Georgina Nugent

Aosdána member and Saoi Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin awarded Honorary Doctorate of Literature by UCC - Aosdána The trailblazing poet, scholar, editor, Saoi of Aosdána and former Ireland Professor of Poetry, Professor Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin was honoured the Honorary Doctorate by University College Cork (UCC) fo...

It was the honour of my academic career to co-nominate and co-deliver (with the amazing Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh) the citation for Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's Honorary Doctorate from @ucc.ie. ❤️

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29th November 2025 is scheduled for the online Samuel Beckett seminar, “Decoding Colding in Beckett.”

Please share the details (below)with your colleagues, students, and friends.

Two months to the deadline for abstracts for ‘James Joyce in Relation: Gender, Labour, Legacy’. We invite feminist, queer, intersectional & transnational work that rethinks Joyce’s relations with his women contemporaries & interrogates reception, networks & the gendered infrastructures of modernism.

YouTube video by Centre for Irish Studies Prague Panel Session for Early Career Researchers in Irish Studies

Last month I took part in a plenary session on Early Career Research & Career Building with James Little & Ondřej Pilný at the International Postgraduates Conference in Irish Studies, CU Prague. I start talking about my experiences as an ECR at the 1hr 13 minute mark.

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A close up of a placard from Samuel Beckett: The German Room which reads: The exhibition, organised in cooperation with the Tophoven Archive (Straelen) and the Beckett Archive (Reading), is accompanied by an academic programme organised by Dr Georgina Nugent (University College Cork) and a cultural programme.

A photograph of a portion of the exhibition Samuel Beckett: The German Room. The room is predominantly grey, with boxes of text in white.

A close up of a placard for Samuel Beckett: The German Room, an exhibition at the University of Regensburg.

Yesterday I was in Regensburg for the opening of Samuel Beckett: The German Room. It was mad cool to organise the academic programme for this exhibition, and there's more to come in January :)

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I was precarious for a long time & in three different countries. I have a lot to say on the topic, so it's nice to start saying some of this tomorrow at the International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies, Centre for Irish Studies, CU Prague.
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The poet Ellen Dillon read at O’Bhéal go Béal tonight to a packed house. What an artist. Master of craft and scholar of poetry. Proof that good writing takes time and effort. Excited for her next book. Properly achieved poetry tonight. No short cuts.

Feel extremely lucky to work with the class act, poetic genius, and all round legend that is @lizquirke.bsky.social. Read her new essay in @stingingfly.bsky.social, it's amazing!!

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‘I don’t believe in the unspeakable or untranslatable. That’s imperial logic and privilege – empire bombs incessantly, and then says the deaths are unspeakable? No, we need to speak about every bomb, every destroyed body, every hour that these bombs landed’–Don Mee Choi, Chicago Review of Books 68.1

"Leeanne Quinn. Read her"

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Born in 1900 "She was forty-four when she gained the right to vote. In 1961, when she married Beckett...French matrimonial law still forbade married women from looking after their own interests: they could not open a bank account or exercise a profession without their husbands’ permission" 🤯

Read this book and be mad as hell!! But read it! There is something so haunted about trying to catch a glimpse of her through the veil of paraphrase the copywrite situation has thrown over her work.

Thank you Sasha! ❤️❤️❤️

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Reading tonight in Berlin with Maria Stepanova and Eugene Ostashevsky. www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/de/events/ly...

I want to briefly talk about one thing people don't really talk about too much with precarity and one thing that most senior staff gloss over, offering a platitude instead of engaging with what is fundamentally wrong with the precarity situation in the UK. 1/

Same!!

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Anyone with even a passing interest in Beckett needs to read Emilie Morin's biography of Suzanne Dumesnil: it's free to download for the next two weeks. This is feminist restorative history in action: read this book!!!

Thank you Claire! 🙏

Thank you! 😍🙏

CFP: James Joyce in Relation: Gender, Labour, Legacy, a special issue of Feminist Modernist Studies, guest edited by Ronan Crowley & myself. Please take a look at the CFP and send your proposals our way. Proposals from non-Joyceans are ESPECIALLY welcome:

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Thank you to Professor Lauren Arrington for launching my book at the Frankfurt Modernist conference organised so wonderfully by @georginanugent.bsky.social and Ronan Crowley and hosted by the Irish Consulate, Frankfurt. I was honoured to be in the company of the amazing Zackary Leader.

