This just in—a new French #translation of #JamesJoyce 's #Ulysses by Michel and Michela Gribinski, to be published by Les Belles Lettres (bilingual edition) in the very near future 😮 x.com/flr_louis/st...
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A paperback copy of Finnegans Wake - Human and Nonhuman Histories, edited by Richard Barlow and Paul Fagan (Edinburgh University Press, 2024, 2026).
Now available in paperback: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-finnega...
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@standrewsenglish.bsky.social #JamesJoyce
Here is the link to the standalone page of Jinan Ashraf's review of "Finnegans Wake – Human and Non-Human Histories", a collection of essays that @richardalanbarlow.bsky.social and I edited for @edinburghup.bsky.social
Read it here: www.estudiosirlandeses.org/reviews/finn...
"ground-breaking ... comprehensive and wide-ranging ... invites readers and scholars to reconsider the untapped potential of Wake studies.."
Grateful to Jinan Ashraf for reviewing "Finnegans Wake - Human and Nonhuman Histories" for Estudios Irlandeses!
🔗👉 www.estudiosirlandeses.org/wp-content/u...
"Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories", a 2024 essay collection I edited w/ Richard Barlow, is now available to pre-order in a much more affordable paperback edition from @edinburghup.bsky.social! (use code PAPER30 for a further 30%-off discount)
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In case it got lost in the Christmas and New Year's shuffle: re-sharing the link to my new open-access article "H. L. Morrow & Brian O’Nolan on Radio Éireann", published in the Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies' special issue "Flann O'Brien and the Radio"!
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My contribution to "Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century" is accessible as a preview through Google Books:
tinyurl.com/5bftxr6d
Check it out if you fancy.
Cover of The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature, showing a water colour of mourners carrying a coffin towards a ruined church, with a man looking on in the foreground and two windswept, rather Beckettian trees in the background.
Out in February from @livunipress.bsky.social: The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature. The book started as a lockdown tweet. Delighted that it’s finally done! With Bridget English and @drreznicek.bsky.social
Check out these amazing keynotes for Weird Modernisms - and there's still time to propose a paper or panel: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M... @moderniststudies.bsky.social
“substantial...significant…impressive…exemplary…it can and should be read by anyone with an interest in environmental histories as they are explored in Irish writing”
Very grateful to Patrick Lonergan for his generous review of "Finnegans Wake: Human and Nonhuman Histories" in Irish Studies Review
I will deliver an online talk next week on Virginia Woolf's blue cosmopolitanism. The event is on Wednesday, November 12, from 11am to 1pm EST. The event is free, but registration is required.
Huge thanks to Prof. Peter Adkins @peteradkins.bsky.social for organizing this event.
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My internet's been down since Friday, but in the meantime apparently I've had a paper published! Check out “The Letter of the Law: Joyce, Martyrdom, and Wildean Litigation”, Open Library of Humanities, vol. 11, no. 2, 2025. olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
Eliot Studies Annual editorial position The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual is seeking a new editor. Now in its seventh volume, the Annual features the best new scholarship on the poet, dramatist, critic, and editor T. S. Eliot, published once a year by the International T. S. Eliot Society and Clemson University Press in association with Liverpool University Press. The Annual is available on JSTOR Books and University Scholarship Online, as well as Project Muse. Access is provided to all Eliot Society members on the Liverpool UP platform. The new editor will join the existing team as associate editor for an initial term of six months starting January 1, 2026 and become a full-fledged co-editor with the publication of the current volume in July 2026. The total duration of service is three and a half years, through July 2029, and the new editor will assist in the selection of a second co-editor for 2027. The co-editors supervise each volume from the first call for papers through the referee and editorial process, production, and promotion/circulation. The position affords opportunities to develop the journal, impact Eliot scholarship, and build professional relationships. Record of scholarly publication necessary, but not editorial experience; learn on the job. Send CV, writing sample, and letter of application stating qualifications and reason for interest to tseliot.studies.annual@gmail.com by Friday, Nov 21st, 2025.
The Eliot Studies Annual - our Society journal and one of the best places for cutting edge modernist studies scholarship! - is looking for an editor. Please see below for more information and consider applying!
Deadline: Friday November 21, 2025
#modernism #litstudies
RTs much appreciated 🙏
Today is pub day for my third book: Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. It is a handbook on how to read. It argues for the foundational importance of *caring* to thought. It offers an anatomy of close reading's five steps so we can hone the skills to perform them. It argues for why to read
The MHRA has transitioned from Twitter/X and will now use Bluesky to communicate our work. We are excited to contribute to establishing Bluesky as a dynamic, inclusive, and engaging platform for academic exchange and collaboration.
To celebrate this new chapter, we are hosting a book giveaway! 👇
The XXX International James Joyce Symposium will be held in beautiful Kraków next June. See you there?! Here's the call for papers: conference.pais.edu.pl
✨"Fizzing with ideas, 'Finnegans Wake: Human and Nonhuman Histories' offers a revitalizing contribution to Wake studies"✨
Grateful to @woganchris.bsky.social + @modernistudies.bsky.social for this attentive & generous review of our 2024 collection!
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Now Available! STITCH, UNSTITCH: MODERNIST POETRY & THE WORLD OF WORK, by Kristin Grogan.
Use the couple code CUP20 and save 20%! bit.ly/4opXLp8 #ModernistLatitudes @columbiaup.bsky.social
Registration for the 2025 MSA Conference is now open! If you didn't have a chance to submit a paper this year, there's still a chance to participate by registering for a seminar. Seminars are a great opportunity to get feedback on drafts. Seminar topics can be found here:
Registration for MSA 2025 in Boston is now open! Register here before Sept. 20 for the reduced rate: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
Barry Devine and I will be launching Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century on Friday, December 12 from 12:30-2pm online via Zoom. Thanks to the James Joyce Society, New York for sponsoring the event. Please join us! #jamesjoyce
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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS – The International Yeats Society is still accepting submissions for its upcoming 2025 conference in Dublin. For full details and submission guidelines, please visit our website:
internationalyeatssociety.org/conferences/...
Reminder: the deadline for submissions is this Monday, June 16th.
@seveneccles.bsky.social @floridapress.bsky.social Barry Devine and I are pleased to announce that Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century is available for preorder from the University Press of Florida! #jamesjoyce #teachingjamesjoyce #modernism
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I'm thrilled to have a chapter on "Teaching the Wakean Sentence" in "Teaching James Joyce in the 21st Century", available for pre-order from @floridapress.bsky.social
Congrats to the eds @seveneccles.bsky.social & @ellenscheible.bsky.social
Ask your library to order a copy!
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I'm very happy to see my article on Joycean Scholarship & the French translations of #Ulysses published in the new issue of the Romanic Review dedicated to "Joyce and and the Romanic World" (ed. J. Valente), and in such good company! #JamesJoyce #JoyceStudies 📖 read.dukeupress.edu/romanic-revi...
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He is a man of his word.
Tottenham have beaten Manchester United 1-0. They have won the Europa League.
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