Joseph Brooker teaches modern literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of Joyce's Critics: Transitions in Reading and Culture (Wisconsin University Press, 2004), Flann O'Brien (Northcote House, 2005), and Literature of the the 1980s: After the Watershed (Edinburgh University Press, 2010). He has co-edited special issues of New Formations on the 1990s and the Journal of Law and Society on law and literature. He is co-editing a special issue of Textual Practice on Martin Amis's novel, Money. In June 2011, he is co-organizing a two-day symposium in London on Joycean literature, featuring lectures from Michael Wood and Derek Attridge. See: http://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/2011/Joyce/index.htm
Tim Conley is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Brock University, Canada. He is editor of Joyce's Disciples Disciplined (University College Dublin Press, 2010) and author of Joyce's Mistakes: Problems of Intention, Irony and Interpretation (University of Toronto Press, 2003) and a collection of short fiction, Whatever Happens (Insomniac Press, 2006). With Stephen Cain, he is co-author of The Encyclopedia of Fictional and Fantastic Literatures (Greenwood, 2006). He has published essays in Comparative Literature, James Joyce Quarterly, Modernism/Modernity, Studies in the Novel, Papers on Language and Literature, and Soundings.
Luca Crispi is a lecturer in the UCD School of English, Drama and Film and the UCD James Joyce Research Centre. He is Associate Director of the Dublin James Joyce Summer School, a Trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation, and co-editor with Anne Fogarty of the Dublin James Joyce Journal (2008-present). He is co-editor with Catherine Fahy of The Joyce Studies 2004 Series (2004-5) and with Sam Slote of How Joyce Wrote 'Finnegans Wake': A Chapter-by-Chapter Genetic Guide (University of Wisconsin Press, 2007). He was co-curator of the exhibitions, James Joyce and Ulysses at the National Library of Ireland (2004-6) and Yeats: The Life of W.B. Yeats (2006-9). He is currently working on Becoming the Blooms: Joyce's Art of Storytelling in 'Ulysses', a monograph that explores issues of character and narrative from a genetic perspective. His catalogue of the Joyce collection at the University of Buffalo is available at: http://library.buffalo.edu/pl/collections/jamesjoyce/catalog/
Maud Ellmann is Randy L. And Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English at the University of Chicago. Her research and teaching interests focus on British and European modernism and critical theory, particularly psychoanlaysis and feminism. She is the author of The Poetics of Impersonality: T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound (Harvard, 1987), The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing and Imprisonment (Harvard, 1993), Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page (Edinburgh, 2003), and The Nets of Modernism: Henry James, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and Sigmund Freud (Cambridge, 2010). She is editor of Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism (Longman, 1994). She composed the chapter on Irish fiction between 1914 and 1940 for The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume 4 (Oxford University Press, 2011) and is currently writing an essay on “Irish Animals”.
Catherine Flynn received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University in 2009 and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. She is completing a monograph that reads Ulysses alongside Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project in contexts that range from nineteenth-century realist fiction to twentieth-century surrealist creations. Her article, “'Circe' and Surrealism: Joyce and the Avant-Garde” recently appeared in Journal of Modern Literature. An essay on Ulysses, “A Brechtian Epic on Eccles Street: Matter, Meaning, and History in 'Ithaca'”, is forthcoming in Éire-Ireland.
Anne Fogarty is Professor of James Joyce Studies at University College Dublin, Director of the UCD James Joyce Research Centre, and Head of the School of English, Drama and Film. She is President of the International James Joyce Foundation. She was editor of Irish University Review 2002-2009 and with Luca Crispi is founder and editor of the Dublin James Joyce Journal. With Timothy Martin, she is co-editor of Joyce on the Threshold (University of Florida Press, 1995) and with Morris Beja of Bloomsday 100: Essays on 'Ulysses' (University of Florida Press, 2009). She has edited special issues of the Irish University Review on Spenser in Ireland, 1596-1986, Lady Gregory, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, and (with Derek Hand) Benedict Kiely. She has published widely on gender and genre in contemporary Irish fiction and poetry. She is currently completing a study of Eavan Boland and a monograph on the political, cultural, and socio-historical contexts of Ulysses entitled, James Joyce and Cultural Memory: Reading History in 'Ulysses'. With Angelina Lynch, she has co-edited Richard Nugent's Cynthia, an Irish Renaissance sonnet sequence (Four Courts Press, 2010). In November 2008, she was presented with the first Charles E. Fanning Award for excellence in Irish Studies by Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
Andrew Gibson is Professor of Modern Literature and Theory, Royal Holloway, University of London. His research interests centre on twentieth-century literature often in theoretical, philosophical, or narratological contexts and on twentieth-century philosophy. He was recently elected to the Conseil Scientifique of the Collège International de Philosophie at the Université de Paris. In 2008, he was Carole and Gordon Segal Professor of Irish Literature at Northwestern University in Evanston, Chicago. He is Associate Member of the Beckett International Foundation of the University of Reading and a member of the editorial board of the new Anglo-French journal in Beckett scholarship, Limit(e) Beckett. He is the author of the widely acclaimed Joyce’s Revenge: History, Politics and Aesthetics in ‘Ulysses’ (Oxford University Press, 2002), Joyce: A Critical Life (Reaktion Books, 2006), Beckett and Badiou: The Pathos of Intermittency (Oxford University Press, 2006), Samuel Beckett; A Critical Life (Reaktion Books, 2010). Forthcoming publications include Intermittency: The Concept of Historical Reason in Recent French Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2011) and The Strong Spirit: History, Politics and Aesthetics in the Writings of James Joyce 1898-1915 (Oxford University Press, 2012).
