Please join the James Joyce Society for our latest installment in our Lunchtime Launch Series:

Joyce Studies Annual; Special Issue: Networks of Transnationality

Moderated by JSA Guest Editor, Shinjini Chattopadhyay

in conversation with Special Issue contributors: Ronan Crowley, Julieann Veronica Ulin, Amanda Sigler, Barbara Hoffman, Michelle Clayton, Masaya Shimokusu, Jenkin Benson, Zoe Patterson, and Carmela Esposito

Opening Remarks by JSA editors, Chris GoGwilt and Keri Walsh

This event will meet over Zoom. RSVP required (forthcoming).

What does it mean to read James Joyce along the networks of transnationality in 2026? Does it mean meticulously tracking all the numerous global locations mentioned in his works? Does it concern examining the countless literary allusions and linguistic experiments curated from diverse world literatures in his writing? Or does it entail comparing Joyce’s works with other world writers? These are some of the questions that enliven the JSA special issue on networks of transnationality. Recognizing that transnationalism is ubiquitous in Joyce's works, all essays in the issue take up the question of how to perform transnational readings of Joyce's writing. The articles presented in this issue probe the inherent contradictions, slippages, and risks associated with performing transnational readings of Joyce and model ways to avoid replicating the stereotypes of center/periphery, major/minor, provincial/cosmopolitan.

I. Transnational Reflections

Ronan Crowley, “‘Who?’: Locating Joyce’s Transnational Women”

Julieann Veronica Ulin, “Pell-Mell Tolstoy”

Amanda Sigler, “Joyce’s Wartime Verse in Poetry Magazine”

Barbara Hoffman, “‘She’s Apples’: Food, Trade, and Australia in Joyce”

II. Transnational Excursions

Michelle Clayton, “Found in Translation: Recent Latin American Ulysses”

Masaya Shimokusu, “‘The Fall of Icarus’: Joycean Features in Ito Sei”

Jenkin Benson, “Insular Internationality: on James Joyce and David Jones”

Zoe Patterson, “Joyce Reading Groups and Transnationalism”

Carmela Esposito, “Joyce’s Legacy in Ali Smith”