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!
29 November 2018 On November 8, the James Joyce Quarterly received an open letter that alleged instances of sexual harassment and misconduct at numerous Joyce-related events sponsored by the International James Joyce Foundation and other such organizations. The letter was signed by ninety-six scholars from the around the world who demanded that the various Joyce…Continue Reading JJQ Anti-Harassment Statement
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). Her recent articles consider the politics of Irish souvenirs, Celtic Tiger motherhood and Claire Kilroy,…Continue Reading Clever, Very: Mary Burke
PERSPECTIVES The Joy of the Joycean World: The James Joyce Spanish Association Conference, Bilbao, Spain, 5-6 April 2018 Macarena Martín Martínez Some Essays About Aesthetics: The Twenty-Sixth International James Joyce Symposium, Antwerp, Belgium, 11-16 June 2018 Lillian Hingley ARTICLES Forgotten Remembrances: The 6 January “Women’s Christmas” (Nollaig na mBan) and the 6 January 1839 “Night…Continue Reading Issue 54.3-4
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 facilitating a new project which seeks to create an online research platform linking the text…Continue Reading Clever, Very: Richard Barlow
The James Joyce Centre, in Dublin, has announced their 2018 Autumn and Winter lecture series. It will feature a diverse assortment of speakers and will cover a range of topics from the serialization of Joyce, to translating Paul Léon’s letters, and Anna Livia’s monologue. All of the lectures are free to the public, but seating…Continue Reading James Joyce Center Autumn/Winter Lecture Series 2018