Dublin James Joyce Summer School
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Each morning two lectures take place in Newman House. Each afternoon several series of seminars are held in Newman House and Boston College. All lectures and a choice of seminar are included in student enrollment. Members of the public may attend the morning lectures by purchasing a day-pass for 20 Euro. Seminars are reserved for enrolled students only. See the daily Academic Schedule for details. |
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Bruce Bradley like James Joyce was a pupil of Belvedere College and is a graduate of University College Dublin. He has an MA in Classics from UCD and a PhD in Divinity from Cambridge University. He is the author of James Joyce's Schooldays (1982). He has published numerous essays on the history of Jesuit education in Ireland and on Joyce's schooling and is the author of the entry on Joyce in the recently published Dictionary of Irish Biography. He was headmaster of Joyce's two Jesuit schools, Belvedere (1984-92) and Clongowes (1992-2000). Vincent Cheng is the Shirley Sutton Thomas Professor of English at the University of Utah. He is author of Inauthentic: The Anxiety over Culture and Identity (2004), Joyce, Race and Empire (1995), Shakespeare and Joyce: A Study of “Finnegans Wake” (1984), “Le Cid”: A Translation in Rhymed Couplets (1987), and as (co-editor), Joyce in Context (1992) and Joycean Cultures (1998). Currently, he is working on a study of amnesia and forgetting in modern literature. John Coyle lectures in the Department of English, Glasgow University, where he is currently Head of Department. His main interests lie in the field of modernist and postmodernist literature from an international perspective. He has published articles on F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alain-Fournier, Proust, and Joyce and has edited two introductory studies on Joyce. He is currently working on the relations between literary modernism and advertising, and on recent American fiction. Luca Crispi is a lecturer in the School of English, Drama, and Film, University College Dublin and in the UCD James Joyce Research Centre. He is Associate Director of the Dublin James Joyce Summer School, on the board of the International James Joyce Foundation, and co-editor with Anne Fogarty of the Dublin James Joyce Journal (2008-2009). He is co-editor with Catherine Fahy of The Joyce Studies 2004 Series (2004–2005) and with Sam Slote of How Joyce Wrote “Finnegans Wake”: A Chapter-by-Chapter Genetic Guide (2007). He was co-curator of the exhibitions, “James Joyce and Ulysses at the National Library of Ireland” (2004–2006) and “Yeats: The Life and Work of W.B. Yeats” (2006–2009). He is currently completing a catalogue of Joyce Collection at the University at Buffalo, which is available online: http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/main/units/pl/joyce/catalog/. Vincent Deane is an independent researcher and Dublin Joycean. He was editor of the “Finnegans Wake” Circular and is co-editor of the “Finnegans Wake” Notebooks at Buffalo. For the National Library of Ireland's 2004 Joyce exhibition, he contributed the “Sirens” installation, an interactive study of music in Ulysses. Vincent Deane is a world-renowned expert on the printed sources from which Joyce drew creative inspiration. Anne Fogarty is Professor of James Joyce Studies at University College Dublin and Director of the UCD James Joyce Research Centre. She is the President of the International James Joyce Foundation. She was editor of the Irish University Review 2002-2009 and with Luca Crispi is co-editor of the Dublin James Joyce Journal, founded in 2008. With Timothy Martin she co-edited Joyce on the Threshold (2005) and with Morris Beja she co-edited, Bloomsday100: Essays on “Ulysses” (2009). She has edited Special Issues of the Irish University Review on Spenser in Ireland 1596-1996, 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 the poetry of Eavan Boland and a monograph on the political 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, the first Irish sonnet sequence, for The Literature of Early Modern Ireland, Series Editor, Andrew Carpenter (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. Damien Keane is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he was the Academic Programme Co-ordinator for the 2009 North American James Joyce Conference. He was educated at Vassar College, Queen's University, Belfast, and the University of Pennsylvania. Focusing on the sociological and literary intersections between the printed page and reproduced sound, he is at work on a manuscript entitled “Ireland and the Problem of Information.” Vicki Mahaffey is Kirkpatrick Professor of English and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions (2007), States of Desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce and the Irish Experiment (1998), and Reauthorizing Joyce (1995). She is currently writing a study entitled The Joyce of Everyday Life and editing a collaborative collection of essays on Dubliners. Joseph Nugent is Assistant Professor, Department of English, Boston College. He received his BA and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. His teaching and