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Seminário Leitura de Poemas "Tam Lin", (Child Ballad #39) tells the story of how the resourceful Janet saves her lover from enchantment and imprisonment by the Queen of the Faeries. It combines elements found in many folkloric traditions: a brave and spirited heroine, the giving and receipt of gifts, virginity and illegimate pregnancy, fairy enchantment, Protean metamorphosis. It has attracted an inordinate number of modern retellings and versions, most of which are made by women writers, and many of which overlap with popular forms such as the fantasy novel and comic book. In this paper I explore three of these versions, Blood and Iron, by Elizabeth Bear, Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones, and "Tam Lin: a Closet Drama" by Elaine Lee, in each case asking what this ballad, with its deeply patriarchal subtext, has to offer writers who identify themselves as feminists.
Education and Employment 1996-1999 - Cambridge University, B.A. (Hons), English. 1999-2003 - Trinity College, University of Dublin, PhD entitled Allegorical Making: Austin Clarke, Louis MacNeice, Thomas Kinsella. 2004 - Temporary Lecturer in Irish and Modern Literature, University of Manchester. 2004-2005 - Teaching Fellow, University College Dublin. 2005-2006 - Postdoctoral Fellow, Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. During this period I was based in the School of English and Drama at University College Dublin, working on the poetry of Austin Clarke. 2006-present - Lecturer in English, Mater Dei Institute of Education (Dublin City University) Research, publications and related activities Most of my research has been in the field of Irish poetry, with subsidiary interests in British and American poetry. My book Austin Clarke: Holy Rage of Argument is forthcoming next year in the Aberdeen Introductions series, published by the Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies at Aberdeen University. I have published articles on a wide range of Irish and American poetry in peer-reviewed journals and books, and also write non-academic literary criticism and reviews for poetry journals. With my colleague Michael Hinds I edit POST, the web-journal of the Irish Centre for Poetry Studies at Mater Dei. My poetry has appeared in a number of British and Irish magazines. I am co-organiser of Wurm im Apfel, a series of poetry events and collaborations with the visual arts based at the Monster Truck Gallery in Dublin. http://www.wurmimapfel.com |