Biography
Taught for 27 years at the University of Pennsylvania. Retired as a full professor in line for a named chair (everything had been awarded but the name).
Held Chair of Modern Literature at the University of York, UK, for two years before moving to Illinois.
Education
University of Texas at Austin, with highest honors and Phi Beta Kappa.
Princeton University, M.A. and Ph.D.
Awards and Honors
Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Highlighted Publications
My forthcoming book, The Joyce of Everyday Life, will be published by Bucknell University Press in the spring of 2024. lt celebrates the power of language to preserve and multiply lived experiences across time and space, with chapters such as these: On Beds, On Dirty Sheets, On Salmon, On Fat, On Writing by Hand, On Letters, On Glass, On Closing and Opening.
My essay on "Penelope," "Who Resembles Molly Bloom?", was published in July of 2023 in the Joyce Studies Annual celebration of the centenary of Ulysses, ed. by Moshe Gold and Keri Walsh.
In December of 2022, a collection that I edited with Joseph Valente and Kezia Whiting was published: Joycean Possibilities: a Margot Norris Legacy (Anthem Press).
Also in 2022 I published the essay on the "Nausicaa" episode of Ulysses for The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses, ed. Catherine Flynn.
In press is an essay for Joyce and Race, ed. Malcolm Sen and Julie Weng (Cambridge University Press, 2024).