Category: Blog

Blog posts are brief updates regarding the goings-on of the James Joyce Quarterly and the Joycean scholastic community.

In Memoriam: Claude Jacquet

  • Publication date October 13, 2020
  • Categories: Blog
Photograph of Daniel O'Connell's tomb in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.

The staff of the James Joyce Quarterly are saddened to learn of the passing of Claude Jacquet.   Claude Jacquet was a Professor of English at the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, and helped found the Joyce program at the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM). She was one of the first Joyce scholars to study the Finnegans Wake notebooks and edited multiple essay collections on Joyce. One of her books, Joyce et Rabelais….Continue Reading In Memoriam: Claude Jacquet

Raising the Wind: 57.1-2

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: 57.1-2

Issue 57.1-2

  • Publication date July 20, 2020
  • Categories: Blog, Issues

Raising the Wind Sean Latham PERSPECTIVES Memories of a Magical Bookshop–A Review of “Wise Men Fished Here”: The Centennial Exhibition in Honor of the Gotham Book Mart, New York, 1920-2020 Richard J. Gerber   ARTICLES Introduction to “The Art of Joyce” Scarlett Baron, Ronan Crowley, and Dirk Van Hulle   Joyce’s Art of Mosaic Scarlett…Continue Reading Issue 57.1-2

Digital Bloomsday 2020

  • Publication date June 1, 2020
  • Categories: Blog
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A lot of public events have been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including several popular celebrations of Bloomsday (June 16). However, this year Joyceans can still enjoy the community that surrounds Bloomsday thanks to a variety of digital events. For your convenience, the James Joyce Quarterly is compiling a list of digital Bloomsday happenings…Continue Reading Digital Bloomsday 2020

Joyce in 100 Objects: Notebooks for Drafting

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

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

  • Publication date May 19, 2020
  • Categories: Blog

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