Comparative Literature in Ireland and Worldwide. An Interview with Professor Declan Kiberd

• Autores: Yulia Pushkarevskaya-Naughton
• Localización: Estudios irlandeses = Journal of Irish Studies, ISSN-e 1699-311X, Nº. 5, 2010, págs. 129-142
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen
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    El profesor Declan Kiberd es desde hace años catedrático de literatura angloirlandesa y teatro en University College Dublin, y antes había enseñado en las universidades de Kent en Canterbury y Trinity College Dublin. Es uno de los directores del Abbey Theatre. Ha sido Parnell Fellow de Magdalene College Cambridge, y profesor visitante en Duke University y la Sorbona. Asimismo ha sido director de la Yeats International Summer School (1985-7), socio numerario de la Dublin Shaw Society (1995-2000), columnista del Irish Times (1985-7) y The Irish Press (1987-93), presentador del programa de arte Exhibit A (RTÉ 1984-6) y ensayista y crítico habitual del Irish Times, TLS, London Review of Books y The New York Times. Es autor de numerosos libros desde el influyente Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation (1995) a Irish Classics (2000), The Irish Writer and the World (2005), y el reciente Ulysses and Us. Fue también editor de Annotated Students Ulysses (Penguin 1992). Es una de las voces más destacadas en el campo de los Estudios Irlandeses. Es además una prominente figura pública, y continua ejerciendo su influyente magisterio con nuevas generaciones de estudiantes. En esta entrevista, conversamos en torno a la relevancia del enfoque comparativo en los Estudios Irlandeses y el futuro de la literatura comparada en Irlanda y en el mundo.

  • English

    Professor Declan Kiberd is Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at University College Dublin, where he has taught for many years after having taught at the University of Kent at Canterbury and Trinity College Dublin. He is a director of the Abbey Theatre. He has been Parnell Fellow at Magdalene College Cambridge, and a visiting professor at Duke University and the Sorbonne. He has also been Director of the Yeats International Summer School (1985-7), Patron of the Dublin Shaw Society (1995-2000), a columnist with The Irish Times (1985-7) and The Irish Press (1987-93), the presenter of the RTÉ Arts programme, Exhibit A (1984-6), and a regular essayist and reviewer in The Irish Times, TLS, London Review of Books and The New York Times. Professor Kiberd is the author of many books including his seminal Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation (1995), Irish Classics (2000), and The Irish Writer and the World (2005), as well as Ulysses and Us, published just this year, and he was also the editor of the Penguin edition of the Annotated Students Ulysses (1992). He is one of the most important voices in Irish Studies. Beyond that, he is also a prominent public intellectual, and he continues to be an inspirational figure for generations of students. In this interview, we discussed the relevance of the comparative approach to Irish Studies and the future of Comparative Literature in Ireland and worldwide.