The 2022 Trieste Joyce School was held from 26 June to 1 July 2022.
Other social and cultural events that took place over the course of the week included:
Guest Artist
Ruán Magan is an Irish writer, director and producer whose work in drama, documentary, theatre and stadium events reaches audiences of millions throughout the world. Read more[…]
University of Trento
Antonio Bibbò is a lecturer in English and Translation at the University of Trento (Italy). He has lectured at the universities of Genoa, L'Aquila, and Manchester. Read more[…]
Author
Georgina Binnie-Wright holds a PhD from the University of Leeds (2017) and is the author of James Joyce and Photography Read more[…]
Trinity College Dublin
Pat Callan is a historian of early twentieth century Dublin and Ireland. His early research focused on military, educational, and cultural aspects of the period. Read more[…]
University College Cork
Sophie Corser is a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of English at University College Cork. Read more[…]
Aarhus University, Denmark
Ronan Crowley is a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC-funded project Classical Influences and Irish Culture at Aarhus University in Denmark and the Vice President and President-Elect of the International James Joyce Foundation.Read more[…]
Trinity College Dublin
Anne Marie D'Arcy is Visiting Research Fellow at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin and formerly Associate Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature and Language at the University of Leicester. Read more[…]
University of Sheffield
Katherine Ebury is Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at the University of Sheffield. She is the author of Modernism and Cosmology: Absurd Lights (2014) Read more[…]
Champlain College Dublin
Caroline Elbay is a Lecturer and International Internship Programme Director at Champlain College Dublin where she teaches courses in Irish literature; Academic Writing; and Irish music.Read more[…]
Salzburg University
Paul Fagan is a Senior Scientist at Salzburg University, a co-founder of the International Flann O'Brien Society, and a founding general editor of The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies and Production Archives Read more[…]
Trinity College Dublin
Sam Slote is a Professor at Trinity College Dublin and lives in the Liberties in Dublin. Read more[…]
Università per Stranieri di Perugia
Enrico Terrinoni is Chair of English Literature at the Università per Stranieri di Perugia. Read more[…]
University of Trieste
Laura Pelaschiar is programme director of the Trieste Joyce School. She graduated in English language and literature at the University of Trieste with an MA thesis on Laurence Sterne's Sentimental Journey. Read more[…]
University of Macerata
John McCourt is Head of the Department of the Humanities and professor of English literature at the University of Macerata. He is President of the International James Joyce Foundation and a member of the academic board of the International Yeats Summer School. Read more[…]
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Richard Barlow is an Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His articles have appeared in Irish Studies Review, James Joyce Quarterly, and Scottish Literary Review. Read more[…]
Ruán Magan is an Irish writer, director and producer whose work in drama, documentary, theatre and stadium events reaches audiences of millions throughout the world. Recent projects include "Steps of Freedom" (RTÉ, BBC, PBS, ARTE), "100 Years of Ulysses" (RTÉ, ARTE, CCTV), "The Hunger" (ARTE, RTÉ, BBC), "Dunhuang - Edge of the World" (IFA/Tencent), "Pearl Harbor" (Discovery Channel), "1916 - The Irish Rebellion" (RTÉ, APT), "The World Meeting of Families Concert" hosted for Pope Francis. https://www.ruanmagan.com
Antonio Bibbò is a lecturer in English and Translation at the University of Trento (Italy). He has lectured at the universities of Genoa, L'Aquila, and Manchester. He was Honorary Research Fellow at Manchester and Visiting Research Fellow at the Moore Institute (National University of Ireland Galway). As a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow (2014-2017), Dr Bibbò conducted a research project on the reception of Irish literature in Italy. As part of this research, he produced an online database of Irish literature translated into Italian (www.ltit.it), and curated the "Irish in Italy" exhibition (Rome 2016 and 2017; Cork 2019), now online: https://minerva.manchester.ac.uk/irish-in-italy/. He has recently published Irish Literature in Italy in the Era of the World Wars (Palgrave). As a translator he has edited and translated works by Woolf, Defoe, Pound and Wilde.
