Catherine Phillips is Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Downing College, Cambridge.
Her interests are in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, especially the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Her most recent book is Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Victorian Visual World (OUP, 2007) and
she is currently editing Hopkins's letters and poems for the Complete Works (8 vols.) being published by Oxford University Press.
Editor:
G.M Hopkins Selected Poems (OUP)
GM HOpkins Selected Letters (OUP)
Robert Bridges: A Biography (OUP)
Alan Riach ,Chair of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University and President of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies is the general editor of the Collected Works of Hugh MacDiarmid (Carcanet) and the author of Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). His fourth book of poems, Clearances (2001), follows First & Last Songs (1995), An Open Return (1991) and This Folding Map (1990). His radio series The Good of the Arts , first broadcast in New Zealand 2001, may be visited at http://www.southwest.org.nz
Publications
This Folding Map An Open Return
First & Last Songs Clearances
Criticism
Hugh MacDiarmid's Epic Poetry The Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid Representing Scotland in Literature,
Popular Culture and Iconography
Editor and Co-Editor
The Collected Works of Hugh MacDiarmid The Radical Imagination: Lectures and Talks by Wilson Harris Scotlands: Poets and the Nation
Title of Alan Riach's Lecture: Hopkins and Scotland
Date: Monday 21st July 4.30 pm St. Paul's
Dr. Bloch, trained by renowned Isadora Duncan teachers Lori Belilove, Ellen Foreman, Gemze DeLappe, and the late Julia Levein, carries on the Duncan tradition in her staging of these dances.
Alice Bloch has a doctorate in Dance History from Temple University and a choreographic MA from UCLA.
Presentations on Duncan include :Isadora Duncan: Life into Art , a lecture-performance, and Isadora Duncan and the Dance of Democracy, on Duncan's radical educational theories.
Her article, Duncan Lives! will appear in the June issue of DanceMagazine .
Bloch dances to poetry in The Watching Heart: A Journey in Peace , a collaboration with Rumi scholar and poet Dr. Fatemeh Keshavarz.
Bloch dances the quest for Peace to a poem by Christian mystic, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and ponders her own spirituality in the witty Where's the Jew.
Time and Date of Bloch's Presentation: Thursday, July 22nd at 8 pm in St. Paul's.
In April of 1986, an unknown university teacher from Belfast was seized by Muslim gunmen in Beirut, Lebanon. Nearly five years later, Brian Keenan re-emerged as a free man. He had become "The Man from Beirut" and the world was anxious to watch his every movement.
He had survived his incarceration, chained to the walls of tiny cells, thanks in part to the companionship of the blind musician, considered by many as the father of Irish music 17th century harpist Turlough O'Carolan, who came to visit him - in his mind., is the subject of Keenan's latest novel Turlough .
In 1985, Brian Keenan travelled to Beirut to teach literature at the American University. A year later, he was taken hostage. No group claimed responsibility for the abduction; he had virtually disappeared. Then, in 1988, French hostage Jean-Paul Kauffmann, who had been freed by the Islamic Jihad, assured Keenan was alive. See The Maynooth Day
Title of Brian Keenan Lecture: Poetry and Captivity Sunday July 20th at 5.15 NUIM Maynooth
Diarmuid Johnson
Visiting Professor of Celtic language and literature, IFA, UAM, Poznan, Poland
2004-2006 Senior Translation Coordinator for the Localisation of OpenOffice 2.0 in Wales.
