Notes on Contributors

Richard Brown is Reader in Modern Literature in the University of Leeds, the author of James Joyce and Sexuality (1984) and James Joyce: A Postculturalist Perspective (reprinted 2005), and editor of Joyce, “Penelope” and the Body (2006). He co-founded in 1980 and co-edits the James Joyce Broadsheet, currently serves as Trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation, and has written widely on James Joyce and on such contemporary writers as Paul Muldoon, Ian McEwan, and Bob Dylan.

Maud Ellmann is Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her books include The Poetics of Impersonality: T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound (1987), The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing, and Imprisonment (1993), and Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow across the Page (2004), which won the British Academy’s Rose Mary Crawshay Prize.

Daniel Ferrer is Director of Research at the Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes (CNRS-ENS) in Paris. He is editor of the journal Genesis. The books he has written or co-edited include Post-structuralist Joyce (1984); Virginia Woolf and the Madness of Language (1990); Ulysse à l’ article: Joyce aux marges du roman (1992); Genetic Criticism: Texts and Avant-texte (2004). With Vincent Deane and Geert Lernout he is currently editing the Finnegans Wake notebooks.

Finn Fordham is a Lecturer in Twentieth-Century English in the School of English Studies at the University of Nottingham. His publications include articles on Joyce, genetic criticism, modernism, and contemporary writing, and reviews for the Guardian Review. His Lots of Fun at “Finnegans Wake” was published in 2007.

Luke Gibbons is Keough Family Professor of Irish Studies, and Professor of English, and Film, Television, and Theater, at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Gaelic Gothic: Race, Colonialism and Irish Culture (2004), Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics and the Colonial Sublime (2003), The Quiet Man (2002), and Transformations in Irish Culture (1996), co-author of the pioneering book Cinema in Ireland (1988), and a contributing editor of the landmark Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (1991). He is the co-editor (with Dudley Andrew) of “The Theatre of Irish Cinema,” a special issue of The Yale Journal of Criticism (2002), and of Re-Inventing Ireland: Culture, Politics and the Global Economy (2002). He is currently working on Joyce’s Ghosts: Ireland, Modernity and the Memory of the Dead.

Eishiro Ito is Associate Professor of English at Iwate Prefectural University, Japan. His field of research is modern Irish literature, particularly the works of James Joyce, W. B. Yeats, and Seamus Heaney. His recent research focuses on “Joyce and Orientalism,” involving Jewish and East Asian studies.

R. Brandon Kershner is Alumni Professor of English at the University of Florida. He is author of Dylan Thomas: The Poet and His Critics (1977), Joyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Literature (1989), The Twentieth-Century Novel: An Introduction (1997); he also edited Joyce and Popular Culture (1996) and Cultural Studies of Joyce (2003).

Declan Kiberd is Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature at University College Dublin. Among his books are Synge and the Irish Language (1979), Men and Feminism in Modern Literature (1985), Idir Dhá Chultúr (1993), Inventing Ireland (1995), and Irish Classics (2000). He edited Ulysses for Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics (1992). A member of the Royal Irish Academy, he is a Director of the Abbey Theatre.

Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes is a Lecturer in Historical and Theoretical Studies in Visual Art at the University of Ulster, Belfast. She gained her PhD at Cologne University and was James Joyce Foundation Scholar in Zurich. She has published on contemporary Irish artists and interventionist arts practices. Her books include one on Joseph Beuys (2001, in German) and Joyce in Art: Visual Art Inspired by James Joyce (2004). The latter accompanied a large-scale art exhibition on the theme. She also curates for the Goethe Institut, Dublin.

Geert Lernout is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Antwerp where he is also director of the James Joyce Center. He is the author of The French Joyce (1990), and co-editor (with Wim van Mierlo) of The European Reception of James Joyce in Europe (2004), and has published widely on Joyce, Hölderlin, genetic criticism, textual editing, and the Bible.

