Dr. Julie Morrissy's National Endowment for the Humanities Lecture: "Breaking the Line": Poetry, Theatre and Adaptation in "Certain Individual Women": A Movement

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Location: Room 1050 Jenkins Nanovic Hall

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Dr. Julie Morrissy is an Irish poet, academic, critic, and activist. A National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the Keough-Naughton Institute for the 2021-2022 academic year, she is also the first Poet-in-Residence at the National Library of Ireland in the Decade of Centenaries programme.

In this event to cap her year at the Institute, Dr. Morrissy will share the process of adapting her poetry project"Certain Individual Women" for theatreDiscussion will follow by three panelists:

Jim Culleton, Artistic Director and CEO of Fishamble: The New Play Company

Adam Hanna, Lecturer in Irish Literature, University College Cork

Nicola Murphy, Director and Actress, Irish Repertory Theatre NYC

 

Read more about Dr. Morrissy at her National Endowment for the Humanities page.