Hi all. Thanks for tuning in! I’m just going to talk briefly and generally about my comps research into Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and the interesting ways in which Rushdie manipulates and exposes notions of national history and the narrative time of the nation. Please excuse me for the overabundance…
While public approaches to commemoration in Northern Ireland, such as the extensive mural tradition, are often defined by “sectarian constructs of society which reify an essentialist identity,” the more private and personal realm of fiction allows diverse voices to be represented in the public memory and perception (Graham and Whelan…
The title of my comps was “Alternative Truth and Narrative Freedoms in Vietnam War Literature.” I examine the use of autofictional devices in Tim O’ Brien’s The Things They Carried and lê thi diem thúy’s The Gangster We Are All Looking For which allow the narrators to construct a single…
This video is a quick overview of my research comps, ‘“Double, Double, toil and trouble?’ The Multiplicitous Nature of the Weird Sisters and its Effects on Culpability in Shakespeare’s Macbeth.” This project came out of my interests in Macbeth (it’s my favorite Shakespearean tragedy) and in Early Modern British History….
