This installment of our “Clever, Very” series is an interview with Mark David Kaufman, an assistant professor of English at the United States Air Force Academy. Kaufman’s research interests include legal, aesthetic, and medical discourses as well as espionage and the recruitment of authors by MI6. Dr. Kaufman has published numerous articles on Joyce as…Continue Reading Clever, Very: Mark David Kaufman
For this installment of our “Clever, Very” series, we interviewed Dylan Emerick-Brown, an English teacher at Deltona High School in Florida who frequently teaches Joyce to his students. His essay, “Engaging Today’s High School Students with ‘The Dead,’” which appears in JJQ 56.3-4, outlines the fundamentals of his his methods for introducing Joyce to contemporary…Continue Reading Clever, Very: Dylan Emerick-Brown
For the latest installment in our “Clever, Very” series, we interviewed Dr. Jonathan Goldman, Associate Professor at the New York Institute of Technology and the editor of Joyce and the Law. Recently, Dr. Goldman was appointed Vice President of the James Joyce Society. The JJS has a rich history as one of the earliest Joyce…Continue Reading Clever, Very: Jonathan Goldman
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
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
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
Michelle Witen will be co-leading this Summer’s Zurich James Joyce Foundation’s Annual Workshop on the theme, Joycean Animals. She is a Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Basel’s Department of English Linguistics and Literature, and she has just released her first monograph James Joyce and Absolute Music (Bloomsbury 2018), which came out…Continue Reading Clever, Very: Michelle Witen
For our latest installment of “Clever, Very,” we interviewed Dr. Judith Paltin about her article “Music, Intermediality, and Shock in Ulysses.” Dr. Paltin is an assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) and co-chair of UBC’s Faculty of Arts program in Critical Studies in Sexuality….Continue Reading Clever, Very: Judith Paltin
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
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