Georgina Binnie-Wright holds a PhD from the University of Leeds (2017) and is the author of James Joyce and Photography, forthcoming with Bloomsbury's Historicizing Modernism series. She previously co-chaired the University of Leeds' Finnegans Wake reading group and worked as an Editorial Assistant for the James Joyce Broadsheet. In 2021, she was a visiting scholar at the Zurich James Joyce Foundation, where she revised material on Joyce and Lewis Carroll for her academic monograph.
Pat Callan s a historian of early twentieth century Dublin and Ireland. His early research focused on military, educational, and cultural aspects of the period. In recent times, he has turned his attention to the representation of Dublin in Ulysses, and the broadcasting of Joyce's work on the BBC. His Joyce research has appeared in the James Joyce Quarterly; Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television; Studi Irlandesi, and the Dublin James Joyce Journal. Patrick is a visiting research fellow in the Centre for Contemporary Irish History at Trinity College Dublin.
Sophie Corser is a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of English at University College Cork. Before joining UCC, she was a Leverhulme Trust funded Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin (2019-21). Her first monograph, The Reader's Joyce: 'Ulysses', Authorship and the Authority of the Reader will be published by Edinburgh University Press in August, 2022. Sophie works primarily on the practice, theory, and representation of reading in modern and contemporary literature and criticism. At UCC, she is developing her second book project: a study of representations of women reading in contemporary women's writing.
Ronan Crowley is a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC-funded project Classical Influences and Irish Culture at Aarhus University in Denmark and the Vice President and President-Elect of the International James Joyce Foundation. He received his PhD in English from the University at Buffalo, where he spent many years working on the Joyce Collection. He is delighted to join Laura, Richard and John for the 24th Trieste Joyce School and will speak on Alfred Henry Hunter, the man who would be Bloom.
Anne Marie D'Arcy is Visiting Research Fellow at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin and formerly Associate Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature and Language at the University of Leicester. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, and has held lectureships in University College Dublin and National University of Ireland, Maynooth. 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, anti-Semitism, medieval Irish manuscripts (most notably the Book of Kells), the Eucharistic Congress of 1932, and 'Araby' as a grail quest. She was Principal Investigator of an exhibition in Marsh's Library, Dublin: 'James Joyce: Apocalypse and Exile' (2014-15), 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. Anne Marie's talk for the 2022 Trieste Joyce School is titled 'Leopold Bloom: A Mitteleuropean Antichrist?'
Katherine Ebury s Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at the University of Sheffield. She is the author of Modernism and Cosmology: Absurd Lights (2014) and of Modern Literature and the Death Penalty, 1890-1950 (2021) and the co-editor of the edited collection Joyce's Nonfiction Writing: Outside His Jurisfiction (with James Fraser, 2018) and the JJQ special issue 'Joyce and the Nonhuman' (with Michelle Witen, 2021). She has written articles and chapters on topics including modernism, science and technology, representations of law and justice, and animal studies.
Caroline Elbay is a Lecturer and International Internship Programme Director at Champlain College Dublin where she teaches courses in Irish literature; Academic Writing; and Irish music. Committed to the concept of Adult Education, Caroline is also the founder and facilitator of the lifelong learning programme at the Dublin James Joyce Centre where the ever-popular 'Ulysses for All' is celebrating its 10th year alongside the Ulysses centenary celebrations. A graduate in English and Music from St. Patrick's College Drumcondra (Dublin City University), Caroline subsequently undertook postgraduate studies at Trinity College Dublin where she read for both the H. Dip. Ed. and M.Phil (Anglo Irish Literature). She was awarded a PhD by Queen's University Belfast (2016) where her thesis ('Joyce, Bloom, Sex and Character: A Comparative Study') focused on representations of gender, anti-feminism, and anti-Semitism in the works of James Joyce and Otto Weininger. Enjoying a lifelong interest in Irish writers, Caroline was awarded the inaugural National Library of Ireland James Joyce Dedicated Scholarship in 2008. She continues to lecture widely on the works of Irish writers, and particularly James Joyce, both in Ireland and abroad.
