• DEGREES

• Johns Hopkins University, B.A., M.A., 1966 (Writing Seminars)
• Stanford University, M.A., 1968 (English)
• Stanford University, Ph.D., 1972 (English and Comparative Literature)

EMPLOYMENT

• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Stanford University, 1968-69
• Assistant Professor, University of Florida, 1971-76
• Associate Professor, University of Florida, 1976-90
• Professor, University of Florida, 1990-
• Alumni Professor of English, 1999-

• University of Utrecht, Fall 1978
• University College Dublin, Spring 1984
• University of Utrecht, Spring 1994
• University of Utrecht, Spring 2004
  

PERSONAL

• Married, 3 children.
• Hobbies: photography, guitar, racquetball.
• Address: 425 N.E. 6th St.
Gainesville, FL 32601
Phone: 352-335-9495

PROFESSIONAL AND SCHOLARLY ORGANIZATIONS

• SAMLA
• MLA
• International James Joyce Foundation
• American Conference for Irish Studies
• International Association for the Study of Irish Literature

HONORS, AWARDS, RECOGNITION

• Phi Beta Kappa
• Danforth Fellow, 1966-72
• Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1966
• Listed in Directory of American Scholars, Who's Who in South and Southwest.
• First Prize, Florida Poetry Contest, 1978 (judge, David Posner).
• Florida Fine Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship (poetry), 1980.
• Chair, Irish section, SAMLA, 1978.
• Chair, Twentieth-Century British section, SAMLA, 1990.
• Reader of mss., Cornell Univ. Press, Oxford Univ. Press, Cambridge Univ. Press, Duke Univ. Press, PMLA, JML, others.
• Joyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Literature chosen for 1990 American Conference on Irish Studies Award as best work in literary criticism and related fields.
• Chosen as academic coordinator for 1992 Miami James Joyce Conference.
• Member, Board of Advisory Editors, James Joyce Quarterly, 1991-
• Managing Editor, online journal Hypermedia Joyce Studies, 1996-99
• Co-Organizer (with Cheryl Herr) of Academic Program, XVI International Joyce Symposium, "Classic Joyce," Rome, Italy, June 14-20, 1998 .
• Elected to term as Trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation, 1999-2005.
• Named Alumni Professor, 1999-
• Academic Organizer, Sarasota Joyce Birthday Conference, 2002.
• Academic Organizer, XXth International James Joyce Symposium (Budapest, Hungary), June 11-17, 2006 Chosen to co-edit the conference volume, with Tekla Mensnober.
• Elected to term as Trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation, 2006-12.
• Named Colonel Allan R. and Margaret G. Crow Term Professor for 2008.

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RESEARCH GRANTS

• Humanities Council summer research grant, 1973
• NEH summer research grant, 1975
• NEH summer research grant, 1978
• LAS travel grant, to Dublin, Ireland, 1984
• Division of Sponsored Research grant, summer 1986
• Division of Sponsored Research grant, summer 1988
• Division of Sponsored Research grant, summer 1993
(also university nominee for NEH summer research grant).
• Office of Research Technology and Graduate Education grant, summer 1996
• Departmental Research grant, summer 1998
• Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund grant, summer 2002.
• Sabbaticals awarded:  one year, 1980-81; one semester, Fall 1992; one semester, Fall 2003; one semester, Fall 2011.

COURSES TAUGHT:
Freshman English, Writing About Literature, Advanced Composition, Introductory Creative Writing, Intermediate Writing of Poetry, Advanced Writing of Poetry, Graduate Workshop in Writing of Poetry, History of the Lyric, Modern American Poetry, Modern British Poetry, British Literature Since 1850, Twentieth-Century British Literature (senior-level and graduate-level), Twentieth-Century British Novel (senior-level and graduate-level), Anglo-Irish Literature, Graduate Seminar in Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century American Novel (senior-level and graduate-level), Science-Fiction, James Joyce (senior-level and graduate-level), Joyce and Bakhtin (senior-level and graduate-level), Joyce and Cultural Studies (senior-level and graduate-level), Western Literature, Renaissance-Modern (Humanities department).

