Dr Caroline Magennis | Acts of Casual Intimacy: Critical Bodies and Bodies of Criticism in recent Northern Irish Fiction

The Centre for Irish Studies is pleased to invite you to a guest lecture by Dr Caroline Magennis on “Acts of Casual Intimacy: Critical Bodies and Bodies of Criticism in Recent Northern Irish Fiction”.

The lecture will take place on 13 October 2022 at 14:10 in Room 001 (main building of the Faculty of Arts).

Dr Caroline Magennis is Reader in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature at the University of Salford, Manchester, UK. Dr Magennis has written widely on Northern Irish culture and literature. Her books include Sons of Ulster: Masculinities in the Contemporary Northern Irish Novel (2010) and Northern Irish Writing After the Troubles: Intimacies, Affects, Pleasures (2021). She is the Chairperson of the British Association of Irish Studies and a board member of EFACIS and the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies.