Contributors

VALÉRIE BÉNÉJAM is Maître de Conférences in English literature at the University of Nantes. She is a regular participant at James Joyce International Symposiums and a trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation. She has written many articles about Joyce, and co-edited with John Bishop a collection of essays, Making Space in the Works of James Joyce (Routledge, 2011), on the issue of Joyce’s representations, across his work, of spatiality and space. She is currently working on a monograph about Joyce’s fiction and theatricality entitled Joyce’s Novel Theatre.

RICHARD BROWN is a reader in modern literature at the University of Leeds. He has published several articles on Joyce and contemporary British fiction, and four books on Joyce: James Joyce and Sexuality (Cambridge, 1985), James Joyce: A Postculturalist Perspective (Macmillan, 1992), Joyce, “Penelope” and the Body (Rodopi, 2006) and, most recently, the 450-page Companion To James Joyce (Blackwell, 2008).

VINCENT CHENG is the Shirley Sutton Thomas Professor of English at the University of Utah. His scholarship addresses the intersections of twentieth-century literature, Irish studies, postcolonial studies, race studies, and contemporary culture. His books include Inauthentic: The Anxiety Over Culture and Identity (Rutgers Univ. Press, 2004), Joyce, Race, and Empire (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995), Shakespeare and Joyce: A Study of Finnegans Wake (Penn State Univ. Press, 1984), “Le Cid”: A Translation in Rhymed Couplets (Univ. of Delaware Press, 1987), and (as editor) Joyce in Context (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992) and Joycean Cultures (Univ. of Delaware Press, 1999).

PAUL FAGAN is a lecturer at the University of Vienna. He is cofounder and president of the International Flann O’Brien Society and is co–general editor of the society journal The Parish Review. He is also co-editor of the essay collection Flann O’Brien: Contesting Legacies (Cork Univ. Press, 2014) with Ruben Borg and Werner Huber. Fagan has published in journals such as Joyce Studies in Italy and Partial Answers, and has forthcoming book chapters in collections with Rodopi, Cork University Press, and Manchester University Press.

DIETER FUCHS is associate professor of Anglophone literatures and cultural studies at the Anglo-German Department of the Technical University of Koszalin. His main research areas include Shakespeare and early modern studies, James Joyce and Irish studies, and literary and cultural theory. He has published many articles on Joyce, Shakespeare, and Renaissance culture, and the monograph Joyce und Menippos: A Portrait of the Artist as an Old Dog (Koenigshausen and Neumann, 2006).

JOHN MCCOURT is associate professor of English at the Università Roma Tre. He specializes in Joyce Studies and in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish literature. The cofounder of the Trieste Joyce School, he is widely published and best known for The Years of Bloom: Joyce in Trieste 1904–1920 (Univ. of Wisconsin Press/Lilliput Press, 2000). He has just completed Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland, which will be published by Oxford University Press in 2015.

LAURA PELASCHIAR is a lecturer in English literature at the University of Trieste. She is Director of the Trieste Joyce School and has written widely on Northern Irish literature and James Joyce. In 1998 she published her monograph Writing the North: The Contemporary Novel in Modern Ireland (Edizioni Parnaso) and in 2009 Ulisse Gotico (Pacini Editore). She is currently completing Gothic Joyce, a monograph that studies the Gothic in all of Joyce’s texts.

VIKE MARTINA PLOCK is a senior lecturer in English literature at the University of Exeter. She is the author of Joyce, Medicine, and Modernity (Univ. Press of Florida, 2010) and the editor of a special issue of the James Joyce Quarterly on the topic of Joyce and physiology (2009). Currently, she is completing a research monograph on interwar women writers and fashion provisionally entitled En Vogue: Women Writers, Fashion, and the Fictions of Modernity.

GIUSEPPINA RESTIVO is professor emeritus at the University of Trieste. Her main research areas are contemporary English theater, Shakespeare’s theater, and Shakespeare and the law. Her publications include two volumes on Edward Bond and Samuel Beckett; essays on Beckett (the last one in H. Bloom ed., Samuel Beckett, Chelsea House, 2011); three edited volumes on Hamlet, Othello and The Tempest; and essays on Shakespeare and the law (in The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Hamlet, King Lear and The Tempest), the last contribution being the voice “The law in Shakespeare’s theatre” for the Cambridge University Guide to Shakespeare, forthcoming in 2015.

SAM SLOTE is associate professor in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin. His most recent book is Joyce’s Nietzschean Ethics (Palgrave, 2013). In addition to Joyce and Beckett, he has written on Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Raymond Queneau, Dante, Mallarmé, and Elvis.