TEACHING AWARDS:
Teaching Incentive Program award, 1995-96 (first year eligible).
Special award “For Continuing Meritorious Contributions to Undergraduate Research, 1998-99.”

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS:

1. Dylan Thomas: The Poet and His Critics. Chicago: American Library Assn., 1977.

2. Joyce, Bakhtin and Popular Literature: Chronicles of Disorder. Chapel Hill and London: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1989.

3. Editor, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1992. "Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism" series. Author of "Biographical and Historical Background," "Introduction: The Critical Background," Notes, and "Genius, Degeneration, and the Panopticon," a New Historicist essay on Portrait.

4. Editor, Joyce and Popular Culture, and author of "Introduction." Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996. Essays by Derek Attridge, David Glover, Chester G. Anderson, Michael Begnal, Thomas Rice, Stephen Watt, David Hayman, Zack Bowen, Donald Theall, Garry Leonard, Richard Brown, Vincent Cheng, and others.

5. The Twentieth-Century Novel: An Introduction. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1997.

6. Editor, Cultural Studies of Joyce (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2003). [European Joyce Studies #15]. Also author of “Joyce and Cultural Studies” (introduction) and of “Playing for Keeps: Exiles and University College Dublin” in this volume.

7. Editor, 2nd, rev. ed. James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. "Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism" series. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Matrin's Press, 2006.

8. The Culture of Joyce's "Ulysses." New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2010.

9. [Making Other Plans. Manuscript of poetry, in circulation.]

10.  Editor, with Tekla Mecsnober, Joycean Unions.  Amsterdam: Rodopi.  In press.

EDITED JOURNAL ISSUE:

ReOrienting Joyce, special issue of James Joyce Quarterly, vol. 35, No 2/3 (Winter/Spring 1998. Co-Edited with Carol Loeb Shloss. Author of Introduction, “ReOrienting Joyce,” introductory essay, 259-63, and of lead article, “Ulysses and the Orient, 273-96.

CHAPBOOK:

Several Dialogues [poems by Brandon Kershner "with an equal number of photographs by Todd Walker"]. Tucson, AZ: Thumbprint Press, 1980.

 

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS:

1. "Joyce and Stephen Phillips' Ulysses," James Joyce Quarterly 13 (Winter 1976), 194-201.

2. "Time and Language in Joyce's Portrait of the Artist," ELH 43 (1976), 604-19.

3. "James Joyce as Social Historian," Eire 19 1 (August, 1977), 104-12.

4. "Artist, Critic and Performer: Joyce and Wilde on Shakespeare," Texas Studies in Literature and Language 20 (Summer 1978), 216-29.

5. "Dylan Thomas" entry in Stanley Weintraub, ed. Dictionary of Literary Biography 13 (New York: Gale, 1982), "British Dramatists Since WW II," pt. 2, 519-24.

6. "A French Connection: Iris Murdoch and Raymond Queneau," Eire-Ireland 18 (Winter 1983-84), 144-56.

7. "Degeneration: The Explanatory Nightmare," Georgia Review 40 (Summer 1986), 416-44.

8. "Bowen's Oneiric House in Paris," Texas Studies in Literature and Language 28 (Winter 1986), 407-23.

9. "Dialogism and Incremental Repetition in Joyce's Portrait," ELH 53 (Winter 1986), 881-94.

10. "The Reverend J.L. Porter: Bloom's Guide to the East" [note], James Joyce Quarterly 24 (Spring 1987), 365-67.

11. "The Achievement of Richard Ellmann" [essay review of Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde (New York: Knopf, 1988) and Richard Ellmann, Four Dubliners (New York: Braziller, 1987)], Georgia Review 42 (Fall 1988), 617-23.

12. "More French Connections" [essay review, with Ellie Ragland-Sullivan, of Jacques Aubert, ed. Joyce avec Lacan (Paris: Navarin Editeur, 1987)], James Joyce Quarterly 26 (Fall 1988), 115-27.

13. "Joyce and Dujardin's L'Initiation au péché et à l'amour," James Joyce Quarterly 26 (Winter 1989), 213-26.

