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Chris DeVault
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English Professor. #JamesJoyce #Modernism, #IrishLiterature, #IrishStudies. Love books, ‘rasslin, and sports teams that end in spurs. #COYS #WhoDat
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Chris DeVault @devaultchris.bsky.social · Nov 15
So excited to have contributed a chapter to this excellent new publication! #JamesJoyce #IrishLiterature
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I will deliver an online talk next week on Virginia Woolf's blue cosmopolitanism. The event is on Wednesday, November 12, from 11am to 1pm EST. The event is free, but registration is required.

Huge thanks to Prof. Peter Adkins @peteradkins.bsky.social for organizing this event.

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November 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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My internet's been down since Friday, but in the meantime apparently I've had a paper published! Check out “The Letter of the Law: Joyce, Martyrdom, and Wildean Litigation”, Open Library of Humanities, vol. 11, no. 2, 2025. olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
The Letter of the Law: Joyce, Martyrdom, and Wildean Litigation
In James Joyce's Ulysses, both the ‘Cyclops’ episode and the parodic legal proceedings of ‘Circe’ treat sexual deviance as anti-Irish—a feminised foreign invader threatening the heterosexist, hypermas...
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October 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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The Eliot Studies Annual - our Society journal and one of the best places for cutting edge modernist studies scholarship! - is looking for an editor. Please see below for more information and consider applying!

Deadline: Friday November 21, 2025
#modernism #litstudies

RTs much appreciated 🙏
Eliot Studies Annual editorial position The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual is seeking a new editor. Now in its seventh volume, the Annual features the best new scholarship on the poet, dramatist, critic, and editor T. S. Eliot, published once a year by the International T. S. Eliot Society and Clemson University Press in association with Liverpool University Press. The Annual is available on JSTOR Books and University Scholarship Online, as well as Project Muse. Access is provided to all Eliot Society members on the Liverpool UP platform. The new editor will join the existing team as associate editor for an initial term of six months starting January 1, 2026 and become a full-fledged co-editor with the publication of the current volume in July 2026. The total duration of service is three and a half years, through July 2029, and the new editor will assist in the selection of a second co-editor for 2027. The co-editors supervise each volume from the first call for papers through the referee and editorial process, production, and promotion/circulation. The position affords opportunities to develop the journal, impact Eliot scholarship, and build professional relationships. Record of scholarly publication necessary, but not editorial experience; learn on the job. Send CV, writing sample, and letter of application stating qualifications and reason for interest to tseliot.studies.annual@gmail.com by Friday, Nov 21st, 2025.
October 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Today is pub day for my third book: Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. It is a handbook on how to read. It argues for the foundational importance of *caring* to thought. It offers an anatomy of close reading's five steps so we can hone the skills to perform them. It argues for why to read
October 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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The MHRA has transitioned from Twitter/X and will now use Bluesky to communicate our work. We are excited to contribute to establishing Bluesky as a dynamic, inclusive, and engaging platform for academic exchange and collaboration.

To celebrate this new chapter, we are hosting a book giveaway! 👇
March 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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The XXX International James Joyce Symposium will be held in beautiful Kraków next June. See you there?! Here's the call for papers: conference.pais.edu.pl
XXX INTERNATIONAL JAMES JOYCE SYMPOSIUM – Kraków, Poland 15–19 June 2026
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September 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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✨"Fizzing with ideas, 'Finnegans Wake: Human and Nonhuman Histories' offers a revitalizing contribution to Wake studies"✨

Grateful to @woganchris.bsky.social + @modernistudies.bsky.social for this attentive & generous review of our 2024 collection!

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Book Review: Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories
9th September 2025 Christopher Wogan, University of York Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories, ed. Richard Barlow and Paul Fagan (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) Published in 2024, the t…
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September 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Now Available! STITCH, UNSTITCH: MODERNIST POETRY & THE WORLD OF WORK, by Kristin Grogan.

