Notes on Contributors
Valérie Bénéjam
teaches English literature at Nantes University. A former student of the École Normale Supérieure, she has written extensively about Joyce. She has coedited with John Bishop a collection of articles on the issue of Joyce’s representations, across his work, of spatiality and space (Making Space in the Works of James Joyce, Routledge 2011). A collection on Joyce and cognitive sciences, co-edited with Sylvain Belluc, Cognitive Joyce, was published with Palgrave-Macmillan (2018). She is currently completing a study of the role of theatre and drama in Joyce’s fiction (Joyce’s Theatrical Poetics), and working on a new edition of Dubliners that will incorporate its original punctuation for dialogue.
Niels Caul
holds a PhD from University College Dublin. His monograph James Joyce’s Early Works in Ireland’s Textual Cultures will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2025. He has published in the James Joyce Quarterly, Irish University Review and Irish Studies Review. He has presented at James Joyce Symposia, the Dublin James Joyce Summer School. His curatorial work includes the exhibitions “Revolutionary Dublin’s Literary Networks: C. P. Curran, Helen Laird, and James Joyce’s Ulysses” in UCD’s Special Collections and “Literary Cities: Edinburgh” in Museum of Literature Ireland.
Tim Conley
is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Brock University in Canada. He has written and edited several books on Joyce, the most recent of which is The Varieties of Joycean Experience (Anthem, 2021).
Jonathan Ezra Goldman
is Professor, Department of Humanities, New York Institute of Technology. He is the author of New York in the Age of Gatsby: Hidden Histories and Figures on the Margins of 1920s NYC (SUNY Press, 2025), Modernism is the Literature of Celebrity (U. of Texas Press, 2011), editor of Joyce and the Law (U. of Florida Press, 2017), and co-editor of Modernist Star Maps (Routledge, 2010). He has published widely about nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature alongside movies, music, modernism, celebrity, race, sports, comics, and the law. His work about Joyce specifically includes guest-editing and contributing to the James Joyce Quarterly, and essays in The Modernist Review, The Cambridge Companion to “Ulysses”, James Joyce Broadsheet, Modernism/modernity Print- Plus, The Village Voice, James Joyce Literary Supplement, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, The Paris Review, Revista Cult, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He is president of the James Joyce Society.
Corentin Jégou
is a lecturer in anglophone postcolonial literature at Nantes University. He has published articles on Derek Walcott and contributed to the forthcoming volume The Wanderings of Modernism (Clemson University Press).
Onno Kosters
is Associate Professor of English Literature and Translation Studies at Utrecht University. His teaching and research fields are English and Anglo-Irish literature 1700–present (with specific attention to James Joyce and Samuel Beckett) and Translation Studies. His doctoral dissertation on James Joyce (Ending in Progress: Final Sections in James Joyce’s Prose Fictions) was published in 1999. He has published widely on Joyce, Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, Weldon Kees, and many others. Kosters is a published poet, and a translator of prose and poetry into Dutch, among others of Samuel Beckett (Watt), Seamus Heaney (District and Circle), Patti Smith (A New Jerusalem), and Ocean Vuong (Time is a Mother). He is currently working on a retranslation of The Waste Land into Dutch.
Seungho Lee
is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Institute of Technology. His dissertation, Post-Peripatetic Modernism: Walking, Experience, and Environment in E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, and D. H. Lawrence, explores ecocriticism and literary modernism, focusing on the theme of peripatetic walking in nature. His ongoing research examines the intersection of walking and modernism, as seen in his essay, “Ecosexuality and Otherness in D. H. Lawrence’s The Trespasser,” published in D. H. Lawrence Studies (2023), and in his current work on Joyce’s “A Painful Case.” As a Joycean and scholar of Irish literature, he has forthcoming book reviews in James Joyce Literary Supplement and James Joyce Quarterly.
Timothy Martin
is Professor of English Emeritus at Rutgers University. He has published extensively on Joyce and is currently working on a study of the culture of mourning in Ulysses.
Eimear McBride
grew up in the west of Ireland and studied acting at Drama Centre London. Her debut novel, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, received the inaugural Goldsmiths Prize, the Baileys Prize for Women’s Fiction, Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, the Desmond Elliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Her second novel, The Lesser Bohemians, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize, Irish Novel of the Year and the RSL Encore Award. She occasionally writes and reviews for the Guardian, TLS, the New Statesman and the New York Times Book Review.
Stephanie Nelson
is Professor in the Department of Classical Studies and in the Core Curriculum at Boston University. She teaches widely in Greek and Latin literature and the Classical tradition and has written on subjects from Plato and aesthetic theory to translation and literary reception. She is the author of monographs on Hesiod and Aristophanes as well as Time and Identity in Ulysses and the Odyssey University Press of Florida, 2022). Amid other projects she is currently working on an edited volume for Brill entitled Time and Measure.
Mark O’Connell
is an award-winning Irish writer. His first book, To Be a Machine, won the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize. In 2019, he became the first ever non-fiction writer to win the prestigious Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. His second book, Notes From an Apocalypse was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize. He is a contributor to the New York Review of Books, the Irish Times, and his work has appeared in The New Yorker.
Cathryn Piwinski
is a PhD candidate in the English Department at Rutgers University, where she works on twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction, genre fiction, the Anglophone publishing industry, and reception history. Her dissertation focuses on the production of postwar American novels, examining the formal and thematic exchange between literary fiction and science fiction. She has published on James Joyce, Mark Z. Danielewski, world literature, and television. She is the current Vice President of the James Joyce Society.
Emily Schuck
teaches rhetoric, composition, and creative writing at University of La Verne. She has contributed to the archival project NY1920 and the encyclopedia entry for Joyce in Literature Criticism, served as editor in chief of Foothill Poetry, and hosted the podcast Poets at Work. In 2024, she received the International James Joyce Foundation scholarship. Her current project is titled Hearing “Finnegans Wake”, an exploration of listening to Joyce in new contexts.
Sam Slote
is Professor in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin. He is the co-author of Annotations to James Joyce’s “Ulysses” (Oxford, 2022).
Barry A. Spence
is Senior Lecturer in the Programs in Comparative Literature and Film Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. For the last eleven years, he has also taught in the Department of Classical Languages and Literatures at Smith College. His research focuses on modernism, particularly the areas of literature, film, and theatre, ancient Greek tragedy, Homeric epic, and film philosophy and theory.