14. "Joyce and Popular Literature: The Case of Corelli," in Diana A. Ben-Merre and Maureen Murphy, eds. James Joyce and His Contemporaries (New York: Greenwood Press, 1989), 51-58.

15. "Yeats/Bakhtin/Orality/Dyslexia," in Leonard Orr, ed. Yeats and Postmodernism (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Univ. Press, 1991).

16. "More Evidence on Breen's Telegram" and "Mr Duffy's Apple" [notes], James Joyce Quarterly 29 (Winter 1992), 406-08.

17. "Dances with Historians" [essay-review of ten books on relations between literature and history], Georgia Review 45 (Fall 1991), 581-600.

18. "The Strongest Man in the World: Joyce or Sandow?" James Joyce Quarterly 30, no. 4 (Summer/Fall 1993), 667-94 (special issue on “Joyce and Advertising,” eds. Garry Leonard and Jennifer Wicke).

19. "Modernism's Mirror: The Sorrows of Marie Corelli," in Transforming Genres: New Approaches to British Fiction of the 1890s, eds. Meri-Jane Rochelson and Nikki Lee Manos (New York: St. Martin's P, 1994), 67-86.

20. "Teaching Howard's End through Ulysses through Bakhtin," in Robert Newman, ed.
Pedagogy, Praxis, “Ulysses” (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1995), 153-65.

21. [Interviewed by Dutch journal of critical theory Frame, June 17, 1994.] Aart Balk, “De Minotaurus, dat zijn wij: Een interview met R. Brandon Kershner,” Frame vol. 10, no. 1 (Fall 1995), 28-43.

22. "History as Nightmare: Joyce's Portrait to Christy Brown," in Mark Wollaeger, Victor Luftig, and Robert Spoo, eds., Joyce and the Subject of History. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1996), 27-45.

23. “Modernism and Popular Culture: Joycean and Eliotic Examples,” Papers on Joyce, no. 3 (1997), 9-19.

24. "The Culture of Ulysses," in Vincent Cheng, Margot Norris, and Kimberly Devlin, eds. Joycean Cultures/Culturing Joyces (Newark, NJ: U of Delaware P, 1998), 149-62.

25. “The Artist as Text: Dialogism and Incremental Repetition in Portrait,” reprinted in Philip Brady and James F. Carens, eds. Critical Essays on James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (New York: G. K. Hall, 1998), 231-42.

26 “Framing Rudy and Photography,” Journal of Modern Literature. Vol.22, no. 2 (Winter 1998/99, 265-92.

27. Articles on Modernism, Dialogism, Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist, in Paul Schellinger, ed. Encyclopedia of the Novel (Chicago: Fitzroy-Dearborn, 1998).

28. Articles on Elizabeth Bowen, and Bowen’s Death of the Heart in Paul Schellinger, ed. Encyclopedia of the Novel (Chicago: Fitzroy-Dearborn, 1998).

29. “Comic Dialogics in Ulysses,” in Ton Hoenselaars and Marius Buning, eds. English Literature and the “Other” Languages (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodipi, 1999), 135-44.

30. “The World’s Strongest Man: Joyce or Sandow,” reprinted in Clive Hart et al., eds. Images of Joyce, vol. 1. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1998. 237-52.

31. “Family Resemblances in Dubliners,” in Claudine Raynaud, ed. “Dubliners”: Lectures critiques / Critical Approaches. Tours: GRAAT/British Council in Paris, 2001, 47-52.

32. “Mikhail Bakhtin and Bakhtinian Criticism” and “Notes Toward a Reading of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” in Julian Wolfreys, ed. Introducing Literary Theories: A Guide and Glossary. Edinburgh; Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2001. 19-32.

33. “Framing Rudy and Photography,” reprinted in Morton Levitt, ed. Joyce and the Joycean.s Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 2002. 70-90.

34. “Mikhail Bakhtin” in Julian Wolfreys, ed. The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Modern Criticism and Theor.y Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002, 168-73.

