Contributors
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Victoria Bond has received commissions from American Ballet Theatre; Pennsylvania Ballet; Houston, Shanghai, Elgin and Billings Symphony Orchestras; Cleveland, Indianapolis, and Gettysburg Chamber Orchestras; the Women's Philharmonic; Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival; Lake Erie Ballet; Symphony Space; Orion Ensemble; Audubon and Elements String Quartets; Pianofest; Sequitur; Joy in Singing; American Society for Jewish Music; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her compositions have been performed by the Dallas Symphony, New York City Opera, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, members of the New York Philharmonic, Radio Telefis Eirann, the Martinu Philharmonic, and the Slovak Radio Orchestra. She was recently honored with the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Walter Hinrichsen Award. The first woman awarded a doctorate in conducting from the Julliard School, Bond was appointed by Andre Previn as Exxon/Arts Endowment Conductor with the Pittsburgh Symphony. She has served as Music Director of the New Amsterdam and Roanoke Symphony Orchestras and the Artistic Director of Opera Roanoke and the Harrisburg Opera, as Music Advisor to the Wuhan Symphony in China, and as Principle Guest Conductor of Chamber Opera Chicago. She has guest conducted throughout the United States, Europe, South America, and China. Victoria Bond has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal and on NBC's Today Show, and featured in People magazine and in The New York Times.
Emily Cersonsky is currently completing a doctorate in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her dissertation investigates the use of foreign language in British literature around and between the two World Wars, particularly as it is used to parse political/national allegiances and affinities. Her scholarly interests include British and comparative literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, translation [End Page 223] theory and practice, women's and gender studies, war and violence, and the creation of a world-literary canon. Her publications include "From Japonisme to To the Lighthouse" (Pouvoirs de l'imaginaire: paroles, texts, et images; Figure, 2008) and a review in the 2010 Woolf Studies Annual.
Kimberly J. Devlin is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Wandering and Return in "Finnegans Wake": An Imaginative Approach to Joyce's Fictions (Princeton University Press, 1991) and James Joyce's Fraudstuff (University Press of Florida, 2002). Her articles have appeared in PMLA, Joyce Quarterly, Novel, Joyce Studies Annual, and several essay collections. She has coedited Joycean Cultures/Culturing Joyces (University of Delaware Press, 1998) and Ulysses—En-gendered Perspectives (University of South Carolina Press, 1999). She has an essay on "A Mother" forthcoming in Dialogue (edited by Vicki Mahaffey) and another, co-authored with Mingming Zhang, on ALP in Finnegans Wake III.3 forthcoming in JJQ.
Katherine Ebury is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of York, working on the creative impact of relativistic astronomy and cosmology on the work of Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett. Her thesis is provisionally titled " 'Absurd Lights': Early Twentieth-Century Cosmology and the Modernist Universe."
Edmund Lloyd Epstein is Professor of English at Queens College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. His primary specialty is British literature, especially the works of Joyce, Yeats, Eliot, Hopkins, and Pound. In the past fifty years, he has written or edited ten books, six of which are on Joyce. He has also written forty-six articles, reviews, and other notes on Joyce's works, and has given more than sixty addresses on modern literature. His other specialty is linguistics; he has written four books and more than forty articles on the language of literature, especially syntax and pragmatics. He is now engaged in writing three books on the origin and structure of human language. In 1957, he founded and edited the first Joyce journal, The James Joyce Review, with the assistance of (among others) Thornton Wilder, William Carlos Williams, William York Tindall, and Joyce's daughter-in-law, Helen Joyce. Professor Epstein is a member of the Board of Advisors of James Joyce Quarterly and Joyce Studies Annual. [End Page 224]
Elizabeth Foley O'Connor is Visiting Lecturer at Marist College. She recently completed her Ph.D. at Fordham University, and her dissertation explores women's interactions in the city in...
