The James Joyce Centre, in Dublin, has announced the schedule for their 2019 Bloomsday Festival. It will feature a wide array of events and speakers on a range of topics including multiple walking tours, a “Ulysses Haiku Project,” a discussion... MORE
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Finnegans Wake at 80 in Dublin
Finnegans Wake, the book that has baffled and delighted readers since 1939, turns eighty this year. To celebrate this monumental publication anniversary, there are multiple events scheduled in Dublin this spring, which explore the book through a variety of academic,... MORE
Clever, Very: Nuala O’Connor
Recently, Nuala O’Connor won The JJQ’s fiction contest, which asked participants to submit their own version of the short story titled “Ulysses” that Joyce briefly considered adding to Dubliners. Her prize-winning entry appears in JJQ 55.1-2. As part of our... MORE
Issue 55.1-2
PERSPECTIVES “It darkles, (tinct, tint) all this our funnaminal world”: The Zurich James Joyce Foundation Workshop, 5-12 August 2018 Mikaela Kelley ARTICLES Introduction to “Encyclopedia Joyce”: On Being Very Big James Blackwell Phelan and Kiron Ward Ulysses, Annotation, and the... MORE
Reading Ulysses in High School—For Fun!
Imagine a bunch of high school students staying after school in order to dig into Joyce’s Ulysses. Although it sounds ambitious, that is exactly what a group of students are doing. Dylan Emerick-Brown is an English teacher at Deltona HS in... MORE
JJQ Anti-Harassment Statement
29 November 2018 On November 8, the James Joyce Quarterly received an open letter that alleged instances of sexual harassment and misconduct at numerous Joyce-related events sponsored by the International James Joyce Foundation and other such organizations. The letter was... MORE
Clever, Very: Mary Burke
As part of our “Clever, Very” series, we recently interviewed Mary Burke, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Irish Literature Concentration at UConn. She is author of “Tinkers”: Synge and the Cultural History of the Irish Traveller (Oxford).... MORE
Issue 54.3-4
PERSPECTIVES The Joy of the Joycean World: The James Joyce Spanish Association Conference, Bilbao, Spain, 5-6 April 2018 Macarena Martín Martínez Some Essays About Aesthetics: The Twenty-Sixth International James Joyce Symposium, Antwerp, Belgium, 11-16 June 2018 Lillian Hingley ARTICLES Forgotten... MORE
Clever, Very: Richard Barlow
As part of our “Clever, Very” series, we recently interviewed Richard Barlow, an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University and author of The Celtic Unconscious: Joyce and Scottish Culture as well as multiple articles about Joyce. Dr. Barlow will be... MORE
James Joyce Center Autumn/Winter Lecture Series 2018
The James Joyce Centre, in Dublin, has announced their 2018 Autumn and Winter lecture series. It will feature a diverse assortment of speakers and will cover a range of topics from the serialization of Joyce, to translating Paul Léon’s letters,... MORE