Beginning in 2014, the IAAS Lecture is an annual event, hosted at a third level institution on the island of Ireland, and presented by an invited member of the IAAS on a topic of their choosing. In 2015, the lecture was renamed the W. A. Emmerson Lecture, in honour of our much-loved late Treasurer. Broad in its remit, the IAAS Lecture appeals to both academic and non-academic communities, and promotes the long-standing interest in and connection to American culture in Ireland.
We are delighted to announce that the esteemed Dr Jack Fennell will be delivering our 2025 W. A. Emmerson lecture in person, in the Kemmy Business School of the University of Limerick.
A consideration of what happens when a monster expands beyond its ‘home territory,’ this talk will focus on that most malleable of gothic/horror icons, the vampire, and explore some of the interesting ways that it has been adapted to Native American narratives.
About the speaker:
Jack Fennell is a writer and researcher who teaches at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He is the editor of three fiction anthologies, A Brilliant Void (2018), It Rose Up (2021), and Your Own Dark Shadow (2024) collecting lesser-known Irish science fiction, fantasy and horror stories respectively. He is the author of the academic studies Irish Science Fiction (2014) and Rough Beasts: The Monstrous in Irish Fiction, 1800-2000 (2019), and was a contributing translator to The Short Fiction of Flann O’Brien (2013).
For information on the 2014 lecture, delivered by Dr Ron Callan, click here.
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