Contributors
- Contributors
Martin Bock is Professor of English at the University of Minnesota Duluth where he teaches courses in modern Anglo-Irish literature and transatlantic modernism. He is the author of Joseph Conrad and Psychologica Medicine, numerous articles on Conrad, and occasional essays on James Joyce and Malcolm Lowry. He has a chapter on "Disease and Medicine" forthcoming in Conrad in Context to be published by the Cambridge University Press.
Layne Parish craig is a Ph.D. candidate in English literature at the University of Texas at Austin with research interests in interwar literature, women's social movements, and feminist theory. Her dissertation explores the influence of the transatlantic birth-control movement on belletristic women writers in Ireland, England, and the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. She has a master's degree in literature from Baylor University.
Neil R. Davison is Associate Professor of English with interests in modernism, Irish studies, and Jewish cultural studies at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. He is the author of the Cambridge monograph James Joyce, "Ulysses," and the Construction of Jewish Identity and has published widely on Joyce and other Irish figures, including Flann O'Brien and George Moore. He has just completed a manuscript entitled A Different Difference: Jewishness, Masculinity, and Zionism from the Modern to Postmodern.
Damon Franke is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi and is the author of Modernist Heresies: British Literary History, 1883-1924. He has published several articles and reviews on Joyce, and he is currently working on a study of the literatures of the environment from the Edwardian period.
Andrew Gibson is Professor of Modern Literature and Theory at the University of London and the Carole and Gordon Segal Visiting Professor of Irish Literature at Northwestern University for 2008. He is a member of the editorial board of the JJQ, a former Trustee of the James Joyce Foundation, the founder and director of the London University Seminar for Research into Joyce's Ulysses and the co-founder and co-director of the London University Seminar for Research into Finnegans Wake. He is the author and editor of many books, including Joyce's Revenge: History, Politics and Aesthetics in "Ulysses," James Joyce: A Critical Life, and, with Len Platt, Joyce, Ireland, Britain. He is currently writing The Strong Spirit: History, Politics, and Aesthetics in Joyce's Writings 1898-1914 for the Oxford University Press.
Michael Patrick Gillespie is the Louise Edna Goeden Professor [End Page 187] of English at Marquette University. His book The Myth of an Irish Cinema will be published in December. He is currently working on a Joycean Oral History Project and an anthology of Joyce essays from the 1950s and 1960s.
Simon Loekle is a commentator for WBAI in New York City, where he frequently includes programs on Joyce studies in his broadcasts. His "dazibao" on matters Joycean have appeared in the newsletters of the James Joyce Society and are a regular feature of the JJQ.
Jeffrey Longacre is currently the Tulsa Project Manager for the Modernist Journals Project. His dissertation, "On the Threshold of the Infinite: Blake, Joyce, and the War on Authority," is an intensive, critical comparison of parallel themes in the major works of William Blake and James Joyce.
Scott J. Ordway is a composer and conductor, Director of the Eugene Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, and a Graduate Teaching Fellow in Composition at the University of Oregon. He is presently composing his Second Symphony, a multimedia work exploring the relationship between sound and projected text fragments, which will receive its premiere in November 2008. He has received awards, grants, and performance opportunities from the American Composers Forum, American Music Center, Radio Classica Rome and Milan, the Oregon Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, the Accademia Chigiana in Tuscany, and the University of Oregon. More information can be found at <www.scottjordway.com>.
James T. Ramey received his Ph.D. degree from the University of California Berkeley and is Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature and Film Studies at the Metropolitan Autonomous University-Cuajimalpa in Mexico City. He has published an essay in Comparative Literature Studies on puzzles in Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire and has an essay forthcoming in...
