The Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Centre for Irish Studies, invites you to a lecture “Brian Friel and Field Day” by Dr Marilynn Richtarik (Georgia State University).
Marilynn Richtarik is Associate Professor of English at Georgia State University and a leading expert on Northern Irish theatre and drama. She is the author of an acclaimed monograph on Field Day Theatre Company entitled Acting between the Lines (OUP, 1994); her critical biography Stewart Parker: A Life won the 2012 Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature from the American Conference for Irish Studies and the 2013 SAMLA Studies Book Award from the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, and was shortlisted for the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, instituted in memory of the British Ambassador to Ireland assassinated in 1976 and awarded to works that “promote and encourage peace and reconciliation in Ireland.”
The lecture has been kindly supported by the J. William Fulbright Commission.
All Welcome!
Event detail
- Event start
- 20. 4. 2017 9:10 - 10:45
- Venue
- Main building of the Faculty of Arts, nám. Jana Palacha 2, Prague (Room 1)
- Website
- https://www.facebook.com/events/359241084476926/
- Organizing Institution
- Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Centre for Irish Studies
- Event type
- Lecture