35. “Harold Nicolson’s Visit to Joyce” [note], James Joyce Quarterly, 39, 2 (Winter 2002), 325-30.

36.    “The Reader, the Frame, and Impressionism in Heart of Darkness,” Conradiana, 53, 1-2 (Spring/Summer 2003), 41-48.

37.   “Dialogical and Intertextual Joyce,” in Jean-Michel Rabaté, ed. James Joyce Studies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 183-202.

38.    “Family Resemblances in Dubliners,” in Oona Frawley, ed. A New and Complex Sensation: Essays on Joyce’s “Dubliners.” Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2004, 168-73.

39.     Articles on Joyce and Bakhtin in M. Keith Booker, ed. Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005.

40.   Articles on Joyce and Portrait in Gaëtan Brulotte and John Phillips, eds. Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature (New York: Routledge, 2006).

41.    “‘An Encounter’: Boys’ Magazines and the Pseudo-Literary” from Joyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Literature reprinted in Dubliners: Contemporary Critical Essays, ed. Andrew Thacker (New York: Palgrave, 2006), 117–34.

42.     “Joyce, Music, and Popular Culture.”  A Companion to Joyce Studies. Ed. Richard Brown. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008: 270–85.

43.    “Modernity, Postmodernity and Popular Culture in Joyce and Eliot.”  Modernism. 2 vols. Eds. Astradur Eysteinsson and Vivian Liska.. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2007. 607–17.  This volume won the Book Prize of the Modernist Studies Association for 2008.

44.    “Making Them in the One Pot” [note].  James Joyce Quarteerly 46:2 (Winter 2009): 361-62.

45.    “Newspapers and Popular Culture.” John McCourt, ed. Joyce in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 299-309.

48. [Article on story "Grace" co-authored with Mary Lowe Evans.  Ed. Vicki Mahaffey, book of collaborative essays on Dubliners.  In press.]

49. [ "Temporalities of Ulysses," submitted to Samuel Slote for proposed volume on Tour Symposium papers.]

REVIEWS:

1. "Joyce Demythologized," rev. Arthur Power, Conversations with Joyce (New York: Harper and Row, 1974) and William M. Chace, ed. Joyce: A Collection of Critical Essays (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1974). Sewanee Review 84 (Winter 1976), x-xiii.

2. "Joyce Redivivus," rev. Richard Ellmann, The Consciousness of Joyce (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1977), Marilyn French, The Book as World: James Joyce's "Ulysses" (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1976), and C.J. Peake, James Joyce: The Citizen and the Artist (Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press, 1977). Sewanee Review 86 (Winter 1978), xx-xxiv.

3. On Jack Myers, ed. A Trout in the Milk: A Composite Portrait of Richard Hugo (Lewiston, ID: Confluence Press, 1982). Devil's Milhopper 8 (Spring 1983), 21-24.

4. On James Boyd White, When Words Lose Their Meaning (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1984). Georgia Review 39 (Spring 1985), 199-201.

5. On Ulick O'Connor, All the Olympians (New York: Atheneum, 1984). Georgia Review 39 (Summer 1985), 451-53.

6. On Clayton Kolb, The Incredulous Reader (Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press, 1984. Georgia Review 39 (Winter 1985), 892-96.

7. On Dillon Johnston, Irish Poetry After Joyce (Notre Dame, IN: Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 1985). Georgia Review 41 (Spring 1987), 218-21.

8. On Tom Moylan, Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination (New York: Methuen, 1986). Georgia Review 41 (Winter 1987), 827-31.

9. On Cheryl Herr, Joyce's Anatomy of Culture (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1986). Georgia Review 42 (Summer 1988), 431-34.

10. On Ludmilla Jordanova, Sexual Visions: Images of Gender in Science and Medicine Between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1989). Georgia Review 44 (Spring-Summer 1990), 326-27.

11. On Morris Beja and Shari Benstock, eds. Coping with Joyce: Essays from the Copenhagen Symposium (Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press, 1989). JEGP 89 (October 1990), 573-76.

12. On David Lodge, After Bakhtin: Essays on Fiction and Criticism (NY: Routledge, 1990), Novel 25 (Winter 1992), 211-13.