Paul Fagan is a Senior Scientist at Salzburg University, a co-founder of the International Flann O'Brien Society, and a founding general editor of The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies and Production Archives. Fagan is the co-editor of Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities (2021) and Stage Irish: Performance, Identity, Cultural Circulation (2021) as well as three edited collections on Flann O'Brien (Contesting Legacies, 2014; Problems with Authority, 2017; Gallows Humour, 2020). He has published articles on Joyce's treatment of metamorphosis, intertextuality, and 'Irish Time', and on the role of punctuation, Hamlet, and nonhuman skin in 'Finnegans Wake'. This is Fagan's third time at the Trieste Joyce School, having previously delivered lectures on 'James Joyce & Hoax-Writing' (2015) and 'The Linguistics of Wakese' (2009). Fagan is currently finalising a monograph on Irish Literary Hoaxes and developing research projects on 'Representations of Nonhuman Skin in Modernist Writing' and 'Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing, 1860s - 1950s'.
Sam Slote is a Professor at Trinity College Dublin and lives in the Liberties in Dublin. He is the author of Annotations to James Joyce's 'Ulysses' (Oxford, 2022), 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.
Enrico Terrinoni is Chair of English Literature at the Università per Stranieri di Perugia. Between 2017 and 2019 he published, with Fabio Pedone, the annotated Italian edition of books III and IV of Finnegans Wake. In 2021 his Italian critical edition with parallel text of Ulysses came out. In 2022 he published a "story" of Joyce's time in Rome: Su tutti i vivi e i morti. Joyce a Roma. He has translated many authors such as Brendan Behan, James Stephens, Oscar Wilde, Michael D. Higgins, George Orwell, Alasdair Gray and Bobby Sands.
Laura Pelaschiar is programme director of the Trieste Joyce School. She graduated in English language and literature at the University of Trieste with an MA thesis on Laurence Sterne's Sentimental Journey. In 1994 she completed her PhD at the University of Bologna with a dissertation on the contemporary Northern Irish novel. She has worked as a translator, translating over 50 books for Mondadori, E.Elle Einaudi Ragazzi, Fazi Editore. Her research focuses mainly on the work of James Joyce and the nexus between Joycean texts, the Gothic tradition and Shakespeare. She published Ulisse Gotico (Pacini Editore) in 2009. She has also published widely on the Northern Irish novel. She teaches English literature and English language at the University of Trieste.
John McCourt is Head of the Department of the Humanities and professor of English literature at the University of Macerata. He is President of the International James Joyce Foundation and a member of the academic board of the International Yeats Summer School. He previously taught at the Università Roma Tre where he was director of CRISIS (the Centre for Research into Irish and Scottish Literature) and at the University of Trieste (where he co-founded the Trieste Joyce School). He is the author of many books and articles on James Joyce and on 19th and 20th century Irish literature including Consuming Joyce: 100 Years of Ulysses in Ireland (Bloomsbury 2022) and Ulisse Guida alla Lettura (Carocci, 2021). He is also the author of The Years of Bloom: Joyce in Trieste 1904-1920 (2000). This volume was translated into Spanish, Japanese, and Hungarian while the Italian version, Gli Anni di Bloom (Mondadori, 2005), won the Comisso Prize. In 2009 his edited collection, James Joyce in Context, was published by Cambridge University Press. In the same year he published Questioni Biografiche: Le Tante Vite di Yeats and Joyce (Bulzoni). This was followed by Roll Away the Reel World: James Joyce and Cinema (Cork University Press, 2010). In 2015 he published Writing the Frontier Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland (Oxford University Press). He recently co-edited Flann O'Brien: Problems with Authority with Paul Fagan and Ruben Borg (Cork University Press, 2017) and Reading Brendan Behan (Cork University Press, 2019). /p>
Richard Barlow is an Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His articles have appeared in Irish Studies Review, James Joyce Quarterly, and Scottish Literary Review. He is the author of The Celtic Unconscious: Joyce and Scottish Culture (Notre Dame University Press, 2017) and Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms (forthcoming with Oxford University Press).