 p.m.) Monologues presented by students from Prof. White’s New York Theater Live Class: “Saint Joan,” by George Bernard Shaw. Mackenzie Flint “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” by Oscar Wilde. Michael J. Storey “Lady Windermere’s Fan,” by Oscar Wilde. Patricia A. Sebastian “Granuaile and the Music of Irish Nationalism” Dr. Rachel Wifall, English/Honors Dept. This event is co-sponsored by the English and History Departments, the O’Toole Library, the English and History Clubs and the Irish-American Club. Be sure to check out the SPC Library's exhibit Irish Literature 1880-1920. In Memory of Connor P. Hartnett, Ph.D. (8/24/24 – 8/30/10) In Memory of Reverend T. Patrick Lynch, S.J. (8/19/30 – 2/28/11) The English Department Conference on Modernism was held on March 4, 2010Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned… Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand… And what rough beat, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born? --William Butler Yeats, from “The Second Coming” (1919 Modernism: Introductions From Literature and History (10:00 am to 10:50 am) Location: McIntyre Hall Modernism in American Literature: “Concordia Discors,” Modernized Dr. Loren Schmidtberger, Professor Emeritus, English Department Modernism in British Literature: Virginia Woolf, Modernism, and the War Dr. Paul Almonte, Assistant Professor, English Department Modernism and History: The Impact of World War I Dr. David Gerlach, Assistant Professor, History Department Introduction by Dr. Kathleen Monahan, Professor and Chair, English Department Philosophic and Artistic Modernisms (11:00 am to 11:50 am) Location: McIntyre Hall The Philosophy of Modernism Dr. Lisa O’Neill, Associate Professor, Philosophy Department Modernism in Latin America Dr. Mark DeStephano, S. J., Professor and Chair of Languages Department Deco New York Dr. Thomas Folk, Adjunct Professor, Fine Arts Department Introduction by Dr. Ray Conlon, Professor, English Department. Musical Modernism (12:00 pm to 12:50 pm) Location: McIntyre Hall (by invitation only) “Moment Musical, Op. 16, No 4” by the late-Romantic, Modernist composer Sergei Rachmaninoff Jonathan Herrmann, pianist. Introduction and Prefatory Remarks on Rachmaninoff by James Adler, Professor, Fine Arts Department Speaker - John MenaghanMr. Mehaghan spoke in Pope Lecture Hall in February 2008. This event was run by both the English Department and the English Club.
Menaghan’s recent move into playwriting has seen his one-act play A Rumor of Rain performed at the Empty Stage Theater in Los Angeles (as part of an evening that included work by John Patrick Shanley and Neil Simon) and given staged readings at the ATHE theater conference in San Francisco, by the Women in Theatre group in Los Angeles, and as part of the New Works Festival at Loyola Marymount University. Two other one-acts, What? and Break of Day, have been given staged readings at Barnsdall Park in Hollywood, the latter directed by the author himself. And both A Rumor of Rain & his latest short play To Put Away Childish Things? have been selected for upcoming staged readings as part of “Script Tease 2007” in San Diego. Menaghan is the winner of an Academy of American Poets Prize and other awards, and has published poems and articles in Irish, American, and Canadian journals. He has given readings in London, Paris, Debrecen (Hungary), around Ireland, and across the U.S. from New York to Honolulu. He teaches literature and creative writing at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where he also serves as Director of both the Irish Studies & Summer in Ireland programs and runs the annual LMU Irish Cultural Festival. He is currently working on two full-length plays, one set in Berkeley, California, the other in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and a sequence of short plays on the theme of leaving and being left behind. His third volume of poetry is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry in Fall 2009. |
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