Danielle Gilman presented her paper “Elizabeth Bowen’s Mid-Century Travel Writing” on a panel discussing connections between the fiction and non-fiction writing of the Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen. 

Shinjini Chattopadhyay presented her paper “Multiculturalism and Celtic Tiger Ireland in Chris Binchy’s Open-Handed” on the panel “New Cultures of Irish Literature.”

In the paper, Chattopadhyay examines the multiculturalism of Celtic Tiger Ireland (mid-1990s to the late 2000s) in Chris Binchy’s 2008 novel Open-Handed and illustrates how immigrants in Ireland occasionally face hostility from certain Irish citizens while other Irish nationals welcome the cultural diversity.

Chattopadhyay also participated in a roundtable discussion titled “Pasts, Presents, and Podcasting in Irish Studies” alongside fellow Marion L. Brittain Fellow Eric Lewis. The discussion focused on podcasting as a new way for communicating academic content to the public during the pandemic and beyond.