13. On Cheryl Herr, For the Land They Loved: Irish Political Melodramas, 1890-1925 (Syracuse: Syracuse Univ. Press, 1991) and Stephen Watt, Joyce, O'Casey, and the Irish Political Theatre (Syracuse: Syracuse Univ. Press, 1991), James Joyce Quarterly 29 (Summer 1992), 858-63.

14. On Christopher Ames, The Life of the Party: Festive Vision in Modern Fiction (Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1991), James Joyce Quarterly 29 (Summer 1992), 863-65.

15. On Richard F. Peterson, James Joyce Revisited (NY: Twayne, 1992), English Literature in Transition 36, no. 2 (1993), 255-58.

16. On David Fuller, James Joyce's "Ulysses" (New York: Twayne, 1992), James Joyce Literary Supplement 7, no. 2 (Fall 1993), 14.

17. On David Pierce, James Joyce's Ireland (New Haven: Yale UP, 1992), English Literature in Transition 36, no. 4 (1993), 539-42.

18. On Brook Thomas, The New Historicism and Other Old-Fashioned Topics (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1991), Novel 27 (Winter 1994) 211-14.

19. On Vincent Cheng and Timothy Martin, eds. Joyce in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992), Modern Fiction Studies 40, no. 1 (Spring 1994), 179-80.

20. On Robert Kiely, Reverse Tradition: Postmodern Fictions and the Nineteenth-Century Novel (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1993), Georgia Review 48, no. 4 (Winter 1994), 825-28.

21. On David Chapman, Sandow the Magnificent: Eugen Sandow and the Beginnings of Bodybuilding (Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1994), James Joyce Quarterly 32, no. 3/4 (spring/summer 1995), 771-74.

22. On Robert D. Newman, Transgressions of Reading: Narrative Engagement in Exile and Return (Durham: Duke UP, 1993), James Joyce Broadsheet no. 46 (February 1997), 2.

23. On Kevin Dettmar, The Illicit Joyce of Postmodernism: Reading Against the Grain (Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1996), James Joyce Literary Supplement vol. 2, no. 2 (Fall 1997), 20.

24. On Neil R. Davison, James Joyce, “Ulysses,” and the Construction of Jewish Identity: Culture, Biography, and “The Jew” in Modernist Europe (NY: Cambridge UP, 1996), English Literature in Transition, vol 41, no. 1 (1998), 105-08.

25. On Garry Leonard, Advertising and Commodity Culture in Joyce (Gainesville: Univ. Press of Gainesville, 1998), Joseph Valente, ed. Quare Joyce (Ann Arbor: Univ, of Michigan Press, 1998), and Karen R. Lawrence, ed. Transcultural Joyce (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998), Novel 33 (Summer 2000), 424-31.

26. On Annette Federico, Idols of Suburbia: Marie Corelli and Late-Victorian Culture (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2000), Clio

27. On Judith Kitchen, The House on Eccles Road (Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2002). James Joyce Quarterly, vol. 40, no. 4 (Summer 2003), 894-97.

            28. On Katherine Mullin, James Joyce, Sexuality and Social Purity (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003). South Atlantic Review,  vol. 70, no.1 (Winter 2005), 172-75.

            29. On Mark Wollaeger, ed. James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: A Casebook (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), James Joyce Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 4 (Sumer 2004), 857-60.


30. On Claire Culleton, Joyce and the G-Men: J. Edgar Hoover’s Manipulation of Modernism (New York: Palgrave, Macmillan, 2004), James Joyce Quarterly, vol.44, no.2 (Winter 2007), 380-83.

            31. On Vike Plock, Joyce, Medicine, and Modernity (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010), James Joyce Literary Supplement vol 24, no. 2 (Fall 2010), 4-5.

  

POETRY:

Selection of poems in Robert Rosenberg, ed. Confessions and Experiments (Baltimore: Linden Press, 1965). Poems in Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, Johns Hopkins Magazine, Charles Street Review, Lion Rampant, Mimeo, Channels, Sequoia, Florida Quarterly, Lotus.

