Lucy McDiarmid Participates as Panelist at the Women’s History Association of Ireland’s Conference

Lucy McDiarmid, the Marie Frazee-Baldassarre Professor of English, is participating in the panel “Women on the Margins: Contemporary Issues, Historical Debates” and will be speaking on “Women’s Maladies in Fairy Legends Collected by Lady Gregory.” More information on this year’s conference can be found on the WHAI website.

McDiarmid’s research focuses on writing by Yeats, Lady Gregory, Maeve Brennan, T. S. Eliot, Auden, and Stevie Smith, among others. Her current project is a book on 21st century Irish poetry.