Contributors
- Contributors
Elizabeth S. Anker is currently Assistant Professor of English at Wake Forest University and will join Cornell University’s English Department as Assistant Professor in the fall of 2008. She has articles and review essays forthcoming in Modern Fiction Studies and Theory & Event, and she is finishing a book on human rights and the post-colonial novel.
David Ayers is Reader in Modernism and Critical Theory in the School of English at the University of Kent. His publications include Wyndham Lewis and Western Man, English Literature of the 1920s, Modernism: A Short Introduction, and Literary Theory: A Reintroduction.
Abby Bender received her Ph.D. degree from Princeton University and is now teaching Irish literature at New York University’s Glucksman Ireland House. She has published essays on Irish-Mexican solidarity during the Mexican-American War and on Lady Gregory. Her current book project, Israelites in Erin, examines the Biblical narrative of Exodus in the Irish national imagination, and she is also completing an essay entitled “The Bloomsday Seder: Joyce and Jewish Memory” for a forthcoming collection on Joyce and cultural memory.
Gregory Castle is Professor of Modern British and Irish Literature at Arizona State University. In addition to essays on Irish literature and history, he has published Modernism and the Celtic Revival, Reading the Modernist Bildungsroman, and the Blackwell Guide to Literary Theory. He has edited Postcolonial Discourses and is editor of volume 1 (1900–1966) of the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory (forthcoming in 2010). Other current work focuses on Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, Joyce, and nineteenth-century Irish Revivalism.
Alan W. Friedman, Thaman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin, has authored five books, most recently Fictional Death and the Modernist Enterprise and Party Pieces: Oral Narrative and Social Performance in Joyce and Beckett, and has edited five others. He was co-coordinator of the 2007 North American James Joyce conference, “Joyce in Austin.”
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 [End Page 853] 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.
John Gordon is Professor of English at Connecticut College. He received his undergraduate degree from Hamilton College and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is the author of James Joyce’s Metamorphoses, “Finnegans Wake”: A Plot Summary, Physiology and the Literary Imagination, and Joyce and Reality: The Empirical Strikes Back. He is also the author of two monographs on Joyce, Notes on Issy and Almosting It, and some fifty essays on modern literature. He is currently working on a book about Charles Dickens.
Ian Gunn co-founded the Split Pea Press in 1987 and is currently based in the School of Arts, Culture, and Environment at the University of Edinburgh. His most recent Joyce publication is James Joyce’s Dublin: A Topographical Guide to the Dublin of “Ulysses” with Clive Hart and Harald Beck.
Benjamin D. Hagen is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Rhode Island and is currently working through readings that imbricate Anglo-American modernism, contemporary fiction, and critical theory.
Clive Hart is retired from teaching but continues to work at Joyce. His book James Joyce’s Dublin, with Ian Gunn, is under preparation for a new and expanded edition.
Simon Loekle is a commentator for WBAI in New York City, where he frequently includes programs on Joyce studies in his brodcasts. His “dazibao” on matters Joycean have appeared in the newsletters of the James Joyce Society and are a regular feature of the JJQ.
Peter Mahon teaches in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of...
