PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH

Experience

2020-Present

Visiting Lecturer, Tampere University, Finland

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2015

Carole and Gordon Segal Visiting Professor of Irish Literature, Northwestern University

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2005

Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature, University of Antwerp

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1987-Present

Professor of English, The Ohio State University (Emeritus)

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2012-2016

President, International James Joyce Foundation

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2004–Present

Series Editor, Florida James Joyce Series

 

TEACHING AWARDS

Undergraduate Professor of the Year (2007)

Arts Professor of the Year, Antwerp (2005)

Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring (2003)

Outstanding Teaching Award of the College of Arts & Sciences (2000)

Graduate Professor of the Year (2000)

 

1983

B.A. HARVARD UNIVERSITY

1987

PH.D. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

 

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

 

PUBLICATIONS

At Fault: Joyce and the Crisis of the Modern University (2018)

Bronze by Gold: The Music of Joyce (2001)

The Dublin Helix: The Life of Language in Joyce's Ulysses (2000)

A Purgatorial Flame: Seven British Writers in the Second World War (1990)

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Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eon of the gods.

"Oxen of the Sun"

 
 

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