Elin Holmsten

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Senior Lecturer in English

ACADEMIC INTERESTS  

English and Irish literature

Contemporary poetry

Literary theory and philosophy

Hermeneutics and phenomenology

 

COURSES TAUGHT  

 

Literature in English

Themes in Popular Theory

Literature and Theory

Advanced Literary Theory

The Practice and Theory of Translation

Irish Poetry: From Yeats to McGuckian

The Irish Novel and Literary Theory

The Irish Short Story and Literary Theory

Ireland in Film and Drama

 

PUBLICATIONS

”Det norénska jagets différance: Natten är dagens mor i postmodern kontext,” Akka, Hösten 1999, 58-66.  

“'Those Deeply Carnal Moments': The Hermeneutics of Flesh in Medbh McGuckian's Poetry.” Nordic Irish Studies 2.1 (2003): 29-45.

"My Rhythm / Reverberates with the War." Rev. of Medbh McGuckian's The Soldiers of Year II. Cold Mountain Review 32.2 (Spring 2004): 63-66.

"Double Doors: An Interview with Medbh McGuckian." Nordic Irish Studies 3.1 (2004): 94-100.

"Shifting Boundaries: An Interview with Ann Fisher-Wirth." ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 12.1 (Winter 2005) 131-37.

“‘Like a Wished-For Body’: Dialogues of Desire in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian.” Forthcoming in The Body and Desire in Contemporary Irish Poetry, ed. Irene Gilsenan Nordin. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2006. 163-81.

 

The Hermeneutics of Otherness in Medbh McGuckian’s Poetry (doctoral dissertation), Forthcoming, Edwin Mellen Press, 2006.

 

EDITORIAL WORK

 

Editorial Assistant, Nordic Irish Studies 2.1 (2003)

 

Assistant Editor, Nordic Irish Studies 3.1 (2004)

 

Member of Editorial Board, Nordic Irish Studies

 

Liminal Borderlands: Ireland Past, Present, Future. Co-edited with Irene Gilsenan Nordin. Forthcoming, 2006.

PRESENTATIONS 

“The Abrahamic Journey in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian.” Paper presented to the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures Conference, Dublin, August, 2001. 

 “'How Spirit Lusts towards Us': Need and Desire in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian.” Paper presented to the Nordic Irish Studies Network Conference, University of Bergen, Norway, March, 2002. 

“Philosophies of the Other.” Presentation to the language departments at Dalarna University College, April, 2002.

"Dialoger med den Andre: Medbh McGuckians poesi" ("Dialogues with the Other: The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian.") Anna Paue's Symposium, Uppsala University, 13 December, 2002.

"The Hermeneutics of Otherness." Presentation at Academic Celebration, Dalarna University, 21 February, 2003.

"'Your Body, / That Naked Altar': Corporeality in Medbh McGuckian's Poetry." Paper presented to EFACIS, European Federation of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal, 13 December, 2003. 

"Bilden av den Andra" ("The Image of the Other"). Guest Lecture at Dept of Art Education, Dalarna University College, 4 February 2004.

"Liminality in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry." With Irene Gilsenan-Nordin and Loretta Qwarnström. Presentation at Dalarna University College Research Day, Borlänge, Sweden, 20 February 2004.

"Liminal Nomadism in the Poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Paula Meehan, and Medbh McGuckian." With Loretta Qwarnström. Paper presented to the Nordic Irish Studies Network Conference, Dalarna University College, 23 April 2004.

"'Words/That Overwhelm Me': Signs of Encounters in Medbh McGuckian's Poetry." Paper presented to the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures Conference, Galway, July, 2004.

“The Meeting / of Two Opennesses: The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian.” Paper presented to the Nordic Irish Network Symposium, Mid Sweden University, Härnösand, 2005.

 

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECT

Approaches to Literature in the New Millenium.

ADDRESS

Department of English

Dalarna University College

SE-791 88 Falun, Sweden

Tel: +46 23 77 8301

Fax: +46 23 77 8080

E-mail: ehm@du.se 

 

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