"Letter on a Song," Tableau," "Eating Ortolans," "Bologna, Winter, 1971," Dekalb Literary Arts Journal (1974). “National Poetry Anthology" issue.

"Off Layhill Road," Florida Review, 5 (1976), pp. 19-20.

"Dialogues" (3 poems), Atlanta Gazette 3 (June 1, 1977), p. 5.

"From Dialogues" (3 more poems), Atlanta Gazette 4 (Jan. 13, 1978), p. 5.

"Dream Poem," American Poetry Review 7 (Nov./Dec. 1978), p. 33.

"What It Is," Florida Review 7 (1978), p. 7.

"Dredging," Poetry 138 (Sept. 1981), p. 326.

Eight poems: "The Gift," "3 Dialogues," "A translation," "Falling with Money," "Dropping Falls, Lancaster: Brochure," "My grandmother meant it when she died...," "Doppler at Cedar Key," "Annals of the Invisible Cowboy," Modern Poetry Studies 11, 3 (1983), pp. 199-207.

Three poems: "After the Divorce," "Dream Poem," "Lesson," The Panhandler (Summer 1983) [special Florida Poets issue], pp. 5-7.

"Three dialogues," repr. Morty Sklar & Mary Biggs, eds., Editor's Choice II: Fiction, Poetry and Art from the U.S. Small Press (Iowa City: Spirit That Moves Us Press, 1987), 283-84.

"The Adult Child of the Alcoholic" and "Superossification," Kalliope 10 (1988), pp. 15-17.

"Living Room" and "Tantrum," Tampa Review 1 (1988), pp. 21, 63. These two poems were nominated for a Pushcart Prize in poetry.

"Responsibilities," Georgia Review 44 (Winter 1990), 618.

"Marriage," Chattahoochee Review 12 (Spring 1992), 12.

"Tantrum," "Scotoma," "Responsibilities, "What It Is, " and "Dredging," repr. in Donna J. Long, et. al., eds Isle of Flowers: Poems by Florida's Individual Artist Fellows (Tallahassee: Anhinga Press, 1995), 41-46.

“Virtuoso,” Georgia Review 50 (Summer 1996), 329-30.

“The Eudora Case,” minnesota review ns 48-49 (1999), 14.

“Hunger Artists,” James Joyce Quarterly vol. 36, no. 3 (Spring 1999), 433-34.

“Elegy” and “Nocturne in Cedar Key,” Tampa Review 21 (2001), pp. 62. 63.

"Liberation,"SubTropics 2 (2006): 112.

 

TRANSLATIONS:

• Five poems by Dylan Thomas: "Dealul Ferigii" ("Fern Hill"), "Dupa Funeralii" ("After the Funeral"), "De Aniversarea unei Casatorii" ("On a Wedding Anniversary"), "Douzaeci su Patru di Ani" ("Twenty-Six Years"), "Cocosatul din Parc" ("The Hunchback in the Park"). Co-translated with Corneliu Nicolescu. Tribuna [Roumania] 20 (26 Aug. 1976), p. 8. 
• Three poems by Elly de Waard: "Het is alsof de kleine struiken..." ("It is as if the small shrubs..."), "Drowning is not so pitiful," "De hoofden diep gebogen..." ("Their heads deeply bowed..."). Co-translated with Mary de Jong. Kalliope, 4 (Spring-Summer 1982), pp. 22-24.

"Drowning is not so pitiful" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in translation.
"Drowning is not so pitiful" also appeared in Orbis [London], No. 56 (Spring 1985). 

PAPERS PRESENTED:

1. "Joyce and Popular Consciousness," Irish Discussion Circle, SAMLA, Jacksonville, FL, November 1973.

2. "Joyce and Popular Literature," Southern Popular Culture Assn., Tampa, FL, October, 1975.

3. "Joyce and Wilde on Shakespeare," Irish Studies section, SAMLA, Atlanta, GA, November, 1975.

4. "The Outward Turn of the Science Fiction Novel," Popular Culture Assn. in the South, Knoxville, TN, Oct. 7, 1976.

