LECTURES & SEMINARS

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.

 
LECTURERS

Anne Marie D’Arcy lectures in the School of English, University of Leicester.  She is co-director of the Medieval Research Centre, University of Leicester, and Visiting Research Fellow in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin.  Her research interests lie in the areas of Medieval and Renaissance literature with particular emphasis on iconology, political theology, the Celtic and patristic sources of Old and Middle English, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century medievalism especially in James Joyce.  She has published a number of articles on Old French romance, Middle English poetry and prose, Renaissance prose, and Joyce.  She is the author of Wisdom and the Grail: The Image of the Vessel in the Queste del Saint Graal and Malory’s Tale of the Sankgreal (2000) and the co-editor of Text and Gloss: Studies in Insular Language and Literature (1999), and Studies in Late Medieveal and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood (2005).  She is currently completing two monographs, The Artifice of Eternity: Mariology in the English Poetic Tradition (Oxford, 2013), and Joyce’s Saints and Sages: The Involution of the Insular Imagination, which not only engages with the insular and early medieval sources of Finnegans Wake, but also considers Ulysses and Joyce’s earlier writings.

Kevin J.H. Dettmar is W.M. Keck Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Pomona College.  He has also taught at Loyola Marymount University, Clemson University, Columbia University, and Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. A scholar of literary modernism by vocation, he has published on twentieth-century and contemporary British and Irish fiction.  His first book, The Illicit Joyce of Postmodernism: Reading Against the Grain was published in 1996.  He has edited three volumes on modernism: Rereading the New: A Backward Glance at Modernism (1994); Marketing Modernisms: Self-Promotion, Canonization, and Rereading (1996 with Stephen Watt); and A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture (2006: with David Blackshaw).  He currently serves as General Editor for the Longman Anthology of British Literature, and as series editor, with Mark Wollaeger, of the Oxford University Press series Modernist Literature and Culture.  He is past-president of the Modernist Studies Association and Midwest Modern Language Association.  With William S. Brockman and Robert Spoo, he is now at work compiling a 3-volume edition of the nearly 2,000 unpublished letters of James Joyce for Oxford University Press.
While a literary scholar by training, Dettmar has become a popular music critic by avocation. In 1999, he edited Reading Rock & Roll: Authenticity, Appropriation, Aesthetics with William Richey.  Is Rock Dead? followed in 2006; most recently he edited the Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan (2009).  He has been a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, US Branch (IASPM-US), and served a term as the Editor-in-Chief of the Association’s Journal of Popular Music Studies.  His next book, a volume in the Continuum/Bloomsbury series 33⅓, is on Gang of Four’s 1979 debut album, Entertainment.

Katherine Ebury holds a PhD in English from the University of York and is currently lecturer in Modern Literature at the University of Sheffield.  Her PhD looked at Einsteinian cosmology in the works of Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett. In 2012 she co-organised an international conference on Joyce’s non-fiction writings.  Her reviews and articles have appeared in Joyce Studies Annual, Journal of Modern Literature, Modernism/Modernity, James Joyce Literary Supplement, James Joyce Broadsheet and Journal of Literature and Science.

Anne Fogarty is Professor of James Joyce Studies at University College Dublin and Head of the UCD School of English, Drama and Film.  She was President of the International James Joyce Foundation from 2008-2012.  She has been Director of the Dublin James Joyce Summer School since 1997 and was Associate Director of the Yeats Summer School from 1995-1997. She has co-organized two International James Joyce Symposia in Dublin in 2004 (with Morris Beja) and in 2012 (with Sam Slote) and was academic organizer of the symposium in London in 2002 (with Timothy Martin).  She was editor of the Irish University Review 2002-2009 and is founder and co-editor with Luca Crispi of the Dublin James Joyce Journal.  She has edited special issues of the Irish University Review on Spenser and Ireland, Lady Gregory, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, and Benedict Kiely and has published widely on aspects of contemporary Irish fiction and poetry. 
She is co-editor with Timothy Martin of Joyce on the Threshold (University of Florida Press, 2005) with Morris Beja of Bloomsday100 (University of Florida Press, 2009), and with Fran O’Rourke, James Joyce: Multidisciplinary Approaches (forthcoming, UCD Press).  She has written an introduction to Richard Nugent's Cynthia, edited by Angelina Lynch, the first Irish Renaissance sonnet sequence (Four Courts Press, 2010).
She is currently completing a study of the historical and political dimensions of Ulysses, entitled James Joyce and Cultural Memory: Reading History in “Ulysses” and a monograph on the work of Eavan Boland.  Recently published essays include: an ecocritical analysis of the recent novels of Colum McCann and an exploration of the immigrant in the contemporary Irish short story and an account of Mary Lavin as a late modernist writer. 

