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