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
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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
Clever, Very: Michelle Witen
Michelle Witen will be co-leading this Summer’s Zurich James Joyce Foundation’s Annual Workshop on the theme, Joycean Animals. She is a Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Basel’s Department of English Linguistics and Literature, and she has... MORE
Clever, Very: Judith Paltin
For our latest installment of “Clever, Very,” we interviewed Dr. Judith Paltin about her article “Music, Intermediality, and Shock in Ulysses.” Dr. Paltin is an assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British... MORE
Clever, Very: Simon O’Connor
Simon O’Connor was recently appointed Director of the Ulysses Centre* at Newman House, a joint venture of University College Dublin and the National Library of Ireland. This exciting new cultural landmark is slated to open in Spring 2019. O’Connor is... MORE
Clever, Very: Matthew Hayward
For this “Clever, Very” interview, Matthew Hayward spoke with us about his scholarship regarding the way in which Joyce collected information on commerce in his article, “‘Knowing Damn All About Banking Business’: Re-opening James Joyce’s ‘Notes on Business and Commerce’” which... MORE
Clever, Very: Katherine Ryan
For this “Clever, Very” interview, Katherine Ryan spoke with us about her exploration of family and inheritance in her latest article, “Milly Bloom as Blind Spot in Ulysses“, which appears in the latest issue of the JJQ (52.1). Dr. Ryan is a... MORE
Clever, Very: Joshua Kotin
For our latest “Clever, Very” interview, Joshua Kotin at Princeton University talked to us about the Mapping Expatriate Paris: The Shakespeare and Company Lending Library Project (MEP) project. The MEP, which we previously described in one of our blog posts,... MORE
Clever, Very: Derek Pyle
For this edition of “Clever, Very”, we spoke with Derek Pyle. Mr. Pyle heads the Waywords and Meansigns project, which seeks to recreate Finnegans Wake to music “in its whole wholume”, a task completed in two 2015 and 2016 editions.... MORE
Clever, Very: James Fairhall
“The Irish Bogtrotters” by William Elmes. Image © Trustees of the British Museum As part of our efforts to provide new online content to our readers, the James Joyce Quarterly is proud to introduce our new interview series, “Clever, Very”.... MORE