Oona Frawley, originally from New York, is the author of Irish Pastoral (2005), as well as the editor of A New & Complex Sensation: Essays on Joyce’s Dubliners (2004), New Dubliners (2004), and Selected Essays of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (2005).  Her work in recent years has focused on cultural memory, resulting in a four-volume project with Syracuse University Press, Memory Ireland.  Volume One, Memory Ireland: History and Modernity, appeared in 2010, followed by Memory Ireland Volume 2: Diaspora and Memory Practices (2012).  Volume Three, Memory Ireland: Cruxes in Irish Cultural Memory: The Famine and the Troubles, and Volume 4, Memory Ireland: James Joyce and Cultural Memory, co-edited with Katherine O’Callaghan, will appear in Spring 2014.  Since 2008, Oona has lectured in Irish Studies and World Literature in the Department of English at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, following post-doctoral fellowships at Queen’s University Belfast and Trinity College Dublin.  She is completing Spenser’s Trace, a monograph on Spenser in Irish cultural memory, and has begun work on a new book on the global novel.

Teresa Prudente is a lecturer at the University of Turin.  She has authored a monograph on Woolf’s temporalities (A Specially Tender Piece of Eternity: Virginia Woolf and the Experience of Time, 2009) and a book on Woolf, Joyce and Science (To Saturate Every Atom: Letteratura e Scienza in Woolf e Joyce, 2012), as well as edited the collected volume, The Capricious Thread: Memory and the Modernist Text, 2011.  Her current research explores the foundation of the techniques of impersonality in Woolf and Joyce with particular reference to the two authors’ configuration of the notion of the void.

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. He recently published Noch mehr über Joyce: Streiflichter (2012).

David Vichnar is research assistant at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Charles University, Prague.  He is currently completing his co-tutelle PhD thesis (at Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris) on James Joyce and the Post-War Anglo-American and French literary avant-gardes. He works as an editor, publisher and translator.  His publications include Joyce Against Theory (2010), Hypermedia Joyce (co-edited, 2010), Thresholds: Essays on the International Prague Poetry Scene (edited, 2011), and most recently, Praharfeast: James Joyce in Prague (co-edited, 2012).  He co-edits the VLAK magazine, co-organises the annual Prague Poetry Microfestival, and manages Litteraria Pragensia Books and Equus Press.  His articles on contemporary experimental writers (Christine Brooke-Rose, Iain Sinclair, Steve McCaffery, the Oulipo group et al) as well as translations of contemporary poetry ‒ Czech, German, French and Anglophone ‒ have appeared in numerous journals and magazines.

Aida Yared is an independent Joyce scholar, originally from Lebanon.  She holds an MD from the American University of Beirut and now teaches pediatrics at Vanderbilt University. She is interested in the Arabian and Islamic aspects of Joyce’s works, including the literary sources that Joyce used in writing Finnegans Wake.  A further research focus is medicine and Joyce and she is currently working on the topic of child abuse in Joyce’s works.  Her publications include “In the Name of Annah: Islam & Salam in Joyce’s Finnegans Wake”, and “Eating and Digesting Lestrygonians” in the James Joyce Quarterly, and “Joyce’s Sources: Sir Richard Burton’s Terminal Essay in Finnegans Wake” in Joyce Studies Annual. Together with computer programmer Andrew Badr, she has created and curates the website JoyceImages.com that aims at illustrating (and annotating) the whole of Ulysses using period documents.

 
SEMINARS

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: