We at the James Joyce Quarterly were saddened to learn of Brenda Maddox’s passing last Bloomsday, June 16, 2019, at the age of 87. Brenda Maddox was an American author and journalist who won wide critical acclaim for her biographies... MORE
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Interview with Professor Mikio Fuse
As Bloomsday approaches, we are delighted to publish this interview Scarlett Baron (University College London) conducted with Mikio Fuse (University of Sacred Heart, Tokyo) about his Finnegans Wake Genetic Research Archive. It’s a useful reminder of the broad global scope... MORE
Bloomsday Festival 2019
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
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