research engage with Ireland about the turn of the twentieth century. He convenes a Finnegans Wake reading group at Boston College where he also teaches courses on the Irish language, memoir and biography, and Irish modernism. He is currently writing a book on representations of clergy in the Irish fin-de-siècle. Rita Sakr teaches at the University of Sherbrooke, Canada. She recently completed her PhD at the University of Nottingham on the subject of monumental space in the novels of James Joyce, Rashid al-Daif, and Orhan Pamuk and is currently writing a monograph based on her doctoral research. Her recent and forthcoming publications include work on Joyce and Zola and Joyce and al-Daif in addition to articles on Middle-Eastern Studies (especially Pamuk) and migrant literature in Quebec. With Finn Fordham, she is co-editor of a forthcoming volume of European Joyce Studies, entitled Joyce and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel. With Caroline Rooney, she is co-editing a collection of essays on The Siege of Beirut and the Ethics of Representation in Literature, Journalism, and Art. Fritz Senn is founder and Director of the Zürich James Joyce Foundation and has played a key role in shaping Joyce Studies. He 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 (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. Amanda Sigler is a doctoral candidate at the University of Virginia, where she is completing a dissertation on international modernism and periodicals directed by Michael Levenson. She has interned with the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, D.C., and with the James Joyce Quarterly in Tulsa, where she also researched the papers of Joyce's biographer Richard Ellmann under the direction of Sean Latham. She has received fellowships to study at the Zurich James Joyce Foundation and other archives. Her work has appeared in the James Joyce Quarterly, Papers on Joyce, and the Henry James Review. David Spurr is Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Geneva. He is the author of Joyce and the Scene of Modernity (2002), The Rhetoric of Empire (1993), and Conflicts of Consciousness (1984) on T.S. Eliot, as well as an edited volume, The Space of English (2005). His essays on Joyce have appeared in the James Joyce Quarterly, European Joyce Studies, the James Joyce Broadsheet, MLN, and PMLA, as well as in the volume edited by Morris Beja and Anne Fogarty, Bloomsday 100: Essays on “Ulysses” (2009). He is also a member of the board of the Zurich James Joyce Foundation. He has published widely on modern English and French literature and on literary theory, and has most recently completed a book entitled Architecture and Modern Literature. |
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WEEK-LONG SEMINARS: Each afternoon a selection of 5-day seminars are held. Topics and instructor details are below; please choose one seminar to attend all week: Dubliners Peter van de Kamp is a lecturer at the Institute of Technology, Tralee. He has published sixteen books, most recently the four-volume anthology, Irish Literature: The Eighteenth Century and Irish Literature: The Nineteenth Century (co-edited with A. Norman Jeffares). In Train, a new collection of his poetry, was published in 2008. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Christine O'Neill studied English and German at the University of Züurich and Trinity College Dublin. Her publications include Too Fine a Point: A Stylistic Analysis of the Eumaeus Episode in James Joyce's “Ulysses” (1996); Inductive Scrutinies: Focus on Joyce, a collection of essays by Fritz Senn (1995); and The Joycean Murmoirs of Fritz Senn (2007). She is active as a researcher and editor and now works for the Arts Council. Ulysses Tom Halpin is a graduate of University College Dubin. He has taught in the Department of English, St Patrick's College, Drumcondra ( a college of Dublin City University) since 1980. He has chaired the seminars on Ulysses at the Dublin James Joyce Summer School since 1991. Apart from the writings of James Joyce, his main areas of interest are modern Irish poetry (in particular the work of Thomas Kinsella) and modern American fiction. Ulysses Fritz Senn is founder and Director of the Zürich James Joyce Foundation and has played a key role in shaping Joyce Studies. He 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 (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. Finnegans Wake Terence Killeen is the author of “Ulysses” Unbound: A Reader's Companion to James Joyce's “Ulysses” (2004). A trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation, he has contributed to many International Joyce symposia, and has frequently lectured and conducted seminars at both the Dublin and Trieste Joyce Summer Schools. He has published in the Joyce Studies Annual, The James Joyce Literary Supplement, and other journals. He is a member of the board of directors of the James Joyce Centre, Dublin and was a journalist with The Irish Times.
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Social and Cultural Historical Documents with Anne Fogarty Genetic Approaches to Ulysses with Luca Crispi Editing the Finnegans Wake Notebooks with Vincent Deane
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