Poetry, Translation and Oppression: Carmen Bugan and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

Recorded June 14, 2023. An in person in-conversation event with
Carmen Bugan and Prof Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (TCD) chaired by Prof
Michael Cronin (TCD) organised by the Trinity Centre for Resistance
Studies in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub. Poet,
memoirist and critic Carmen Bugan will be reading and in
conversation with poet and professor Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, School
of English TCD. The event will be chaired by Prof Michael Cronin,
School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies TCD. Carmen
Bugan is an award-winning writer based in Long Island, NY. She is
currently an Adjunct Professor at Stony Brook University, where she
teaches literature and creative writing. She was born in Romania
and has lived in England, Ireland, and France. Educated at the
University of Michigan and Balliol College, Oxford, where she took
a PhD in English Literature, she is the author of five collections
of poems, including Time Being (2022); an Orwell Prize-shortlisted
memoir, Burying the Typewriter: Childhood under the Eye of the
Secret Police (2012), which documents her experience growing up in
Romania where her father was a prominent critic of the Ceaușescu
regime; and a highly praised critical study, Seamus Heaney and East
European Poetry in Translation: Poetics of Exile (2013). Her book
of essays, Poetry and the Language of Oppression (OUP, 2022) was
named an “essential book for writers” by Poets and Writers. Her
work has been translated into several languages and appears in
publications such as PEN Atlas, Modern Poetry in Translation, the
TLS, Harvard Review, and PN Review. Learn more at:
https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/