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Rosa Maria Bollettieri Bosinelli is Professor of English at the Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators at the University of Bologna at Forlì, which she directed from 1992 to 1996. She chaired the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies on Translation, Languages, and Cultures from its inception in 1999 until 2005. In June 2000, she was elected President of the International James Joyce Foundation for a four-year mandate. She has published extensively on James Joyce, the language of advertising, screen translation, political language, and metaphor. Her publications on Joyce include The Benstock Library as a Mirror of Joyce, ReJoycings: New Readings of “Dubliners,” Anna Livia Plurabelle di James Joyce nella traduzione di Samuel Beckett e altri, The Languages of Joyce, and Myriadmindedman: Jottings on Joyce. She is currently editing a collection of essays entitled Joyce and/in Translation, forthcoming in 2007.

M. Teresa Caneda Cabrera is Associate Professor of English at the University of Vigo in Galicia, Spain, where she teaches twentieth-century literature in English, contemporary Irish literature and culture, and literary translation. She is the author of La estética modernista como práctica de resistencia en “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Her publications include translations from the work of English modernists into the Galician language and studies on translation and reception, as well as book chapters and articles on the work of James Joyce and several other modernist writers. She is currently working on a book about the relationship between modernism and translation.

Richard Corballis is Professor of English at Massey University, New Zealand. He came relatively late to Joyce after a longstanding interest in Anglo-Irish drama, which gave rise to articles on Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, and Sean O’Casey. His book on Tom Stoppard’s plays, Stoppard: The Mystery and the Clockwork, triggered his enthusiasm for Ulysses, which has since been the focus of two published articles with three more close to completion. The Wake is a new venture for him.

Jay Dickson is Associate Professor of English and the Humanities at Reed College. He has essays published or soon forthcoming on Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, and E. M. Forster.

Amy Feinstein is Assistant Professor of English at Colgate University, where she has been teaching courses on Joyce, modernism, and modernity since 2002. Her work has appeared in PMLA, Modern Fiction Studies, and Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish [End Page 191] Studies. She is currently working on a book entitled Gertrude Stein and the Making of Jewish Modernism.

Alan W. Friedman, Thaman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin, has authored five books, most recently Fictional Death and the Modernist Enterprise and the forthcoming Party Pieces: Oral Narrative and Social Performance in Joyce and Beckett, and has edited five others. He is co-coordinator of the 2007 North American James Joyce conference, “Joyce in Austin.”

Nouri Gana is Assistant Professor of English and Arab-American Studies at the University of Michigan, Dearborn. He specializes in modernist, Arab, and postcolonial literary and cultural studies. His most recent critical and theoretical work has appeared in American Imago, Études Irlandaises, Law and Literature, Theory & Event, Mosaic, and College Literature. His essay “Bourguiba’s Sons: Melancholy Manhood in Modern Tunisian Cinema” is forthcoming in Masculinity in Middle Eastern Literature and Film from Routledge Publishers in 2007. He has completed his first monograph entitled Signifying Loss: Joyce, Freud, Kincaid, Derrida, and the Poetics of Mourning

Peter Gilliver is an Associate Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. He is also working on a history of the OED, to be published by the Oxford University Press.

Ellen Carol Jones is the co-editor of Twenty-First Joyce and the editor of Joyce: Feminism/Post/Colonialism and special issues of Modern Fiction Studies entitled The Politics of Modernism, Virginia Woolf, Feminist Readings of Joyce, and Feminism and Modern Fiction. She has published numerous essays on Joyce, Woolf, and memorial representations of the Shoah. She has taught Irish Studies and Women’s Studies as Associate Professor of English and International Studies at Saint Louis University.

Jim LeBlanc is Head of Database Management Services at the Cornell University Library. In addition to his occasional work on Joyce, he has written on cataloging and classification, library technical services operations and workflow, Sartrean existentialism, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Alberto Moravia, Joni Mitchell, and the Beatles. He served as co-director of the 2005 North American James Joyce Conference, “Return to Ithaca,” held at Cornell University.

Andrew J. Mitchell is Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Stanford University where he teaches in the Philosophy and German Studies departments. His research is in the areas of mediation and materiality in continental philosophy and the philosophy of literature. He is the co-translator, with François Raffoul, of Martin Heidegger’s Four Seminars and the author of articles that have appeared in Research in Phenomenology and the JJQ.

Allison Pease is Associate Professor of English and Chair of Gender Studies at John Jay College, City University of New York. She is the author of Modernism, Mass Culture, and the Aesthetics of Obscenity and is at work on a book about modernism’s bored women.

Mary Power teaches Modern Irish Literature at the University of [End Page 192] New Mexico. She has recently published an essay on Nuala O’Faolain’s My Dream of You and is working on a project on Dubliners and Edna O’Brien’s Lantern Slides.

Friedhelm Rathjen is a free-lance literary critic, writer, translator, and Joycean. He is the editor of In Principle, Beckett Is Joyce, Music at Night: Arno Schmidt’s Garden of Verses, and James Joyce für Boshafte and the author of more than twenty books in the German language, the most recent ones including a collection of essays, Dritte Wege: Kontexte für Arno Schmidt und James Joyce, a collection of travel writings, Irish Stew: Irland und Leute, and Beckett: Eine Einführung ins Werk. His translations include excerpts from Finnegans Wake, Moby-Dick, Treasure Island, Huckleberry Finn, Mayan Letters, The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans, the poems of Gertrude Stein, the Lewis and Clark journals, and the writings of various contemporary authors including Christopher Buckley, Tom Murphy, Jonathan Ames, and others.

Franca Ruggieri is Professor of English at Università Roma Tre. She is the editor of Joyce Studies in Italy and coordinates the Ph.D. program in Literary Theories and Comparative Studies. She has published extensively on eighteenth-century literature and on James Joyce, including such works as Maschere dell’artista, Introduzione a Joyce, L’età di Johnson, and Dal Vittorianesimo al Modernismo.

William Sayers is the Cornell University Library’s selector for French literature and has an adjunct professorship in the Department of Comparative Literature.

John Pedro Schwartz is Assistant Professor of English at the American University of Beirut. He received his Ph.D. in English in 2006 from the University of Texas at Austin where he specialized in modern British and American literature, museum studies, composition studies, and twentieth-century Latin American literature. His dissertation examines museum discourse within modernism and modernity. A co-authored article, “Writing in the Wild: A Paradigm for Mobile Composition,” will appear in Going Wireless: A Critical Exploration of Wireless and Mobile Technologies for Composition Teachers and Scholars (forthcoming in 2007).

Andras Ungar taught English and “Great Books,” a liberal-arts college program, at Concordia University in Montreal for many years. He has published Joyce’s “Ulysses” as National Epic: Epic Mimesis and the Political History of the Nation State and is currently working on a novel.

Greg Winston is Assistant Professor of English at Husson College in Bangor, Maine. He has published articles on Joyce, Lady Gregory, Frank O’Connor, and Mary Lavin. The focus of his current research is Joyce and militarism.

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