The Catedra WB Yeats de Estudos Irlandeses at the University of São Paulo presents Bloomsday 2025 Friday, 13 June 2025 at 2-6pm.
2pm: Opening Ceremony
Consul General Mr. Robert Jackson, Vice Coordinator of the W.B. Yeats Chair of Irish Studies Professor Mariana Bolfarine
2.15pm: “The migrations of Eveline: James Joyce, Dubliners and periodicals”
Professor Elke D’hoker (University of Leuven)
Chair: Dr. Fábio Waki (USP)
3.10pm: Break
3.30pm: “Ana Livia Plurabelle e outras mulheres”
Professor Dirce Waltrick do Amarante (UFSC)
Chair: Professor Thiago Cass (USP)
4.10pm: Cultural activity
Professor Fran O’Rourke
Chair: Deputy Consul General Ms. Niamh Casey
UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO
W. B. YEATS CHAIR OF IRISH STUDIES
BLOOMSDAY AT USP 2025
June 13th
Website: catedrawbyeats.fflch.usp.br
Speaker Biographies
Elke D’hoker is Professor of English Literature. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary British and Irish fiction, especially the short story and women’s writing. Her work incorporates gender studies, genre theory, and periodicals studies. She is the author of:
- John Banville (Rodopi, 2004)
- Irish Women Writers and the Modern Short Story (Palgrave, 2016)
- Leerlingen en literatuur (Lannoo Campus, 2023)
She has also co-edited several collections, including:
- Narrative Unreliability (De Gruyter, 2008)
- Irish Women Writers (Lang, 2011)
- Mary Lavin (IAP, 2013)
- The Irish Short Story (Lang, 2015)
- Sarah Hall. Critical Perspectives (Gylphi, 2022)
- The Modern Short Story and the Magazines, 1880–1950 (EUP, 2022)
At KU Leuven, she directs the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies and the Centre for Literature and Education, and co-directs the MDRN research centre. She is vice-president of EFACIS and communications coordinator for ENSFR. She serves on editorial boards including Short Fiction in Theory and Practice, Journal for the Study of the Short Story in English, and RISE: Review of Irish Studies in Europe.
Dirce Waltrick Amarante is a writer, translator, and professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina and the University of Brasília. She teaches performing arts, literature, and translation, and publishes on translation, literary theory, theatre, and children’s/YA literature. She is:
- Co-editor of Qorpus magazine
- Co-leader of the Joycean Studies research group
- Member of the Samuel Beckett Research Center
She has organized Bloomsday in Florianópolis with Professors Sérgio Medeiros and Clélia Mello since 2002, and writes for national newspapers and magazines.
Fran O’Rourke is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin. He studied at Vienna, Köln, Louvain (LicPhil), and Leuven (PhD summa cum laude). He has held Fulbright and Onassis fellowships, and taught at Marquette University. His work focuses on classical metaphysics and he has published on:
- Plato, Aristotle, Neoplatonism, Aquinas, Heidegger
- Pseudo-Dionysius and the Metaphysics of Aquinas (University of Notre Dame Press, 2005)
- Allwisest Stagyrite: Joyce’s Quotations from Aristotle (National Library of Ireland, 2005)
- Aristotelian Interpretations (Irish Academic Press, 2016)
- Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas (University Press of Florida, 2022)
This last work earned high praise and was the basis for his second PhD (in Anglo-Irish Literature). In 2022, he received a DLitt from the National University of Ireland. He is preparing Aquinas and the Platonist Tradition for publication in 2025.