Contributors
- Contributors
Roy Benjamin teaches English at Borough of Manhattan Community College. He has published articles on Joyce in the Journal of Modern Literature and has two essays on Finnegans Wake forthcoming in James Joyce Quarterly, one on kingship and another on the precession of the equinoxes. He is currently working on the last in a series of studies of the four gospels in the Wake.
Aingeal Clare is currently writing a Ph.D. dissertation on Joyce and nonsense literature at the University of York. She has published articles and reviews in a number of journals and newspapers, including the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review, and Poetry Review.
Kimberly J. Devlin is a Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Wandering and Return in "Finnegans Wake": An Integrative 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, James Joyce Quarterly, Novel, and several essay collections. She has co-edited Joycean Cultures/Culturing Joyces (University of Delaware Press, 1998) and Ulysses—En-Gendered Perspectives (University of South Carolina Press, 1999).
Melissa Free, currently Visiting Assistant Professor at Binghamton University, completed her Ph.D. at the University of Illinois in 2009. Her work has appeared in Texas Studies in Language and Literature, Book History, Studies in the Novel, and Victorian "Freaks": The Social Context of Freakery in Britain, edited by Marlene Tromp.
Ariela Freedman is Associate Professor at the Liberal Arts College of Concordia University in Montreal. Her research interests include memory [End Page 305] studies, the First World War, James Joyce, and postcolonialism. She has published articles in numerous journals, including Modernism/Modernity and JLM, and her book Death, Men and Modernism (Routledge) appeared in 2003.
Jay A. Gertzman is Professor Emeritus at Mansfield University. He is the author of A Descriptive Bibliography of "Lady Chatterley's Lover" and Bookleggers and Smithhounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920–1940. He is currently writing a biography of Samuel Roth, using an archive donated to Columbia University by Roth's grandchildren.
Cynthia Hornbeck is a doctoral student in Classics at the University of Minnesota, having received her master's in English at the University of Utah. She is currently investigating the relationship between Ovid's Metamorphoses and Finnegans Wake.
Frank Kerins teaches at Fordham University. From a student of the English Renaissance, publishing on Donne, Jonson, and Elizabethan satire, he has evolved into a student of the Irish Literary Renaissance, especially Joyce. Over the past decade, he has taught an interactive class for freshmen focusing on Dubliners. He is currently completing a monograph on that work and working on a study of Shakespeare the man in Ulysses.
Philip Kitcher is John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. He has written ten books and many articles on a wide range of topics. His most recent book is Joyce's Kaleidoscope: An Invitation to "Finnegans Wake."
Jennifer Burns Levin teaches literature in the Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon. She received her Ph.D. in 2009 from the University of California, Irvine, where she completed a dissertation entitled "Literary Masochism and Representations of Sexualized Pain in the Modern Imagination." As the 2008–9 Joyce Library Fellow at SUNY Buffalo, she researched Joyce's erotic sources and representations of sexuality in Little Magazines. She also served as research assistant for the Norton Critical Edition of Joyce's "Dubliners" and for Ulysses (Ireland into Film), both edited by Margot Norris. Her article on early-twentieth-century penny weeklies and Joyce is forthcoming in James Joyce Quarterly. [End Page 306]
Erika Mihálycsa is Assistant Professor at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj, Romania, where she also received her Ph.D. in 2008. Her dissertation explores linguistic poetics in the fiction of Joyce, Beckett, and Flann O'Brien. She has published articles on the narratological aspects of the work of these writers, as well as on Joyce in translation. Her field of research includes modern and contemporary British and Irish fiction and drama, poststructuralist literary theory, translation theory, and contemporary theories of art. She has translated a number of modern and contemporary...
