STEVEN BOND's primary work is in the area of Joyce and philosophy, specifically the possibility
that Joyce's covert references to Descartes were a positive influence on the early Beckett.
He has published one article on Rosicrucianism in a special Beckett issue of Miranda and has an article
on cartomancy (a joint piece with Ronan Crowley) forthcoming in Genetic Joyce Studies.
Two more articles illustrating the Descartes/Joyce/Beckett connection are currently being published
in the Journal of Modern Literature and Nordic Irish Studies.
JESSE CHASE is a conceptual poet from cornwall, ontario, canada. he formerly studied electro acoustics
in canada and now explores linguistic babylon and themes of oppositional identities in joyce and culture.
BRIAN GARVEY is a lecturer in philosophy at Lancaster University. He has published articles on
psychoanalysis, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion and philosophy of science.
IDA KLITGAARD holds a position as Associate Professor in English at the
Department of Culture and Identity, Roskilde University in Denmark.
She has previously published on James Joyce, Virginia Woolf,
translation studies and plagiarism. Her major publication is the
Habilitation Doctorate thesis Fictions of Hybridity: Translating Style
in James Joyce's Ulysses (Odense: University Press of Southern
Denmark, 2007).
ANDREW V. McFEATERS teaches Irish and modern British literature at Florida State University.
His research interests include modernism, avant-gardism, and Irish cultural studies, with specific interest
in the works of James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, and Flann O'Brien.
GINETTE MICHAUD is a Professor in the Département des littératures de langue française at the
Université de Montréal. She is the author of essays on Roland Barthes, James Joyce and Jacques Ferron,
and has devoted a number of studies to the works of Jacques Derrida, Helene Cixous and Jean-Luc Nancy.
She is a member of the international editorial Committee in charge of the edition of Jacques Derrida's
Seminar, and has coedited the first two volumes of the Séminaire La bete et le souverain.
GREGORY O. SMITH is Lecturer in English at the Ohio State University. He co-authored a webtext on teaching
literature through digital media in Kairos and has an article on Alfred Hitchcock and Englishness forthcoming
in Film & History. His current research is on modernism, social class, and self-culture. He was administrative
assistant of the International James Joyce Foundation from 2007 to 2009, where he became intimately acquainted
with the friends (and finances) supporting the Joyous Industry.