Use the couple code CUP20 and save 20%! bit.ly/4opXLp8 #ModernistLatitudes @columbiaup.bsky.social
August 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Registration for the 2025 MSA Conference is now open! If you didn't have a chance to submit a paper this year, there's still a chance to participate by registering for a seminar. Seminars are a great opportunity to get feedback on drafts. Seminar topics can be found here:
The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
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July 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Registration for MSA 2025 in Boston is now open! Register here before Sept. 20 for the reduced rate: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
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July 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Barry Devine and I will be launching Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century on Friday, December 12 from 12:30-2pm online via Zoom. Thanks to the James Joyce Society, New York for sponsoring the event. Please join us! #jamesjoyce

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Lunchtime Book Launch: Barry Devine and Ellen Scheible: "Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century" — James Joyce Society
Please join the James Joyce Society for our latest installment in our Lunchtime Launch Series : Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century , edited by Barry Devine and Ellen Scheible This ...
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July 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS – The International Yeats Society is still accepting submissions for its upcoming 2025 conference in Dublin. For full details and submission guidelines, please visit our website:

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Dublin Conference | Second Call for Papers – International Yeats Society
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July 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Reminder: the deadline for submissions is this Monday, June 16th.
intyeatssociety.bsky.social International Yeats Society @intyeatssociety.bsky.social · Apr 11
CALL FOR PAPERS – The International Yeats Society is now accepting submissions for its upcoming 2025 conference in Dublin. For full details and submission guidelines, please visit: www.tcd.ie/english/rese...

#CallForPapers #Yeats #TrinityCollege #Dublin
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June 15, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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@seveneccles.bsky.social @floridapress.bsky.social Barry Devine and I are pleased to announce that Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century is available for preorder from the University Press of Florida! #jamesjoyce #teachingjamesjoyce #modernism

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June 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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I'm thrilled to have a chapter on "Teaching the Wakean Sentence" in "Teaching James Joyce in the 21st Century", available for pre-order from @floridapress.bsky.social

Congrats to the eds @seveneccles.bsky.social & @ellenscheible.bsky.social

Ask your library to order a copy!
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June 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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I'm very happy to see my article on Joycean Scholarship & the French translations of #Ulysses published in the new issue of the Romanic Review dedicated to "Joyce and and the Romanic World" (ed. J. Valente), and in such good company! #JamesJoyce #JoyceStudies 📖 read.dukeupress.edu/romanic-revi...
Volume 116 Issue 1 | Romanic Review | Duke University Press
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June 1, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Ange Postecoglou said he always wins something in his second season.

He is a man of his word.

Tottenham have beaten Manchester United 1-0. They have won the Europa League.

Their 17-year trophy drought is 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿.
May 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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TOTTEHAM HOTSPUR ARE EUROPA LEAGUE CHAMPIONS

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOI
May 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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GLORY GLORY TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR
May 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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We've got an exciting new article joining the Wilde/Joyce collection! #joycestudies

Homosexual Panic and Necropolitics in ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ and ‘A Painful Case’ by Mónica Galindo-González • @openlibhums.bsky.social #OLHJ Vol 11 • No 1 • 2025 • olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
Homosexual Panic and Necropolitics in <em>The Picture of Dorian Gray</em> and ‘A Painful Case’
This article provides a comparison between James Joyce and Oscar Wilde’s characters in matters of homosexual panic and gender inequality, bringing the analysis to the grounds of necropolitics. Coined ...
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May 21, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Take advantage of the Early Bird Offer for this year’s Yeats Summer School! Submit your completed application form and full payment by 23rd May to receive a discounted rate.
See below for more details:

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Fees and Registration | Yeats Society Sligo
Information about Yeats International Summer School 2024 fees and how to apply to this year’s Summer School.
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May 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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The Ulysses80 Book Club invites readers from all over the world to revel in Ulysses by reading it together over a span of 80 days.

To join Ulysses80 or to find out more, please visit their website at ulysses80.ie. You can also follow along on Facebook and Bluesky.
May 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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The International Yeats Society is pleased to announce that issue 9.1 of the International Yeats Studies journal is now available!

To help us continue providing open-access scholarship, consider becoming a member today.

open.clemson.edu/iys/vol9/iss...

#yeats #irishlit
April 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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✨Q&A with the editors of "Finnegans Wake: Human & Nonhuman Histories"✨

Richard Barlow and I answer your questions about our new volume of essays on non/human bodies & histories in James Joyce's enigmatic final work – available now from @edinburghup.bsky.social!
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Q&A with the editors of Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories - Edinburgh University Press Blog
A Q&A with the editors of Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories, a new essay collection on the work of Irish author James Joyce.
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April 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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“effervescent”, “sparkling”, “electric”, “a major achievement”!

I'm so grateful for @sharaerua.bsky.social's very positive and beautifully written review of "Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories" in Estudios Irlandeses!
📗@edinburghup.bsky.social

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Finnegans Wake: Human and Non-Human Histories
This edited collection kindles anew a sense of awe at the extraordinary, totalising energies of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake and the multitude of worlds the novel evokes within, as well as keen admira...
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March 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM