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Notes on Contributors LOUIS ARMAND is a writer, visual artist and critical theorist. Born in Sydney, he has lived in Prague since 1994, where he is director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Charles University. His critical and theoretical work has been published in journals such as Ctheory, Triquarterly and Culture Machine. His most recent books include Solicitations : Essays on Criticism and Culture (Litteraria Pragensia, 2008), Event States: Discourse, Time, Mediality (Litteraria Pragensia, 2007) and Contemporary Poetics (Northwestern University Press, 2007). He is a member of the editorial board of Rhizomes: Studies in Cultural Knowledge and founding editor (1994) of the online journal HJS (Hypermedia Joyce Studies). KEVIN BARRY is Professor of English at NUI Galway. He is the editor of James Joyce: Occasional, Critical and Political Writing (Oxford University Press) and author of The Dead (Cork University Press). MARCO CAMERANI holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Bologna. His thesis was entitled ‘Techniques of Montage between Literature and Film: Joyce’. He has published various book chapters and a monograph, Joyce e il cinema delle origini: Circe (Cadmo, 2008). His research interests include Joyce, early cinema, literature and cinema, modern and contemporary Italian literature. At present he is working on the idea and the representation of the ‘nervous body’ in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and cinema. MARIA DIBATTISTA, who teaches at Princeton University, has written widely on modern literature and film. She is the author of Fast Talking Dames: A Study of Classic Screwball Comedy (Yale University Press, 2001). Her latest work is Novel Characters: A Genealogy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). ix KATHERINE MULLIN is Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at the University of Leeds. She is the author of James Joyce, Sexuality and Social Purity (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and a number of articles. She is currently working towards a second book, Working Girls: Literature, Labour and Sexuality 1880–1930, which explores literary and cultural representations of typists, telegraphists, ‘shopgirls’ and barmaids. CLEO HANAWAY is a DPhil candidate at New College, University of Oxford. Her thesis is entitled: Modernism, Merleau-Ponty, and the Movies: A Study of the Interrelationships between Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Early Cinema, and Phenomenology. She holds a BA in English and Philosophy and an MA in Twentieth-Century Literature from the University of Leeds. She was awarded the John Barnard Bursary from the University of Leeds, the 1379 Society Old Members Oppenheimer Award from New College, and is currently funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. JOHN MCCOURT teaches at the Università Roma Tre. He is director of the Trieste Joyce School and author of The Years of Bloom: Joyce in Trieste 1904–1920 (2000) and of James Joyce: A Passionate Exile (2000). He edited Joyce in Context for Cambridge University Press (2009) and published Questioni Biografiche: Le Tante Vite di Yeats e Joyce (Bulzoni Editore, 2009). He is currently working on a book on Anthony Trollope and Ireland. LUKE MCKERNAN is Lead Curator, Moving Image at the British Library. He is a historian of early and non-fiction film and has published books on newsreels, Shakespearean film and filmmaking in the 1890s. His twin research interests of literary associations and film and the study of the first cinemas and their audiences come together in his investigations into James Joyce’s involvement with the Volta. He has presented film shows based on the Volta programmes in Ireland, England and Italy. JESSE MEYERS teaches classes on Joyce’s life and works at NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies having retired in 1995 from a 35year career in business journalism. He has also conducted classes on Joyce at Fairfield University, the State University of New York at Purchase, Sacred Heart University and at several public libraries. He began to lecture on Joyce in 2004 and has spoken at Joyce symposia in Dublin, Austin TX, NYC, Trieste and Buffalo NY. In 2004 he organised a multifaceted Joyce festival in Greenwich CT attracting some 1400 visitors. His most memorable Joycean teaching experience came at a retirement community where attendees ranged in age from 76–92. Happily, he reports, a few dozed but no one died. x Contributors x Contributors [3.239.119.159] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 13:55 GMT) ERIK SCHNEIDER was born in Berlin and raised in America. He has lived in Trieste for 20 years and has carried out extensive research on James Joyce’s stay in the Adriatic city. He was Director of the Trieste...