The YAWP: Villanova's Graduate English Program Blog

Each summer, the Univeristy of Notre Dame offers a three-week Irish Studies Seminar in Dublin that has a very strong national reputation. Tuition and housing are usually around $4,000 per student. This year, the seminar has offered a special "two students for the price of one" deal to our students. One student has already expressed interest in the program. If you are interested in participating, please contact Dr. Heather Hicks! Here is some more information regarding the program: The IRISH SEMINAR 2011: Irish Modernisms 20 June – 8 July 2011 THEME Modernism, marked by a strongly self-conscious rupture with tradition and a formal and conceptual inventiveness, is often understood as a vigorous reaction against established religious, social and political views. Informed on one hand by the horrors of the Great War (1914-18) and governed on the other by a belief that our world is created in the very act of perceiving it, no absolute truth existed to provide guidance o...

At 1:00 PM on Thursday, February 17th, Fiach Mac Conghail, the director of the Abbey Theater, is speaking to Irish Literature classes. The event will take place in the Villanova University Theatre and we encourage you to attend!

On Thursday the 17th of February, the Annenberg Center will be hosting the Abbey Theatre's production of "Terminus" by Mark O'Rowe. The event will take place at 8:00 PM and those graduate students who wish should attend should contact Dr. Joseph Lennon. Some free tickets are available!

At 4:30 PM on Tuesday, February 15th, the Irish Studies Program will be hosting "James Joyce, Pioneer of Page and Screen." There will be a lecture given by John McCourt of the University of Trieste, followed by a film. McCourt is a world-renowned Joyce scholar who has written about Joyce’s time in Trieste in his biography, The Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste, 1904–1920. The event will take place in Room 300 of the St. Augustine Center and we encourage you to attend!

Anamesa , a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal of graduate student writing and art based at New York University, is now accepting submissions for its Spring 2011 print issue. Graduate students across all disciplines are encouraged to send in writing including but not limited to: ~Academic essays ~Creative non-fiction ~Reportage ~Interviews ~Reviews ~Short stories ~Poetry ~Other unclassifiable prose creations, and art of all sorts (such as photography, drawings, paintings, film stills, posters, prints, etc.). Anamesa considers material from diverse subject matter, and publishes creative and intelligent works that exemplify the transdisciplinary spirit of the graduate community. Submission guidelines for papers: Include complete paper (up to 6000 words), abstract (up to 200 words), and cover sheet. Academic papers must adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style. All paper submissions—both non-fiction and fiction—are blind-reviewed so there should be no author-identifying i...

On Thursday, February 3rd the Villanova Irish Studies Program helped celebrate James Joyce's birthday at Flip and Bailey's. There was Irish music, dance, and readings at the open mic from works by James Joyce and other Irish writers. The Villanova Irish Dance Club also performed, as did musicians from Villanova and the Ancient Order of Hibernians. Thanks to all who attended and performed!