Thank you so much for speaking about your incredible work! And for swapping dog pics 🥰❤️

FRIDAY 23 May | IG Farbenhaus Eisenhower Room [Building 1 on the campus map] 09.30–11.00 PANEL 4 Chair: Emilie Morin (University of York) Megan Girdwood (University of Edinburgh): Kitty Cannell among the Modernists Lianna Mark (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): Theatres of Life-Righting Georgina Nugent (University College Cork): Corrective Life Righting in Modernism and Beyond 11.00–11.30 * coffee break * 11.30–13.00 PANEL 5 Chair: Julie Bates (Trinity College Dublin) Feargal Whelan (Trinity College Dublin): Harping: (Re)-Visiting Irish and Childhood Landscapes in Beckett’s Company Sam Thompson (Queen’s University Belfast): ‘We were Pylades and Orestes, flattened down to something very genteel’: Fictionalising a Friendship with Samuel Beckett Dúnlaith Bird (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord): Playing Games: Suzanne Dumesnil and Musique Jeux (1935) 13.00–15.00 * lunch at Café Sturm & Drang * 15.00–16.30 PANEL 6 Chairs: Georgina Nugent (University College Cork) Leeann Lane (Dublin City University): Negotiating Trauma and Emotion: Writing the Biography of Mary MacSwiney Zachary Leader (University of Roehampton): Ellmann’s Joyce: Biography and Speculation Emilie Morin (University of York): The Silence of Suzanne Beckett From 19.00 * dinner * Venue: Wirtshaus Paulaner am Dom

Day Two of "Modernist Life Righting". With Kitty Cannell, Gertrude Stein, contemporary theater, Samuel Beckett, and mega biographers Leeann Lane, Zachary Leader & Emilie Morin!

Modernist Life Righting: Corrective Self-Portraiture in the 20th and 21st century Institute of English and American Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt, 22–23 May 2025 THURSDAY 22 May | IG Nebengebäude 2.701 [Building 3 on the campus map] 09.30–11.00 PANEL 1 Chair: Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) Ronan Crowley (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main): Irish Facts Julia Dallaway (University of Oxford): Autobiocartography: Mapping Memory in Walter Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood around 1900 and Elizabeth Bowen’s Seven Winters: Memories of a Dublin Childhood Laura Cernat (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven): Joyce’s Prodromal Lucia in Finnegans Wake: Inscribing the Breakdown into the Fall (The Biofictional Hypothesis) 11.00–11.30 * coffee break * 11.30–13.00 PANEL 2 Chair: Ronan Crowley (Goethe-Universität) Julie Bates (Trinity College Dublin): Modernism down a Boreen: Erica Van Horn Leeanne Quinn (poet-creative): Biographical Landscapes: from Nano Reid to Ingeborg Bachmann Lauren Arrington (University of South Florida): Wronging Rights: Political Fear and Rewriting the Archive 13.00–15.00 * lunch at Café Sturm & Drang * 15.00–16.30 PANEL 3 Chair: Dúnlaith Bird (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord) Scarlett Baron (University College London): Literature in the Age of the Self (online) John Greaney (University College Dublin): On the Contemporaneity of Modernism: The Reconstitution of Europe and the Renationalisation of the Avant-garde Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin): Modernist Aftermaths: Deconstructing the Author in Nuala O’Connor’s Nora and Colm Tóibín’s The Magician From 17.15 Reception and Book Launch hosted by the Consulate General of Ireland, Frankfurt Leeann Lane: Mary MacSwiney Introduced by Lauren Arrington (University of South Florida) Zachary Leader: Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker Introduced by Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin)

It's Day One of "Modernist Life Righting"! Featuring biofiction, visual art, biography and more!

Today, in Cork City Library!

Modernist Life Righting Corrective Self-Portraiture in the 20th and 21st century Institute of English and American Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt 22-23 May 2025 Lauren Arrington (University of South Florida) Scarlett Baron (University College London) Julie Bates (Trinity College Dublin) Dúnlaith Bird (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord) Laura Cernat (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Ronan Crowley (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) Julia Dallaway (University of Oxford) Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) Megan Girdwood (University of Edinburgh) Leeann Lane (Dublin City University) Zachary Leader (University of Roehampton) Lianna Mark (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Emilie Morin (University of York) Georgina Nugent (University College Cork) Leeanne Quinn (poet-creative) Sam Thompson (Queen's University Belfast) Feargal Whelan (Trinity College Dublin) For more information about the conference or to register, please contact Georgina Nugent georginanugent@ucc.ie or Ronan Crowley crowley@em.uni-frankfurt.de.

Very happy to share the speaker list for "Modernist Life Righting: Corrective Self-Portraiture in the 20th and 21st Century", a two day conference I've co-organized with Ronan Crowley. Taking place later this month at @goetheuni.bsky.social. Look at this amazing lineup of speakers!!