What is learned and discussed while in a master’s program at the College of Charleston is never just relegated to the classroom, as demonstrated recently by four students who presented their research on a panel entitled “Rethinking Joyce” during the American Conference for Irish Studies Southern Region Annual Meeting (ACIS South). The panel, which was chaired by College of Charleston English Professor Joe Kelly, grew out of his Fall 2018 Joyce and Yeats class. The panel included two MA in English students and two MFA in Creative Writing students. Jillian Brenner (MFA) presented “Colors and Religion in Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man”; Sarah Davis (MA) spoke on “Madams and Perverse Madonnas: Subversive Irish Womanhood in James Joyce’s ‘The Boarding House’”; Jennifer North (MA) presented “James Joyce: Exiled from the Irish Language”; and Will Greene (MFA) read “Flower Unfurling: Urine and Urination in A Portrait of the Artist and Ulysses.’”
The ACIS South conference, titled “Home and Away: Imaginings and Experiences,” was held at the College of Charleston Jan. 31-Feb. 2 and was hosted by the Irish and Irish-American Studies at the College of Charleston. The conference explored how concepts of being both home and away have been and continue to be imagined, created, lived, and resisted in Ireland and the Irish Diaspora. Co-sponsoring organizations and donors included the College of Charleston’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the Department of English, the Department of History, and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences; and the American Conference for Irish Studies.
Pictured, from left: Jennifer North, Prof. Joe Kelly, Sarah Davis, Jillian Brenner, and Will Greene
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