Vicki Mahaffey Published by: Bucknell University Press Part of James Joyce’s genius was his ability to find the poetry in everyday life. For Joyce, even a simple object like a table becomes magical, “a board that was of the birchwood of Finlandy and it was upheld by four dwarfmen of that country but they durst not move more for enchantment.”
» Read moreWorking at the Zurich James Joyce Foundation, making full use of the library, archives and activities, and exchanging ideas with Joyceans as well as translator colleagues from around the world while staying at Translation House Looren:The two institutions invite applications for the Joyce Scholarship and Looren Residency 2025 offered by the Friends of the Zurich James Joyce Foundation and Translation
» Read moreJoyce Studies Annual Special Cluster The transnational turn in modernist studies has helped generate important scholarly works— Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community (Jessica Berman, Cambridge UP, 2001), Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity (edited by Laura Doyle and Laura Winkiel, Indiana UP, 2005), Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation (Rebecca Walkowitz, Columbia UP, 2006), The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms (edited by Mark Wollaeger and Matt Eatough, Oxford
» Read moreEditor: José Ruiz Mas | Tirant Editorial A new edition of one of James Joyce’s least known works, “Pomes Penyeach” has just been published. It is based on the poetic translation into Spanish of the thirteen “pomes” originally published in 1927, a collection to which are added three other poems (“The Holy Office”, “Gas from a Burner” and “Ecce Puer”) that
» Read moreJoyce and Us Conference dates: 30-31 January 2025 DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: November 9, 2024 Keynote speakers: Organisers: Franca Ruggieri, Fabio Luppi, Enrico Terrinoni, Serenella Zanotti The James Joyce Italian Foundation invites proposals for the Sixteenth Annual Conference in Rome to celebrate Joyce’s 144th birthday. Richard Ellmann famously wrote that “we are still learning to be James Joyce’s contemporaries” and many decades
» Read moreEstablished by Dr. Joseph Valente, UB Distinguished Professor, Department of English, the Dr. John Bishop Memorial Visiting Scholar Fund award provides up to $2,000 for visiting scholars and graduate students whose research is centred on the writings of James Joyce, Modernism, Joyce-related research, Sylvia Beach, Modernist publishers, Modernist genetic criticism, Joyce’s literary circle, his literary colleagues, or his influences. This fund
» Read moreThe James Joyce Society invites you to join them in a chapter-by-chapter reading of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, starting Feb. 13. Our guest facilitators for the group include Shinjini Chattopadyay, Gregory Erickson, Mike Opest, and Bob Spoo. Open to all, regardless of your experience reading Joyce. More information, schedule, and registration here: https://joycesociety.com/readinggroups
» Read moreThe deadline for proposals for the International James Joyce Symposium has been extended to Friday 16 February. ‘Across the Waters’, the 29th Joyce symposium, will be hosted by the University of Glasgow from 14 to 19 June 2024. Proposals for both individual papers and fully-formed panels on any theme related to the life, work, and reception of James Joyce are invited. If you would like to respond to
» Read moreYoung scholars, particularly students engaged in a specific project, are invited to apply for The Friends of the James Joyce Foundation Scholarship 2024 and spend one or two months at the Foundation, making full use of the library facilities and archives as well as exchanging ideas with residents and visiting experts. The scholarships are intended for researchers with a well-advanced
» Read moreACROSS THE WATERS14–19 June 2024University of Glasgow For James Joyce, as for many Irishmen and women, Glasgow was the first city he saw beyond his native shores. During the Summer of 1894, Joyce crossed to Scotland from Dublin on a Duke Line steamer with his father. It was also the city where his last book, Finnegans Wake, was printed by the
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