The Zurich Joyce Foundation has recently opened applications for its highly acclaimed annual Joyce workshop in 2020. The workshop–which will take place between August 2nd and August 8th, 2020–will focus upon “[c]lothing, in all possible aspects” as its subject matter. This particular gathering will be held in memory of Clive Hart and Rosa Maria…Continue Reading Onthergarmenteries: Zurich Workshop, August 2-8, 2020
December 6 marks the anniversary of one of the most influential rulings for both First Amendment activists and Joyceans alike. On this day in 1933, Judge John Munro Woolsey of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York lifted the U.S. Customs ban on Ulysses. In 1920, the joint editors…Continue Reading 86th Anniversary of the Woolsey Ruling
PERSPECTIVES “every ephemeral anniversary”: “Finnegans Wake at 80″ Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, 11-13 April 2019Cleo Hanaway-Oakley Dublin Celebrates the Wake’s 80th Birthday: “Finnegans Wake at 80”; “Lucia Joyce: Perspectives”; “Text/Sound/Performance: Making in CanadianSpace”; and “Finnegans Wake-End,” 11-13 April, 25-27 April, and 3-5 May 2019Derek Pyle “Joyce Without Borders”: A Report on the North American…Continue Reading Issue 56.1-2: “Anniversary Joyce”
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 of figures ranging from Elizabeth Taylor to William Butler Yeats to Rosalind Franklin. In particular,…Continue Reading In Memoriam: Brenda Maddox
As Bloomsday approaches, we are delighted to publish this interview which 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 of Joyce studies–and the rich opportunities for international collaboration that continue to expand. Mikio…Continue Reading Interview with Professor Mikio Fuse
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 on how to imagine Lucia Joyce, a pub crawl, and an interview with Senator David…Continue Reading Bloomsday Festival 2019
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, artistic, and popular approaches. The festivities begin April 11-13 with “Finnegans Wake at 80” ,…Continue Reading Finnegans Wake at 80 in Dublin
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 ongoing “Clever, Very” series, we interviewed Ms. O’Connor about her contribution, and about her writing…Continue Reading Clever, Very: Nuala O’Connor
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 Literature of Information Overload James Blackwell Phelan Filling in the Gaps: “Ithaca” and Encyclopedic Generation Philip…Continue Reading Issue 55.1-2
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 Florida and he describes how he has managed to draw a surprisingly large group of…Continue Reading Reading Ulysses in High School—For Fun!