Jane Lewty has served as Postdoctoral Fellow at University College London and Assistant Professor of British and Irish Literature at the University of Northern Iowa. She has published on Joyce, Pound, Woolf, and aspects of sound technology in modernist literature. A co-edited collection, Broadcasting Modernism, is forthcoming from the University Press of Florida. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

John McCourt teaches at the Università di Roma. He is founder and co-director of the Trieste Joyce School. He is the author of The Years of Bloom: Joyce in Trieste 1904 – 1920 (2000) and of James Joyce: A Passionate Exile (an illustrated biography). He guest-edited a special Trieste issue of the James Joyce Quarterly in 2001 and is currently editing James Joyce in Context for Cambridge University Press.

Vicki Mahaffey is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of York and the author of Reauthorizing Joyce (1988) and States of Desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce and the Irish Experience (1998). Her most recent book is Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions (2007), which argues for the importance of the intellectual challenges presented by supposedly difficult modernist texts.

Katherine Mullin is Lecturer in the School of English at the University of Leeds. Her James Joyce, Sexuality and Social Purity was published in 2003. Her current project, Working Girls, explores the literary and cultural representations of typists, shop-girls, and barmaids between 1880 and 1920.

John Nash is Lecturer in English Studies at Durham University. He is the author of James Joyce and the Act of Reception: Reading, Ireland, Modernism (2006) and the editor of Joyce’s Audiences (2002). He has contributed many essays and articles on Joyce, modern literature, and critical theory to books and journals.

Jean-Michel Rabaté has been Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania since 1992 and is currently Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Modern Literature, and he is a Trustee of the James Joyce Foundation and a senior curator of the Slought Foundation, Philadelphia. He has authored or edited 30 books on modernism, psychoanalysis, theory, Joyce, Pound, and Beckett. Recent titles include Given: 1) Art, 2) Crime (2006) and Lacan Literario (2007). Forthcoming are 1913: The Cradle of Modernism (2007) and The Ethic of the Lie (2008).

John Paul Riquelme is Professor of English at Boston University and author of Teller and Tale in Joyce’s Fiction (1983) and Harmony of Dissonances: T. S. Eliot, Romanticism, and Imagination (1991). He has edited Fritz Senn’s Joyce’s Dislocutions: Essays on Reading as Translation, as well as A Portrait of the Artist, Dracula, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, and Gothic and Modernism: Essaying Dark Literary Modernity.

Krishna Sen is Professor of English at the University of Calcutta. She has published Negotiating Modernity: Myth in the Theatre of Eliot, O’Neill and Sartre (1999) and Critical Essays on R. K. Narayan (2003), and has edited the Penguin (India) edition of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House.

Mark Taylor-Batty is a Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies in the School of English, University of Leeds. His Harold Pinter was published in September 2001 and About Pinter: The Playwright and the Work in 2005. He is Associate Editor in Britain of the Pinter Review.

Luke Thurston is Lecturer in English at the University of Wales at Aberystwyth. He is the author of James Joyce and the Problem of Psychoanalysis (2004) and editor of Re- inventing the Symptom: Essays on the Final Lacan (2002).

Derval Tubridy is Lecturer in English and Visual Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has published a monograph on Thomas Kinsella: The Peppercanister Poems (2001) and many articles on Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, the Dolmen Press, Literature and Philosophy, the Livre d’Artiste, and contemporary visual art. Her research has been supported by the Fulbright Commission and the British Academy.

Robert K. Weninger is Professor of German at King’s College London and editor of Comparative Critical Studies. He has published several studies of Joyce and Arno Schmidt in German as well as “Framing a Novelist”: Arno Schmidt Criticism 1970 – 1994 (1995). His most recent monograph, Streitbare Literaten, was published in 2004.

Mark Wollaeger is Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. He is author of Modernism, Media, and Propaganda: British Narrative from 1900 to 1945 (2006) and Joseph Conrad and the Fictions of Skepticism (1990). He is editor of James Joyce’s “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”: A Casebook (2003), and co-editor, with Victor Luftig and Robert Spoo, of Joyce and the Subject of History (1996).

David G. Wright is Senior Lecturer in English and Irish literature at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is the author of Characters of Joyce (1983), Yeats’s Myth of Self: The Autobiographical Prose (1987), Ironies of “Ulysses” (1991), and “Joyita”: Solving the Mystery (2002), and of articles about Joyce, Yeats, Harold Pinter, and Graham Greene.