The last few years, we have hosted online reading groups focused on Ulysses (2022), Dubliners (2023) Portrait (2024), and Exiles (2025). These groups draw participants from across the Joyce readerverse: acclaimed experts, utter neophytes, seasoned vets, enthusiastic enthusiasts, students, dramatists, adaptors, documentarians…
In 2026, we are trying something different: a 4-week reading group just on the “Circe” episode of Ulysses, probably starting a week after JJ’s birthday in February. Check back here for dates and details.
Watch this space for updates!
Like our former reading groups, we will meet remotely, via Zoom. You will receive the link after signing up here.
In order to join our Exiles reading group, you must be a current member of the Joyce Society. Join here!
Sign up for the reading group here.
Marian Eide will lead our discussion for Act I on February 11.
Marian Eide is Murray and Celeste Fasken Endowed Chair and Professor of English and Women’s & Gender Studies at Texas A&M University. She is the author of Ethical Joyce (Cambridge 2002), After Combat: True War Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan (Potomac 2018—with Michael Gibler, col. ret. U.S. Army-Infantry), and the Terrible Beauty: The Violent Aesthetic and Twentieth-Century Literature (UVAPress, 2019), as well as approximately twenty articles on twentieth-century literature and culture. She has been a fellow at the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah and at the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research. Her research concerns ethics, aesthetics, and violence.
Michelle Witen will lead our discussion for Acts II and III on February 18.
Michelle Witen is Junior Professor of British and Irish Literature and Director of the EUF Centre for Irish Studies at the Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany. She did her BA and MA at the University of Western Ontario, her DPhil at the University of Oxford, and held a postdoc at the University of Basel. She is the author of James Joyce and Absolute Music (Bloomsbury 2018) and co-editor of Shakespeare and Space (Palgrave 2016), the James Joyce Quarterly Special Issue on “Joyce and the Nonhuman” (2020/21), and Modernism in Wonderland (Bloomsbury 2024). She is currently writing a monograph on Victorian periodicals
The Finnegans Wake Society of New York
The Finnegans Wake Society of New York was founded on the fiftieth anniversary of James Joyce’s death, 13 January 1991, when it held its first meeting at the historic Gotham Book Mart in New York City. Since then it has had many homes, and currently resides online, where it meets on Zoom. Generally meetings involve a close reading and discussion of a single page of the Wake. Newcomers welcome: no experience necessary!
For those interested in a Finnegans Wake reading group, consider joining The Finnegans Wake Society of New York:
