In 2001, a notebook, not functionally unlike the spiral notebooks that children need when shopping for the first days of school, was sold at auction for £861,250 sterling, over a million USD. It was a “lost” notebook once used by James Joyce to draft the “Eumaeus” episode of Ulysses. This notebook, and many others just…Continue Reading Joyce in 100 Objects: Notebooks for Drafting
Month: May 2020
Katherine Ebury: COVID Check-In
This is the thirteenth installment in our COVID Check-Ins series, in which we feature videos by various Joyceans from around the world to update us on how they are handling the COVID pandemic, how their community is responding, and how it has affected their teaching/research. This entry features Katherine Ebury, a senior lecturer at the…Continue Reading Katherine Ebury: COVID Check-In
Dylan Emerick-Brown: COVID Check-In
This is the twelfth installment in our COVID Check-Ins series, in which we feature videos by various Joyceans from around the world to update us on how they are handling the COVID pandemic, how their community is responding, and how it has affected their teaching/research. This entry features Dylan Emerick-Brown, an English teacher who often…Continue Reading Dylan Emerick-Brown: COVID Check-In
Ronan Crowley: COVID Check-In
This is the eleventh installment in our COVID Check-Ins series, in which we feature videos by various Joyceans from around the world to update us on how they are handling the COVID pandemic, how their community is responding, and how it has affected their teaching/research. This entry features Ronan Crowley, a research fellow at the…Continue Reading Ronan Crowley: COVID Check-In
John McCourt: COVID Check-In
This is the tenth installment in our COVID Check-Ins series, in which we feature videos by various Joyceans from around the world to update us on how they are handling the COVID pandemic, how their community is responding, and how it has affected their teaching/research. This entry features John McCourt, a professor at Università di…Continue Reading John McCourt: COVID Check-In
Joyce in 100 Objects: Bloom’s Potato
Joyce in 100 Objects: Bloom’s Potato “Talisman no.1” “Talisman no.2” “Talisman no. 3” “Talisman no. 4” 57x48cm watercolor paintings by Eoin Mac Lochlainn Exhibited at “Olives, Oysters, and Oranges,” Olivier Cornet Gallery, June 13-30, 2019 In Ireland, the potato is connected irrevocably with the Great Famine of 1845-49, and yet, in Ulysses,…Continue Reading Joyce in 100 Objects: Bloom’s Potato
Raising The Wind
I’m writing this from the corner of a room that has now become my office, looking out at the mix of storms and flowers that define every Oklahoma spring. From here, I can see neighbors in similar nooks in their homes and on their porches—all of us trying to figure out just what it means…Continue Reading Raising The Wind
Megan Quigley: COVID Check-In
This is the ninth installment in our COVID Check-Ins series, in which we feature videos by various Joyceans from around the world to update us on how they are handling the COVID pandemic, how their community is responding, and how it has affected their teaching/research. This entry features Megan Quigley, a professor at Villanova University,…Continue Reading Megan Quigley: COVID Check-In