1. Skellig Foundation Environmental Humanities Project
The Monster Book
(Joyce, Modernism and the Environmental Humanities)
The Monster Book is an interactive, landscape based development of the Joyce Brain Atlas project --TCD
Glucksman Memorial Symposium Poster, 2007:
http://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/10643
The Monster Book
Book 1. The Haunted Hamlet .
The tale of the Haunted Hamlet, first section of the introductory talk on this Environmental
Humanities/Digital Dindshenchas project, is now online at Skellig Sessions on Livestream. com.
Funded by the Foundation Des Treilles in France, the project aims to develop an interactive version of
Finnegans Wake as a continuation of the Seanchas entitled The Monster Book. Part oral storytelling, part
digital book, part environmental landscape trail and peace trail, the "book" will be developed as a tale of
twelve pilgrims, collectively a spook, journeying through the landscape of Munster in search of its
body. The tale of the Haunted Hamlet, the first section of this story, was delivered at the RIA Skellig
Sessions on Nov. 20th 2014. ( Skellig Sessions on Livestream. Com). Part two of this talk will be uploaded
shortly. Filmmakers, artists and scholars interested in collaborating with me as volunteers in developing
the Monster Book and its 12 Pilgrims' Tales both as online talks, films and stories based in the landscape,
and Aps to be used at site specific locations on the "Monster Trail," are invited to contact me at the Skellig
Foundation. We have a tale to tell, a continuing narration.
Theresa O’Connor (BA, MA, PhD) has over 20 years experience as a lecturer on Joyce, Beckett , Critical
Theory, Post Colonial Literature and Irish Studies in the United States and Ireland. She has a range of
interdisciplinary research and teaching interests, including literature, neuroscience, art, and cultural
theory. She has published on Joyce, Klee, Benjamin, nationalism, and comedy, and has delivered papers
and chaired panels at numerous international conferences. She has been a visiting research fellow in Art
and Technology at Trinity College, Dublin where she worked on developing "Placebook," a computer
based storytelling game, and the "Joyce Brain Atlas": an exploration via technology and neuroscience of
the links between Joyce’s model of language and his concept of identity and place as interspace. The Book
of Kells served as a visual frame for this project. http://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/10643