Adam James Cuthbert
is currently working on a Ph.D. in English at the University of Dundee. His thesis examines the ways in which William Wordsworth and Charles Dickens prefigured and anticipated James Joyce’s cinematic representations of the stream of consciousness in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Ulysses (1922), in particular through their employment of prototypes of the “camera-eye” technique. He served an AHRI Doctoral Fellowship with the Centre for Critical and Creative Cultures at the University of Dundee, and received an international scholarship to attend the 26th International James Joyce Symposium at the University of Antwerp.
Anne Marie D’Arcy
is Associate Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature and Language at the University of Leicester, and Visiting Research Fellow at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. She has published a number of articles on Joyce’s treatment of such topics as libel law, freemasonry, medieval Irish placelore, Dublin’s water supply, the 1932 Eucharistic Congress, and “Araby” as a grail quest. She co-curated an exhibition in Marsh’s Library, Dublin: “James Joyce: Apocalypse and Exile” (2014–15), which is now online. She is currently completing Joyce and the Irish Middle Ages: Saints, Sages, and Insular Culture, which is the first monograph devoted to Joyce’s engagement with the Insular period, specifically the influence of Irish learning and artistry on Britain and the Continent from the sixth to the twelfth centuries, c. “566 A.D.” (FW 13.36; 14.7) to “1132 or 1169” (FW 391.2).
Tiana M. Fischer
is a doctoral researcher and Irish Research Council postgraduate scholar at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her thesis investigates theories of mediation and “revisionary” aesthetics in the works of James Joyce, employing a media-philosophical, cultural-historical, and phenomenological perspective. Tiana has published a book chapter and journal articles on late romantic and modernist aesthetics. She is also an active contributor to the initiative Modernist Studies Ireland, whose monthly research seminar Works in Progress she currently co-organises.
Damon Franke
is an Associate Professor of English at USM Gulf Coast, where he teaches a wide-variety of courses on literature, writing, and critical analysis. He is the
Yaeli Greenblatt
is a Hoffmann fellow and Ph.D. candidate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research interests include the materiality of the modernist image, typography, illustrations and graphic novels. Her articles and reviews have appeared in the James Joyce Supplement, James Joyce Quarterly and The Parish Review. Forthcoming is her chapter in Flann O’Brien: Gallows Humour with Cork University Press. Yaeli founded and runs the Jerusalem Finnegans Wake Reading Group.
Thomas Gurke
is a lecturer at the University of Koblenz-Landau and has a degree in English Literature and Musicology. His Ph.D.-dissertation focused on the intersemiotic, aesthetic and affective dynamics of music and literature in the texts of James Joyce and is currently under consideration as a monograph for the Florida James Joyce Series at the University Press of Florida. He has published on James Joyce, Intermediality, Short Fiction and Ecology. His current book-project explores frames of authorship and writing in “narratives of addiction”.
Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes
is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History, University of Amsterdam and academic director, Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture. Until 2014 she was Professor of Iconology in Belfast. She studied in Heidelberg, London and Cologne, where she gained her Ph.D. (researched as Joyce Foundation Scholar, Zurich). She held an Irish Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship, UCD. Her books include: Brian O’Doherty/Patrick Ireland: Word, Image and Institutional Critique (ed., Valiz 2017); Post-War Germany and “Objective Chance”: W.G. Sebald, Joseph Beuys and Tacita Dean (Steidl, 2011); James Joyce als Inspirationsquelle für Joseph Beuys (Olms, 2001); and Joyce in Art (Lilliput, 2004). She has curated exhibitions internationally.
Sangam MacDuff
is working on logic and modern literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. He read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, completed a Masters in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh,
John McCourt
is Professor of English literature at the University of Macerata. He is a specialist in Joyce Studies and in 19th- and 20th-century Irish literature. The co-founder of the Trieste Joyce School (1997), he is widely published and best known for James Joyce: A Passionate Exile (Orion Books, 2000) and The Years of Bloom: Joyce in Trieste 1904–1920, (Lilliput Press, 2000). Most recently, he published Writing the Frontier Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland (Oxford University Press, 2015) and edited Reading Brendan Behan (Cork University Press, 2019).