5. "Queneau's Le Chiendent and Joyce's Ulysses: The Form of Influence," Philological Assn. of the Carolinas, Rock Hill, SC, March 4, 1977.

6. "Murdoch's The Red and the Green: A French Connection," Philological Assn. of the Carolinas, Rock Hill, SC, March 4, 1978.

7. "Le Guin's Left Hand of Darkness: The Alien Self," Popular Culture Assn., Cincinnati, OH, April 21, 1978.

8. "Joyce and the European Pose: The Case of Corelli," Joyce and His Contemporaries conference, Hofstra University, NY, Oct. 23, 1982.

9. "Disguise and the Interrogation of the Sign in Joyce's 'The Sisters,'" University College Dublin Staff Symposium, March 21, 1984.

10. "Historical Dialogism: Supertext and Subtext in 'Eveline,'" International James Joyce Conference, Milwaukee, WI, June 13, 1987.

11. "Breaking the Silence: Joyce's 'The Sisters,'" MMLA, Columbus, OH, Nov. 12, 1989.

12. "Joyce and the East," James Joyce section, MLA, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 27, 1988.

13. "Joyce and the Orient," Irish Studies section, SAMLA, Washington, D.C., Nov. 13, 1988.

14. [Invited Respondent for section on "Joyce and Bakhtin," International James Joyce Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, June 12-16, 1989.]

15. "Joyce or Sandow: The World's Strongest Man," International James Joyce Symposium, Monaco, June 12, 1990.

16. [Subject of "Living Book Review" on Joyce, Bakhtin..., International James Joyce Symposium, Monaco, June 16, 1990.]

17. "Comic Dialogics in Ulysses," Miami Joyce Conference, Feb. 1, 1991.

18. “Yeats, Bakhtin, and Dyslexia,” invited presentation at Loyola College of Baltimore, April 8, 1991.

19. "Genius and Degeneration," Joyce in Vancouver Conference, June 14, 1991. Chaired session, "Joyce and Cultural Studies." Also Respondent in "Historical, Empirical and Theoretical Approaches to Popular Culture in Joyce" session, June 15, 1991.

20. Academic Organizer, "Joyce and Popular Culture" conference ("Miami J'yce"), Univ. of Miami, Jan. 30-Feb. 2, 1992.

21. "The Orient in Ulysses," International James Joyce Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, June 17, 1992.

22. "The Case for a Multicultured Curriculum," Graduate Studies in English Forum, SAMLA, Knoxville, TN, Nov. 13, 1992.

23. "The Culture of Ulysses," California Joyce Symposium, Irvine, CA, July 2, 1993 (part of a special invitational public session on "Joyce, Modernism, and the Social Function of Art").

24. “The Culture of Ulysses,” invited presentation at the Bailey’s James Joyce Annual Summer School, University College, Dublin, July 30, 1993.

25. "James Joyce and Popular Culture," invited presentation at University of Leeds, May 6, 1994.

26. "'Oxen of the Sun': The Secret Passage," invited presentation at Zurich James Joyce Stiftung, May 16, 1994.

27. "Comic Dialogics," invited presentation at Free University of Amsterdam, May 20, 1994.

28. [Interviewed by Dutch journal of critical theory Frame, June 17, 1994.]

29. "'Nice Name He Has': Paul de Kock, Naming, and Sexual Possession," Miami J'yce Conference, U of Miami, Feb. 3, 1995.

30. "Modernism and Popular Culture: Joycean and Eliotic Examples," invited presentation for "Rereading Modernism" conference, Onderzoekschool Literatuurwetenschaap, Nov. 25, 1995, Utrecht, Netherlands..

31. "Rudy and Memoral Photography," Miam J'yce Conference, U of Miami, Feb. 3, 1996.

32. “The Strongman, the Flatulist, and Memorial Photography: Bizarre Popular Culture in Joyce’s Ulysses.” Irish Studies lecture series, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL, Feb. 10, 1997.

33. “Beaufoy’s Mysterious Postcard.” Miami J’yce Birthday Conference, University of Miami, Jan. 30, 1997.