2002-2005 Editor of Transcript , a trilingual webzine for the promotion of 'smaller' European literatures
2002-2004 Content advisor for the Welsh Literature Abroad website
2000-2001 Lecturer in Irish, UW Aberystwyth
1999-2000 Editor of Cuisle , a national monthly current affairs magazine in Irish
Publications
Dafydd ap Gwilym: petite anthologie d'un grand barde gallois (co-translator and editor), (Wodan Books 1994) Súil Saoir (The Trained Eye) (poems in Gaelic, CIC, 2004) Sarah Eile (Another Sarah) (translation of Welsh novel Sarah Arall , Aled Islwyn) (CIC 2005) Coinnigh do Mhisneach (Tomorrow Wll Come), translation of Welsh novel Yfory Ddaw , Sioned Wyn Jones (CIC 2004) Defnyddio Agored (Welsh-language OpenOffice Computer Manual) ( (University of Wales, 06) (co-author)
Books forthcoming
Hanes Magu Cymro yn Wyddel (memoirs of Ireland in the 70s and 80s)(Gomer, 08)
An English translation of Y Dwr Mawr Llwyd , short stories by Robin Llywelyn (Parthian 08)
Title of Dr. Johnson's Lecture: Hopkind and Wales
Thursday July 24th 10 am St. Paul's
Kumiko Tanabe
Kumiko majored in Gerard Manley Hopkins, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Tennyson, in her MA Course of Osaka University (Japan) preparing a thesis on Contrast and Unity in Hopkins's Sonnets and now lectures at Doshisha University (Kyoto, Japan)
Dr. Tanabe has widely published, in English, on Hopkins and his poetry including: Fluidity and Subjectivity in G. M. Hopkins' "A Vision of the Mermaids"' ( Machikaneyama Ronso , No. 30, 1996) Hopkins' Poetics as Alchemy, the Motif of Death and Resurrection in Hopkins' Poetry' ( OLR , No.36, 1997) Hopkins' Conversion to Catholicism: The Meaning of the Eucharist in Hopkins' Poetics' ( Doshisha Literature , No. 41, 1998)
A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Idea of "Vision" and Greek Imagery in Hopkins' Poetry' (OLR , No. 37, 1998)
'Counter of Pitched Selves: Discordia Concors in Hopkins' Poetry' ( Chubu Eibungaku , No. 18, 1999)
Milton's Influence on Hopkins' Style' ( OLR , No. 38, 1999)
Inscape of Cathedral: Architectural Analogue in Hopkins' Poetry' ( Anthology of Essays in Commemoration of the Retirement of Professor Haruhiko Fujii . Eihosha, 2000)
Title of Dr. Tanabe's Lecture: Hopkins's Revision of Fancy
Date: Tuesday July 22nd at 10 am in St. Paul's
Michael Woods lives in Worcester, England with his wife and three children. He is Assistant Headteacher / Director of Sixth Form at The Chase School, Malvern. He researched Hopkins at Birmingham University and has published on the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy. His own poems have appeared in several anthologies.
Dr. Woods's Lecture title is: Hopkins: an English Perspective
Time and Date: Wednesday July 23rd at 10.30 am (approx.)
Fr. Joseph Sweeney
Title of Fr. Sweeney's lecture: Hopkins and Stonyhurst
Tuesday 22nd July 11.45 am St. Paul's
Fr. John Geary C.S.Sp.
Father Geary taught in schools in Canada from 1961 - 1989 and studied in Paris and Rome. He did his doctoral studies in Duquesne University
Interests: Studies in the Four Gospels; any form of English Literature; Music, Orchestral and Opera, Rugby Football.
Title of Fr. Geary's Lecture: The Sonnets of Donne and Hopkins
Thursday July 24th 11.45 St. Paul's
Angelo Bottone
Angelo Bottone is an associate lecturer at the School of Arts of the Dublin
Business School.
He completed his PhD on 'the idea of the human person in J. H. Newman ' at University College Dublin.
He is also the translator of
Newman's Idea of a University in Italian.
Title of Dr. Bottone's Lecture: Newman and Translation
Wednesday July 23rd 10 am St. Paul's
Ciaran teaches English Literature and children with learning difficulties at a large Post Primary school in Bessbrook Northern Ireland.
He studied at the Open University and became interested in Hopkins during that period. He completed his disertation on Hopkins and became facsinated with both the man and his poetry.
He has been at Monasterevin once before but bad health has prevented my return but I look forward to returning this year.
Title of Dr. Kerrigan's lecture: Hopkins and Irish Poets
Wednesday 23rd July at 11.15 am
Joseph Feeney Sj St. Joseph's Philadelphia
Fr. Joseph Feeney, SJ, professor of English at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, is coeditor of The Hopkins Quarterly.
Title of Fr. Feeney's Lecture: Magic Metphor Maker (now in the Archive)
Thursday July 24th 10 am St Paul's
Peter Milward SJ, Uk and Japan
Fr. Peter Milward was born in London and came to Japan in 1954 where he has been teaching in Sophia University. Specializing in Shakespearian drama, he published his first book. An Introduction to Shakespeare's Plays (1964), followed by Christian Themes in English Literature (1967). Also published Shakespeare's Religious Background (1973); and two volumes of Religious Controversies of the Elizabethan Age and the Jacobean Age (1977 and 1978).
