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  • A Look Back at the James Joyce Quarterly
  • Carol Kealiher, Managing Editor

On this important celebration of fifty years of publication, the James Joyce Quarterly wishes to recognize those who have made vital contributions during that time. We are grateful to the University of Tulsa, our publisher, whose financial support, encouragement, and assignment of graduate assistants have been crucial to the operations of the journal. We especially pay tribute to Roger Blais, the TU Provost, whose special guidance and leadership have made the continuing excellence of the journal possible. We also salute the three editors of the JJQ, all of whom are distinguished scholars and Joyceans: Thomas F. Staley, our founder, whose original inspiration brought the JJQ into being and whose research has helped to keep Joyce’s writings at the forefront of literary studies; Robert Spoo, the current copyrights editor, whose astute legal expertise and altruistic advice have continued to make his role with the journal a vital one; and Sean Latham, whose sagacity and leadership have made it possible for the journal to continue as the leading venue for discussions of Joyce’s works, especially in this digital age. It is of particular interest that each editor has represented a new and dynamic direction for the journal: Tom was a seminal part of the inception of Joyce studies and led the way when a community of scholars began to gather around the writer; Bob continually coped with the difficulties of copyright and intellectual-property issues and has been a vital part of the group formed to make Joyce’s work more openly accessible to scholars and artists; and Sean has brought the journal into digital life with its website featuring a lively blog and links to Joyce-related events and its presence in Project MUSE, JSTOR, Facebook, and Wikipedia. Indeed, it seems that those responsible for the hiring of JJQ editors were prescient in their selection of the ideal candidates through the years.

We deeply appreciate the members of our editorial board, without whom we would not have been able to maintain our standards of excellence throughout fifty years, and our superb cadre of specialist readers. Those currently serving in either or both of these capacities include Derek Attridge, Morris Beja, John Bishop, Austin Briggs, Sheldon Brivic, William S. Brockman, Gregory Castle, Vincent Cheng, Patrick Collier, Tim Conley, Neil Davison, Hermione de Almeida, Jed Deppman, Kevin J. H. Dettmar, Kimberly J. Devlin, James E. Doan, Jeffrey Drouin, Enda Duffy, David Earle, Heyward Ehrlich, Marian Eide, Maud Ellmann, Lars Engle, James Fairhall, Sidney Feshbach, Anne Fogarty, Finn Fordham, Damon Franke, Oona Frawley, Alan [End Page 15] Friedman, Christine Froula, Hans Walter Gabler, Andrew Gibson, Michael Patrick Gillespie, John Gordon, Roy Gottfried, Michael Groden, Clive Hart, David Hayman, Suzette Henke, Allan Hepburn, Cheryl Herr, Miranda Hickman, R. Brandon Kershner, Joseph A. Kestner, Terence Killeen, Scott Klein, Sebastian Knowles, Holly Laird, Colleen Lamos, Jules David Law, Karen Lawrence, Jim LeBlanc, Garry Leonard, Geert Lernout, Morton Levitt, Jeffrey Longacre, Brenda Maddox, Vicki Mahaffey, Dominic Manganiello, Celia Marshik, Tim Martin, Patrick A. McCarthy, John McCourt, John McIntyre, Katy Mullin, Ira Nadel, John Nash, Emer Nolan, Margot Norris, Francis O’Gorman, Mary O’Toole, David Pierce, Len Platt, Vike Martina Plock, Jean-Michel Rabaté, David P. Rando, Marilyn Reizbaum, Thomas J. Rice, John Paul Riquelme, Stephen Ross, Paul Saint-Amour, R. J. Schork, Paul Schwaber, John Schwartz, Fritz Senn, Mark Shechner, Philip T. Sicker, Sam Slote, Robert Spoo, Weldon Thornton, Luke Thurston, Janine Utell, Joseph Valente, Dirk Van Hulle, Wim Van Mierlo, Robert Weninger, and Mark Wollaeger.

We wish to recognize the early work of our first bibliographer, Alan M. Cohn, and to thank William S. Brockman, the current JJQ bibliographer, for his devoted service for over twenty years, his continual scouring of the myriad lists of published books, articles, and miscellaneous mentions of Joyce, and his meticulous crafting of the “Current Checklist” that appears in every issue. The compilation of Bill’s Checklists through the years and its presence on the website of the Harry Ransom Research Center promise to be of inestimable value to researchers in the future.

We extend gratitude to Simon Loekle, the talented artist who creates the intriguing dazibao...

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