Keynotes:
John McCourt
“Second-Hand News: The Marginalities of Joyce’s Non-Fiction”.
John McCourt teaches at Università Roma Tre. Director of the Trieste Joyce School, he is the author of
James Joyce: A Passionate Exile (New York: St Martin's Press, 2000) and of
The Years of Bloom: Joyce in Trieste 1904-1920. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000). He has been guest editor of the
James Joyce Quarterly and a Trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation. In 2009, his edited collection,
James Joyce in Context, was published by Cambridge University Press and was followed by
Roll Away the Reel World: James Joyce and the Cinema Volta (Cork University Press, 2010).
Emer Nolan
“‘Done with failure?’: Joyce and Ireland at the turn of the twentieth century“
Emer Nolan teaches at NUI Maynooth. She is the author of
James Joyce and Nationalism (1995),
Catholic Emancipations: Irish Fiction from Thomas Moore to James Joyce (2007), and editor of
Thomas Moore: The Memoirs of Captain Rock (2008). She has written essays on Irish literature and criticism in such journals as
The British Journal for Eighteenth-century Studies,
Éire-Ireland and
Field Day Review, and lectured internationally on James Joyce and other Irish writers.
Invited Speakers:
Kevin Barry
Kevin Barry teaches at NUI Galway. He is the editor of the seminal collection of Joyce’s essays,
Occasional, Critical and Political Writing (2001), and has also written on the history of aesthetics and on modern Irish Literature. He will lead a workshop on approaches to the non-fiction.