Besides being vice-chairman of the Renaissance Institute of Sophia University, he is editor of " Renaissance Monographs " and of the Japanese Renaissance Sosho ; and was first director of the new library of Sophia University. He has also published books on G.M. Hopkins and is a prominent member of the Tokyo Branch of the Hopkins Society of Japan .
Sakiko graduated from Tsuda College in Tokyo and has spend a life-time teaching, studying and enjoying the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins. She has published many papers on Hopkins bringing the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins to an ever wider Japanese audience.
In 1973 Joined in The Western Branch of G.M.Hopkins Society.
In 1972 she delivered a Paper entitled "The interpretation of 'The Windhover'" at the 44th Japan English Literature Association.
1980 Started working as the adjunct teacher at three universities
including the National University of Mie .
1998 Sakiko delivered a paper on "Sashiko Stitch Pattern in Japan" at 11th International Hopkins Summer School at Monasterevin.
This was followed in 1999 a comparative study of 'Hopkins and Parmenides" at 12th International Hopkins Summer School and in 2000 with a paper entitled "Being and Burl in Hopkins" at 13th. International Hopkins Summer School .
2001 Read "'The Wreck of the Deutschland' in Reference to The Devotional
Writing" at the 14th.
2004 Read "A Theological Reading of 'As kingfishers catch fire'" at 17th.
2006 Read "'The Windhover' and a reality in meditation' at 19th.
Sakiko translated Chapters 1 - 8 of The Devotional Writings of G.M.Hopkins
in Gendai to Bunnka published by Nihon Hukushi University .
Sakiko Takagi will deliver a Lecture on Hopkins and Kenji on Thursday 24th July at 15.00 hours
Dr hab. Aleksandra Kedzierska
Institute of English
Maria Sklodowska-Curie, University in Lublin, Poland
Publications: On the Wings of Faith: A Study of the Man-God Relationship in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Main fields of interest: British poetry of the Great War; poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins; 20 th Century Irish poetry and drama; Children's Literature
Associate Professor, Tenri University, Nara, Japan
Miho received her Doctorate from Kansai University in Osaka
and has studied the poetry of Hopkins in Berminghan University (UK).
She has lectured on many aspects of Hopkins's creativity.
In 2008, Dr. Takahashi will deliver a lecture on: On Nature on Thursday 24 th July at 3.30 approx.
Brian Arkins
Dr. Arkins is Professor of Classics at NUI Galway and has been a regular participant in the GM Hopkins Festival, contributing lectures on a wide range of aspects of Hopkins's poetry
Title of his Lecture: Hopkins's Style
Time and Date: Monday July 21st at 3.30 pm (approx.)
Portia Weston
Dr. Portia K. Weston, Honors Director, Point Park University, Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Title of Dr. Weston's Lecture: Hopkins and Emerson
Time and Date: Monday 21st July 3.30 pm. approx.
Donncha O'Dualaing
A Graduate from University College Cork, Donncaha, completing his MA Thesis on the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins. A much-loved broadcaster and lover of verse, he is a real believer in Hopkins's " The dearest freshest deep down things". Because of his passion for funding charities through long walks, Taoiseach Charles Haughey once described him as 'Ireland's greatest walker'.
He is the presenter of the very popular weekly programme Failte Isteach on RTE
Title of O'Dulaing's Lecture: My Hopkins
Time and Date: Monday21st July at 10.30 am approx.
John Kerrigan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair , Rockhurst Univ. Kansas, USA
Among Kerrigan's publications are:
"Swimming in Words: Molly Sweeney's Dramatic Form," A COMPANION TO BRIAN FRIEL , eds. R. C. Evans and Richard Harp (Locust Hill Press, 2002).
With J.J. Wylie, "An Interview with Seamus Heaney," NUA: STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY IRISH WRITING (1998/1999).
"O'Connor's 'Backward Look': The Irish Writer's Struggle for Identity and an Irish Tradition," book chapter in FRANK O'CONNOR: NEW PERSPECTIVES (1998).
"An Annotated Bibliography of Works By and About Frank O'Connor," in FRANK O'CONNOR: NEW PERSPECTIVES (1998).
Title of John Kerrigan's Lecture: Hopkins and Irish Poets
Time and Date of Lecture: 11.45 am Wednesday 23rd July
