CONTRIBUTORS

Valérie Bénéjam is teaching at the University of Nantes, France, as a Maître de Conférences in English Literature. She has written several art- icles on Joyce, and is currently translating her French PhD into English (All About Molly), as well as working on the relation between Joyce’s fiction and the theatre.

Cheryl Herr is professor of English at the University of Iowa. She has published Joyce’s Anatomy of Culture (1986) and co-chaired (with Brandon Kershner) the academic program for the 16th International James Joyce Symposium, held in Rome (1996). She is also the author of Critical Regionalism and Cultural Studies: From Ireland to the American Midwest (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996) and of The Field, in the “Ireland into Film” series (Cork: Cork University Press, 2002. She edited For the Land They Loved: Irish Political Melodramas, 1890–1925 (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press,1991). Her current Joycean interests address social practices in early Joyce and the phenomenology of Finnegans Wake.

R. Brandon Kershner is Alumni Professor of English at the University of Florida. He is the author of three books: Dylan Thomas: The Poet and His Critics (1977), Joyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Literature (1989), and The Twentieth-Century Novel: An Introduction (1997). He is also the editor of the Bedford Books edition of Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1992) and of Joyce and Popular Culture (1996). He has published some thirty articles and book chapters on various aspects of modern literature and culture. Kershner is a member of the Board of Advisory Editors of the James Joyce Quarterly, and was recently elected to the Board of Trustees of the International Joyce Foundation.

Garry Leonard is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto’s Scarborough College. He has authored the books Reading Dubliners Again: A Lacanian Perspective. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press,1993) and Advertising and Commodity Culture in Joyce (Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 1998). He has also published numerous articles and book chapters on modern writers from Joyce to Sylvia Plath and Edith Wharton. With Jennifer Wicke he co-edited the special issue of the James Joyce Quarterly on “Commodity Culture and 214 Contributors

Advertising in Joyce”(1993). His current book manuscript is Making it Now: Modernism/Cinema/Modernity.

Margot Norris is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, where she teaches modern literatures. Her books include Beasts of the Modern Imagination: Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, Ernst, and Lawrence (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985) and Writing War in the Twentieth Century (University of Virginia Press, 2000). She has also published two books on Joyce: The Decentered Universe of “Finnegans Wake” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976) and Joyce’s Web (University of Texas Press, 1992). A new book titled Suspicious Readings of “Dubliners” is forthcoming from University of Pennsylvania Press.

Thomas J. Rice is the author of eight books and over 100 essays, articles, and papers on nineteeth- and twentieth-century British literature, with spe- cial emphasis on modern and postmodern fiction. Currently he is working on studies of the contemporary novel of complexity and of the fiction of Iris Murdoch. In 1997 he received both USC’s most prestigious award for research, the Educational Foundation Award, and the biennial Iris Murdoch Society Prize for original and creative scholarship. He has lectured widely in the United States, Canada, and Europe, and has received both Fulbright and DAAD Fellowships for teaching and research in Germany (1990, 1992). Professor Rice’s most recent book is Joyce, Chaos, and Complexity (University of Illinois Press, 1997).

Paul K. Saint-Amour, Assistant Professor of English at Pomona College, has published articles in Diacritics, Nineteenth-Century Literature, James Joyce Quarterly, and Henry James Review. He is the author of The Copy- wrights: Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination, forthcoming from Cornell University Press, and is at work on a book tentatively entitled Archive, Bomb, Camera: Over the Limits of Late Modernity.

Tracey Teets Schwarze is Assistant Professor of English at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. She is the author of Joyce and the Victorians (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002), as well as several articles on Joyce and nineteenth century culture, which have appeared in Twentieth Century Literature, Joyce Studies Annual, and European Joyce Studies. She is currently at work on a project called On Trial: Sex, Scandal, and Surveillance in Nineteenth Century Britain.