In Conversation with 2024 Irish Studies Heimbold Chair Emilie Pine

About this episode

The episode features a conversation about the writing process and the role of the reader with Emilie Pine and others.

The 1st episode of our 6th season features a conversation between Irish author and 2024 Heimbold Chair Emilie Pine, Villanova creative writing professor Adrienne Perry, Villanova student Charlotte Ralston and Center Director Joseph Lennon. They have a wide-ranging discussion about the writing process, flow and the role of the reader. - - - Emilie Pine is an award-winning Irish creative writer and scholar. Dr. Pine is professor of Modern Drama in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin. She has published widely as an academic and critic, including The Politics of Irish Memory: Performing Remembrance in Contemporary Irish Culture (Palgrave, 2011), and most recently The Memory Marketplace: Witnessing Pain in Contemporary Theatre (Indiana University Press, 2020). Dr. Pine served as editor of the Irish University Review from 2017 to 2021. Widely regarded as a leading scholar of Irish cultural memory, Dr. Pine led Industrial Memories, an Irish Research Council funded project to witness Ireland's historic institutional abuse. She continues to run the ongoing oral-history project Survivors Stories with the National Folklore Collection. As a writer, Dr. Pine…

People in this episode

Host: Adrienne Perry

Guest: Emilie Pine

Topics covered

• writing process
• Irish literature
• cultural memory
• the role of the reader
• creative writing

Keywords

• Emilie Pine
• Irish Studies
• writing process
• cultural memory
• creative writing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University College Dublin, Irish University Review, ANU Productions, Dead Centre Theatre Company

Books & works: The Politics of Irish Memory: Performing Remembrance in Contemporary Irish Culture, The Memory Marketplace: Witnessing Pain in Contemporary Theatre, Good Sex

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