John Morey
is in the final year of his Ph.D. at Royal Holloway, University of London, supervisor Professor Finn Fordham. His doctoral thesis considers the intersection of the lingual, the musical and the disabled in Finnegans Wake. He is particularly concerned with “disability aesthetics” and how Joyce uses linguistic involutions to imitate music. He has delivered papers at the James Joyce Italian Foundation Conference, Rome, 2018, and the International James Joyce Symposium, Antwerp, 2018. He had an article published in Joyce Studies in Italy, 2018, entitled “The Joys of Disabled Internal Exile in Finnegans Wake”.
Katherine O’Callaghan
lectures on James Joyce, modernism, Irish literature, and the role of music in novels at Mount Holyoke College. In Fall 2019 she moves to the English department at UMass Amherst. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the International James Joyce Foundation. She received her Ph.D. on the topic of Joyce and Music from University College Dublin. Recent publications include her edited collection Essays on Music and Language in Modernist Literature: Musical Modernism (Routledge, 2018). Forthcoming publications include “The Riddle of the Brocken Spectre: Reading Finnegans Wake on the top of Croagh Patrick” in the James Joyce Quarterly.
Derek Pyle
is the director of Waywords and Meansigns, an international project setting Finnegans Wake to music. Featuring 150+ artists from 17 countries, all audio
Emma-Louise Silva
finalized her Ph.D. at the Centre for Manuscript Genetics in September 2019. Her doctoral dissertation aims to reassess the so-called “inward turn” of James Joyce’s modernist fiction by applying the scaffolded mind hypothesis, as formulated in contemporary philosophy of mind, within a framework that leans on genetic criticism and cognitive narratology. She received a scholarship from the International James Joyce Foundation to attend the 2019 North American James Joyce Symposium and is currently combining her role as a lecturer at the University of Antwerp’s Department of Literature, with a postdoctoral position involving the coordination of the Pillar 1 Science and Technology Roadmap for the Time Machine Project.
Sam Slote
is an Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of Joyce’s Nietzschean Ethics (Palgrave, 2013) and is the co-editor, with Luca Crispi, of How Joyce Wrote “Finnegans Wake” (Wisconsin, 2007). In addition to Joyce and Beckett, he has written on Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Raymond Queneau, Antonin Artaud, Dante, Mallarmé, and Elvis. His volume “Annotations to James Joyce’s Ulysses” will be published in 2020.
Sara Spanghero
obtained her Ph.D. in English Literature at the Georg-August University of Göttingen (en co-tutelle with the University of Trieste) in 2018. Her doctoral thesis is entitled “Sea Changes: Representations of Fluid Adolescence through Literature and Cinema”, and focusses largely on a comparative analysis of Stephen Dedalus and Antoine Doinel. She has been a member of the interdisciplinary Research Training Group “Dynamics of Space and Gender” and of the Junior Research Group “Multiple Modernities” at the University of Göttingen. In Göttingen she earned an M.A. in English Philology in 2011, after having concluded her B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Trieste in 2009.
is professor emeritus of English and comparative literature at the University of Geneva. A trustee of both the International James Joyce Foundation and the Zurich James Joyce Foundation, he has held visiting appointments at the universities of Basel, Zurich, Innsbruck, and Iceland, as well as at the Bodmer Foundation in Switzerland. Among his books are Conflicts in Consciousness (on T.S. Eliot), The Rhetoric of Empire, Joyce and the Scene of Modernity, Architecture and Modern Literature and, most recently, Frankenstein, créé des ténèbres.
Dirk Van Hulle
is Professor of Bibliography and Modern Book History at the University of Oxford and director of the Centre for Manuscript Genetics at the University of Antwerp. With Mark Nixon, he is co-director of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (www.beckettarchive.org), series editor of the Cambridge UP series “Elements in Beckett Studies” and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Beckett Studies. His publications include Textual Awareness (2004), Modern Manuscripts (2014), Samuel Beckett’s Library (2013, with Mark Nixon), The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett (2015), James Joyce’s Work in Progress (2016), the Beckett Digital Library and a number of volumes in the “Making of” series (Bloomsbury) and genetic editions in the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project, which won the 2019 Prize for a Bibliography, Archive or Digital Project of the Modern Language Association (MLA).