Contributors
- Contributors
STEPHEN ABBLITT is a literary philosopher, queer theorist, and post-critic. His research interests cover literary modernism, deconstruction, gender studies and queer theory, critical-creative writing, and digital pedagogies. His current work continues critically and creatively to interrogate the range of intersections and correspondences between James Joyce and Jacques Derrida. He is the managing editor of the interdisciplinary, open-access gender, sexuality, and diversity studies journal Writing from Below, <www.writingfrombelow.org.au>. He can be reached at S.Abblitt@latrobe.edu.au.
MARGOT GAYLE BACKUS is Professor of English in the University of Houston’s Department of English. She is the author of The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality, Child Sacrifice and the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order and Scandal Work: James Joyce, the New Journalism, and the Home Rule Newspaper Wars. With Maria Gonzalez, she is co-editing three catalogues of visual art, nonfiction essays, and poetry about national borders for Houston’s Voices Breaking Boundaries, a political, transnational arts organization. Borderlines I appeared in 2014, and Borderlines II is forthcoming in 2015. Backus is the Queens University Belfast 2014-2015 Fulbright Scholar of Anglophone Irish Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry. With Joe Valente, she is co-authoring The Crux of the X: The Child Sex Scandal in Modern Irish Literature.
ANTONIO BIBBÒ completed his Ph.D. studies at the University of L’Aquila and Pisa and is now the Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Manchester, where he is researching the reception of Irish literature in Italy in the first half of the twentieth century. He has published essays on the politics of translation, James Joyce, John Dos Passos, Virginia Woolf, and Flann O’Brien and has translated The Years and Moll Flanders into Italian (forthcoming from Feltrinelli).
CRAIG BUCKWALD has taught literature and humanities at the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University. He has published essays on James Joyce and Charles Dickens and, as coauthor, on the ethics of reading, and he has recently written on William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Among his projects-in-progress is a manuscript on Joyce and English Romanticism. He is currently Director of Communications and Speechwriter for the Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor of the University of California, Davis.
TIM CONLEY is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Brock University in Canada. He is the author of Joyces Mistakes: Problems of Intention, Irony, and Interpretation and has edited [End Page 915] the essay collection Joyce’s Disciples Disciplined and co-edited the anthology Burning City: Poems of Metropolitan Modernity. A new volume, Doubtful Points: Joyce and Punctuation, co-edited with Elizabeth Bonapfel, is forthcoming.
NEIL R. DAVISON is Associate Professor of Modernism, Irish Studies, and Jewish Cultural Studies at Oregon State University in Corvallis. He is the author of Jewishness and Masculinity from the Modern to the Postmodern and is presently working on the presence of the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas in modern literary works, as well as continuing his dogged research into Jewish aspects of Joyce’s work. His essay “Schwarz-Bart, Levinas, and Post-Shoah/Postcolonial Gendered Ethics” will appear in Modern Fiction Studies in 2015, and, in collaboration with Vincent and Yvonne Altman O’Connor, a piece on the little-known Dublin Jewish figure Albert Altman will appear in the Dublin James Joyce Journal in 2015.
KATHERINE EBURY is a lecturer in modern literature at the University of Sheffield. She is the author of Modernism and Cosmology, a monograph on the influence of Einsteinian physics on the textual universes created by W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett, and her articles have appeared or are forthcoming in the Journal of Modern Literature, Joyce Studies Annual, Irish Studies Review, Dublin James Joyce Journal, and Society and Animals. Her latest project examines modernist philosophical, political, and aesthetic responses to capital punishment and to the abolitionist movements of the 1920s and 1930s.
OONA FRAWLEY lectures in Irish and world literature at Maynooth University. She is the author of Irish Pastoral and the editor of the four-volume Memory Ireland series. In 2014, she published her first novel, the critically acclaimed Flight, published by the Tramp Press, which was nominated for an...
