Category: Clever, Very

“Clever, Very” is an ongoing series of interviews with various members of the Joycean community. “Clever, Very”–which takes its name from a headline from the “Aeolus” episode in Ulysses (U 7.674)–seeks to give our readers short and interesting insights into the activities and of other Joyce scholars.

Clever, Very: Katherine Ryan

Doll with appearance of fair-skinned blonde girl with light eyes in a light green dress and holding a white rose to her nose.

For this “Clever, Very” interview, Katherine Ryan spoke with us about her exploration of family and inheritance in her latest article, “Milly Bloom as Blind Spot in Ulysses“, which appears in the latest issue of the JJQ (52.1).  Dr. Ryan is a Professor in English at the San Jacinto College in Houston, Texas. James Joyce Quarterly:  In…Continue Reading Clever, Very: Katherine Ryan

Clever, Very: Joshua Kotin

Black and white photo of a man and a woman stand in the threshold of a building, with the street in the background. On the left is a woman, Sylvia Beach, facing partly away from the viewer and looking towards the man, James Joyce, on the right. James Joyce, on the right, is turned towards Beach and partly to the viewer and is looking directly into the camera.

For our latest “Clever, Very” interview, Joshua Kotin at Princeton University talked to us about the Mapping Expatriate Paris: The Shakespeare and Company Lending Library Project (MEP) project. The MEP, which we previously described in one of our blog posts, is a digital humanities project that digitizes the extensive records Sylvia Beach kept for her…Continue Reading Clever, Very: Joshua Kotin

Clever, Very: Derek Pyle

A drawing of James Joyce atop a red-orange background covered in text from Finnegans Wake. Joyce is facing the viewer and wearing headphones. His glasses are white. The left lens of his glasses depicts a ear receiving sound waves, and the right lens has a question mark on it in black

For this edition of “Clever, Very”, we spoke with Derek Pyle. Mr. Pyle heads the Waywords and Meansigns project, which seeks to recreate Finnegans Wake to music “in its whole wholume”, a task completed in two 2015 and 2016 editions. Waywords and Meansigns is in the process of taking submissions for a third and final…Continue Reading Clever, Very: Derek Pyle

Clever, Very: James Fairhall

“The Irish Bogtrotters” by William Elmes. Image © Trustees of the British Museum As part of our efforts to provide new online content to our readers, the James Joyce Quarterly is proud to introduce our new interview series, “Clever, Very”. This series, which takes its name from a headline in the “Aeolus” episode in Ulysses…Continue Reading Clever, Very: James Fairhall