Joseph M. Hassett is a Washington-based lawyer with the firm of Hogan Lovells. He holds a law degree from Harvard University and an MA and PhD in Anglo-Irish literature from University College Dublin. He has lectured on Irish writers at such venues as the Yeats Summer School in Sligo, the Trieste James Joyce Summer School, the Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco, and Oxford University. He is the author of W.B. Yeats and the Poetics of Hate (Gill and Macmillan, 1986) and W.B. Yeats and the Muses (Oxford University Press, 2010).
Barry McCrea is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Yale University. He is the author of a novel, The First Verse (Brandon, 2008), and of the forthcoming In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust (Columbia University Press, June 2011). He is currently working on a study of the role of minor languages in the twentieth-century European literary imagination.
Christine O’Neill studied English and German at the University of Zurich and Trinity College Dublin. Her publications include Too Fine a Point: A Stylistic Analysis of the ‘Eumaeus’ Episode in James Joyce's ‘Ulysses’ (Trier Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 1996), Inductive Scrutinies: Focus on Joyce, a collection of essays by Fritz Senn (Lilliput, 1995), and The Joycean Murmoirs of Fritz Senn (Lilliput, 2007). She is a Trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation. She has contributed to many international Joyce symposia and has conducted a seminar at the Dublin James Joyce Summer School on A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man since 1997. She is active as a researcher, editor, and translator and is currently working in the Education and Community Department at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin.
Fritz Senn is founder and Director of the Zürich James Joyce Foundation and Patron of the Dublin James Joyce Summer School. He has played a key role in shaping Joyce Studies and has written widely on all aspects of Joyce's work, especially on Joyce and translation and on Joyce's use of Classical literature. His publications include, Joyce's Dislocutions, edited by John Paul Riquelme (1984), Inductive Scrutinies: Focus on Joyce, edited by Christine O'Neill (Lilliput, 1995). A volume of interviews tracing his recollections of the global Joyce community, The Joycean Murmoirs, was published in 2007, edited by Christine O'Neill. A German edition of this work, Zerrinnerungen, also appeared in 2007.
Sam Slote is lecturer in English at Trinity College Dublin. He has co-edited three volumes on Joyce: Probes: Genetic Studies in Joyce (1995); Genitricksling Joyce (1999), and How Joyce Wrote ‘Finnegans Wake’: A Chapter-by-Chapter Genetic Guide (University of Wisconsin Press, 2007). A fourth edited volume, Derrida and Joyce: On Totality and Equivocation, will be published shortly. He has recently completed a book on Joyce and Nietzsche, which is provisionally entitled Joyce’s Nietzschean Ethics. Since 1999, he has been one of five Contributing Editors for the ongoing ‘Finnegans Wake’ Notebooks at Buffalo series. He was one of three academic co-ordinators for the 2008 International James Joyce Symposium at the Université François-Rabelais in Tours, France. With Anne Fogarty and Luca Crispi, he is co-organizer of the 2012 International James Joyce Symposium, which will be hosted by both TCD and UCD. He is a Trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation and Director of the Samuel Beckett Summer School which first meets in Trinity College Dublin, 10-16 July 2011. He is advisory editor on the committee for the following journals: Dublin James Joyce Journal; English Text Construction; Genetic Joyce Studies. He is the Joyce editor for Year’s Work in English Studies. |
