Robert Spoo is the Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters at Princeton University. Previously, he was the Chapman Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of English at the University of Tulsa, where he edited and (later) co-edited the James Joyce Quarterly. He earned his BA in English at Lawrence University and his MA and PhD in English at Princeton, where he held a Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities and later taught as a Lecturer. He received his JD from Yale Law School; after graduating, he served as judicial clerk to the Honorable Sonia Sotomayor when she was a member of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Spoo’s research and teaching merge interdisciplinary interests in literature, law, and theories of intellectual property and the public domain. His writing focuses on modern Irish figures, notably James Joyce and Oscar Wilde, and he is actively involved in the law-and-literature movement within modernist studies. He is the author of Modernism and the Law, Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain, and James Joyce and the Language of History: Dedalus’s Nightmare. Spoo’s interdisciplinary work has appeared in many collections and journals, including the Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, UCLA Law Review, ELH, Journal of Modern Literature, James Joyce Quarterly, Joyce Studies Annual, Law & Literature, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, and Modernism/modernity Print Plus.

Casey Lawrence (she/they) completed her doctorate in English literature at Trinity College Dublin in 2023. She organised the Wilde and Joyce Symposium in 2022 and co-edited the resultant essay collection, “Caliban’s Mirror: Reflections of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde,” Open Library of Humanities Journal (2024–25). In addition to being a published author of three YA LGBT novels, she has a chapter in Joyce Writing Disability (UP of Florida, 2022) and is the co-editor of One Long Blue Streak: Joyce and Swearing, forthcoming with De Gruyter Brill, 2026. She is on the committee of Modernist Studies Ireland and convenes the MSI's bi-weekly Finnegans Wake Reading Group on Zoom.

Sam Slote is a Professor at Trinity College Dublin. His research focuses on twentieth-century Modernism and Late Modernism, with an emphasis on the works of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. His most recent publications are: Annotations to James Joyce’s Ulysses, co-written with Marc Mamigonian and John Turner; and Ulysses Forty Years: A Critical Retrospective of Hans Walter Gabler’s Critical and Synoptic Edition of Ulysses, co-edited with Georgina Nugent. He has co-edited six volumes on Joyce: Probes: Genetic Studies in Joyce, Genitricksling Joyce, How Joyce Wrote Finnegans Wake, Renascent Joyce, Derrida and Joyce: On Totality and Equivocation, and James Joyce and the Arts. He has also written a book on Joyce and Nietzsche, Joyce's Nietzschean Ethics. Currently, he is working on a project on Joyce and mimesis. He has served two terms on the Board of Trustees for the International James Joyce Foundation and is on the editorial board for The James Joyce Quarterly, Joyce Studies Annual, European Joyce Studies, The Dublin James Joyce Journal, and Genetic Joyce Studies. In 2022, Slote was appointed the Series Editor for the James Joyce Series, published by the University of Florida Press.