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 himself a composer and served as founding curator of the Little Museum of Dublin. He…Continue Reading Clever, Very: Simon O’Connor
PERSPECTIVES “Forging New Paths”: A Report on “Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities,” University of Vienna, 29 September-1 October 2016 Daniel Curran “Academic Trekkies”: A Report on “Diasporic Joyce,” The International North American James Joyce Conference, Toronto, Canada, 21-25 June 2017 Layne M. Farmen “Shortest Way Home”: A Report on the Dublin James Joyce Summer School,…Continue Reading Volume 53.1-2
The James Joyce Quarterly is delighted to welcome two new members to its international Editorial Advisory Board: Dr. John Nash and Dr. Jolanta Wawrzycka. Both are distinguished experts in the field and will bring to the board some new expertise in established and emerging areas like translation, reception studies, and literary history. Nash currently teaches…Continue Reading JJQ Welcomes Two New Board Members
Between 11 and 16 June 2018, the University of Antwerp’s Centre for Manuscript Genetics will host the 26th International James Joyce Symposium in the city that Joyce and his family visited in the summer of 1926. Belgium is small, so much so that all of the sites Joyce toured that year (Ostend, Bruges, Ghent, Brussels and, most…Continue Reading Call For Papers: The 26th Annual James Joyce Symposium
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 appears in the latest issue of the JJQ (52.3). Dr. Matthew Hayward is currently a Lecturer in…Continue Reading Clever, Very: Matthew Hayward
In 1920, Ulysses was effectively banned from publication in the United States when a New York court held that the serialized version then appearing in The Little Review was obscene. For the next thirteen years, the book remained in limbo, until another New York court finally ruled it a piece of literature that was unlikely to…Continue Reading Joyce in 100 Objects: How to Enjoy Ulysses
The “Ulysses” Contest: A Creative Writing Competition Sponsored by the James Joyce Quarterly Overview In September 1906, James Joyce finished work on “Grace,” one of the very last stories he drafted for what would become Dubliners. He then wrote to his brother Stanislaus that he was toying with an idea for one more tale. This…Continue Reading The “Ulysses” Contest: A Creative Writing Competition
PERSPECTIVES The Energy of Modernity: The 2016 Boston Joyce Forum, Boston College, 12 November 2016 Fabrizio Ciccione ARTICLES “Knowing Damn All About Banking Business”: Reopening James Joyce’s “Notes on Business and Commerce” Matthew Hayward “On Lifting the Lid of the Desk”: The Empty Spaces and Certain Circumstances of “A Painful Case” Tim Cook The “unfettered freedom” of…Continue Reading Volume 52.3-4
We’re excited to announce that we are making great progress on our next double-issue, volume 53 issue 3-4! To whet your appetite, here is a preview of the cover and the table of contents. …Continue Reading Sneak Peak: 52.3-4 Cover and Table of Contents
For the last several months, the James Joyce Quarterly, Booksmart Tulsa, and the Guthrie Green have been holding the Ulysses Recovered Book Cover contest, in which we invited artists to design new covers for the book we celebrate each year on Bloomsday. We are proud to kick off Bloomsday by announcing our two winners! Both winners…Continue Reading Announcement: Ulysses Recovered Book Cover Contest Winners