> Hi Alison,
I hope you don't mind my "eavesdropping," so to speak, but the 2 books
you have coming out sound very interesting to me. Could you possibly
let me know when they become available?
Your colleague who has worked on translations of Chekhov & Friel
sounds very interesting, too. Part of the work I'm doing brings both
of them in (along with Yeats, Synge, O'Casey, Lady Gregory, Gogol, & a
lot of other dramatists neither Irish nor Russian, though I think the
Irish-Russian connection is very important). Has your friend worked
on both of the writer's plays as well as their short stories?
Good luck with the conference; I'll be there in spirit even if I
can't get the body there.
All the best,
Maureen
Dear Paula,
> another 'marked' woman. I think we are all drowning in marking now! Just
> thought I'd let you know, if you want any research resources I have a book
> coming out this year on Brian Friel's 'liminal' drama, and another called
> 'Drama, Text and Perfomance' which tries to 'marry' the two aspects of
> Drama study. My colleague has also done a lot of research on translations
> of Friel and Checkhov...he'd be only too happy to offer any help he could.
> He's a [retired] Comp lit professor who is fluent in some 12 languages, so
> he may be a useful source of ideas.
> I hope to see you in Sunderland in November
> Sl an go foill
> Alison
>
> paula pratt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> --- Maureen Hawkins wrote:
>
> A *lot* of good stuff! Wow! This is Paula Pratt, here
> in Morocco, just taking time enough away from grading
> final papers and portfolios, to say that I will
> probably want to quote from your email in the essay
> attached to my current research project: basically, a
> chamber theatre production based on (translated) texts
> by Irish and Moroccan women writers. I've just re-read
> _Translations_ and will probably write you, Maureen,
> for more insights there. Just wanted to reflect on
> past experience knowing Carol Banks back in the 1990's
> when she was one of (if not the) first to do a thesis
> on Irish women dramatists, when that topic was even
> more obscure than now.
>
> My daughter has her Master's degree in using "drama in
> education," and what you say about drama not being
> seen as "serious literature" just vindicates what
> she's experienced when trying to convince teachers of
> the creative uses they can make of theatre/drama in
> the classroom. That's a bit off-topic here, but it
> was, in part, her influence (she was then a university
> undergrad) that caused me to explore the idea of doing
> a readers' theatre production of Irish women's poetry
> for my Ph.D. dissertation.
>
> Back then (late 80's - early to mid-90's) panels on
> Irish women writers might have had better attendance,
> since they seemed to enjoy a bit of a "boom" phase and
> token inclusion on conference panel lists. Since 1997,
> when I came to Morocco, I've been mostly out of touch
> with Irish studies in any formal way, but am on this
> list because I need to be back in touch. I am going to
> try my best to do something at the Sunderland
> conference, since it's relatively close, and I need an
> opportunity to give my project a dry run of sorts.
>
> So, Maureen, do you think we may have met in the past
> at ACIS or CAIS? Your name sounds familiar. Anyway, I
> thoroughly enjoyed your thoughts; never apologize (to
> me, at any rate) for being long, when it's this
> worthwhile.
>
> Paula Pratt
> Asst. Prof. of Humanities
> Al Akhawayn University
> Ifrane, MOROCCO
> [log in to unmask]
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>
> Alison O'Malley-Younger [Dr]
> Department of English
> University of Sunderland
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