NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
- DEREK ATTRIDGE teaches in the English
Department, and directs the
Graduate Program in English, at Rutgers University (New
Brunswick). His books
include Peculiar Language: Literature as Difference from the
Renaissance to
James Joyce (1988) and Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction
(1995). He
co-edited, with Daniel Ferrer, Post-structuralist Joyce:
Essays from the
French (1984), and edited The Cambridge Companion to
James Joyce (1990).
He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the
International James Joyce
Foundation.
- MORRIS BEJA is Professor of English at
the Ohio State University. He
is Executive Secretary and past President of the International
James Joyce
Foundation and has directed several international Joyce
symposia. He is the
author of many essays on Irish, British, and American
literature, as well as
film. Among his books are Epiphany in the Modern Novel
(1971), Film and
Literature (1979), and James Joyce: A Literary Life
(1992). He has edited
a number of volumes of essays, including ones on Joyce, Virginia
Woolf,
Samuel Beckett, and Orson Welles. He is currently preparing a
scholarly
edition of Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway.
- MICHAEL DITMORE teaches in the English
Department at the University
of California (Berkeley). He is Director of the James Joyce
Centre at DU-MOO
(a virtual university supported by a grant from the
Annenberg/CPB Project at:
http://www.du.org/places/du). He is currently completing his PhD
dissertation: TThe Postmetaphysical Novels of James Joyce and
Virginia
Woolf.U
- LAWRENCE JAMES teaches British and
Australian Literature and
Critical Theory at Charles University (Prague) and is a
contributing editor
for the quarterly literary review Trafika. He has
recently published essays
on Woolf, Shakespeare, Marlowe and Livy, and has co-edited two
anthologies of
contemporary writing, Infernal Cinders (1993), and The
Zone (1994). He is
also an editor of HJS.
- MICHAEL O'SHEA is Professor and Chair
of English at Newberry
College (South Carolina). He is the author of James Joyce and
Heraldry and
numerous articles on Joyce and Shakespeare. He is the editor of
Studies in
Short Fiction.
- THOMAS JACKSON RICE is Professor of
English at the University of
South Carolina. He is the author of several recent articles on
Joyce, Iris
Murdoch and contemporary science. He has just completed his
eighth book,
Joyce, Chaos, and Complexity, a study of the manifold
relations among
JoyceUs fiction and developments in twentieth-century
mathematics and
physics.
- ALAN R. ROUGHLEY is Senior Lecturer in
English and Communication
Studies at the University of New England (Armidale). He has
recently directed
a film version of Joyce's "The Sisters" for an interactive
CD-Rom program
designed to introduce students to textual analysis. He is the
author of
James Joyce and Critical Theory and numerous essays on
Joyce and
Philosophy. He also acts and writes poetry and fiction. He is an
editor of
HJS.
- FRITZ SENN is Director of the Zurich
James Joyce Foundation and will
host the forthcoming international James Joyce symposium.
- DONALD THEALL is University Professor
Emeritus at Trent University
(Canada). He is the author of The Medium is the Rear View
Mirror:
Understanding McLuhan (1971), Beyond the Word:
Reconstructing Sense in the
Joyce Era of Technology, Culture and Communication (1995)
and numerous
articles on James Joyce, poetics, communication theory, film,
semiotics,
science fiction and the pre-history of cyberculture. He is
currently
completing for publication a book on Joyce and Technoculture and
is
associated with the Cultural Studies Program and the Graduate
Program in
Methodologies at Trent.
- DARREN TOFTS is Senior Lecturer in
Literature at Swinburne
University of Technology (Melbourne). He has published widely in
the areas of
critical and cultural theory, and writes for 21C and
World Art magazines.
His current research interests include the convergence of
literate and
electronic cultures, and in particular the grammatology of
cyberspace.