34. “Beaufoy’s Mysterious Postcard.” James Joyce Symposium, University of Toronto (Victoria College), June 14, 1997.

35. “Modernism and Popular Culture,” International Narrative Conference, UF, Gainesville, FL, April 3, 1997.

36. “Irish Orientalism within and without Ulysses,” Miami J’yce Conference, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, Jan. 31, 1998.

37. “There Are Fairies at the Bottom of my Jargon: Framing Rudy and Photography,” International James Joyce Symposium, Rome, Italy, June 18, 1998.

38. “Exiles in Context,” lecture at Third Annual Trieste School, University of Trieste, July 9, 1999.

39. “Playing for Keeps: Exiles and University College Dublin,” lecture at conference, “Nationalism and A National Theatre: 100 Years of Irish Theatre,” Indiana U, Bloomington, IN, May 27, 1999.

40. “Flirting with the City’s University: Exiles and UCD,” lecture at Miami J’yce Conference, University of Miami, Miami, Feb. 5, 1999.

41. “Joyce and Harold Nicolson,” Miami J’yce Conference, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, Feb. 3, 2000.

42. Poetry reading and talk on Joyce, University of Tampa, Tampa, FL, Feb. 24, 2000.

43. Chair, “Joyce/Woolf/Cultural Studies” panel; invited participant, “Modernism and the Reader” seminar. “New Modernisms II” conference (Modernist Studies Association), Philadelphia, PA Oct. 12-15, 2000.

44. “Family Resemblances in Dubliners,” “Dubliners: New Critical Approaches” conference, Université de Tours, Tours, France. Paper delivered by proxy. Nov. 17, 2000.

45. “Post-Millennial Reading: Writing ‘Oxen’,” Miami J’yce Conference, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, Feb. 2, 2001.

46. “Pop Culture Juiced Joyce,” invited talk; also introduction to film of Portrait and reading from Ulysses. Sarasota Bloomsday, June 16, 2001.

47. “I Can See by Your Outfit: Children’s Costume in Ulysses,” Eighteenth International James Joyce Symposium, Trieste, Italy, June 18, 2002. Also panel participant, “The Future of Theory in Joyce,” June 20, 2002.

48. “A Group of Friends” and “The Size of Kansas: Modern Irish Poetry.” Informal talk and keynote speech at Florida State Poets Convention, Deland, FL Holiday Inn, Oct. 11-13, 2002.

49. “Philip Beaufoy, Commercial Fiction, and Ulysses,” James Joyce Annual Summer School, UCD, Dublin, Ireland, July 10, 2003.

50. “Beaufoy, Tit-Bits Magazine, and Ulysses”, Nineteenth International James Joyce Symposium, June 15, 2004, National College of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland. Also Chair of session “The People’s Joyce,” June 18, 2004.

51. “Joyce and Photography,” MLA, “Joyce and Visual Culture” session, Philadelphia, PA, Dec. 30, 2004.

52. Chair, panel on translation of poetry. Other Words: A Conference of Literary Magazines, Independent Publishers, and Writers. Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, March 5, 2005.

53. “Joyce and the Daily News,” 2006 Miami Joyce Birthday Conference, University of Miami, February 3, 2006.

54. “Joyce and the Daily Press,” XXth International James Joyce Symposium, Budapest, Hungary, June 14, 2006. Also delivered welcoming address, Royal Palace of Buda Castle, June 11, 2006.  Conference organizer, with Tekla Mecsnober.

55. "Shaping the Twentieth-Century Novel: Joyce, Beckett, Queneau, and Murdoch"  University of South Folrida, Tampa, FL.  Nov. 15, 2006.  Invited lecture to faculty and participation in graduate class.

56. "Temporalities of Ulysses." XXIst International James Joyce Symposium, Tours, France, June 18, 2008.

57. "Joyce, Newspapers, and the Novel Form."  Invited lecture, University of Miami, Dec. 11, 2008.

58. "The Sands of Pleasure: Prostitution and Modernity."  XXIInd International James Joyce Symposium, Charles University, Prague, June 12, 2010.  Also chaired session on Joyce and Prostitution.

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