We are excited to announce the nominees for the 2024 Board of Trustees Election. See each candidate’s statement below. As in past elections, active members will receive an email with instructions on how to vote. Email ijjf@utulsa.edu or reach out directly to IJJF Executive Secretary, Jeff Drouin, at jsd652@utulsa.edu, for questions about election procedures.
Talia Abu
The University of Jerusalem, Israel
I am honored to submit my candidacy for a position on the board of the International James Joyce Foundation. As a Joyce scholar from outside the USA and Western Europe, I hope to bring a unique perspective to the study of Joyce that reflects the global impact of his work beyond traditional geographic boundaries. I am passionate about broadening the cultural and intellectual diversity within the Foundation, and looking forward to help welcoming to the Joyce community new members from all backgrounds. In my personal life I am a human rights activist, and I intend to uphold the same principles of equality, justice, and safety for all if given the opportunity to serve on the board.
Richard Barlow
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
I am an Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore and a former Academic Director of the Trieste Joyce School. My articles have appeared in journals such as Irish Studies Review and James Joyce Quarterly. I am the author of The Celtic Unconscious: Joyce and Scottish Culture (Notre Dame University Press, 2017) and Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms (Oxford University Press, 2023). I am also a co-editor of Finnegans Wake: Human and Nonhuman Histories (Edinburgh University Press, 2024). I received my PhD from Queen’s University Belfast in 2012.
My interest in Joyce began as an Erasmus student at the University of Trieste in 2001/02 and I gave lectures at the Trieste Joyce School in 2012, 2017, and 2023. I have attended six IJJF symposia since 2012 and I was a plenary speaker at the 2024 IJJF symposium at the University of Glasgow. I have been teaching a course on Ulysses at NTU since 2015. If elected to the board, my location in Singapore would give the IJJF representation outside of Europe and America and I would bring my experience of organising conferences, of mentoring undergraduate and postgraduate students, and of academic committee work to the role.
M. Teresa Caneda-Cabrera
University of Vigo, Spain
I am an Associate Professor of English at the University of Vigo in Galicia, Northwestern Spain, where I coordinate the EFACIS-Irish Studies Centre. I have been responsible for the organization of different seminars, workshops and lectures with the participation of numerous guest speakers from the IJJF since I joined the Department of English more than twenty-five years ago. I was the organizer of the 19th Annual Conference of the Spanish James Joyce Society.
My efforts as a member of the IJJF at the University of Vigo have been directed to visibilize the rich plurality of Joyce scholarship and to reinforce the attention that the field of Joyce Studies has traditionally received in Spain. I published the monograph La estética modernista comopráctica de resistencia en A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (2002) and edited the volume Vigorous Joyce: Atlantic Readings of James Joyce (2010) with the University of Vigo Press and have authored several articles and commissioned and reviewed others for the English and Translation Studies journals published by the University of Vigo and the Galician Association of Translators. I have been invited to lecture on Joyce at institutions in Spain, Portugal, Poland, Ireland, Italy, Iceland, Greece, Belgium, Argentina, the UK and the US. My work on Joyce has appeared in journals such as the James Joyce Quarterly, James Joyce Literary Supplement, Papers on Joyce, Interventions, Translation Studies and Translation and Literature and I have authored book chapters published with Palgrave Macmillan, Brill-Rodopi, Routledge and Bloomsbury.
Kazuhiro Doki
Aichi University of Education, Japan
I have been involved in Joyce studies since my MA thesis for Hiroshima University 1985. I was given a Young Researcher’s Award for my paper on Dubliners from the English Literature Society of Japan in 1994. The title is “Doubling Dublin: Joyce’s Discovery on the Language System through Repetitions in Dubliners.” In 2009, I published a book on Ulysses and Narratology in Japanese, which was developed from my dissertation for Hiroshima University. I was a board member of James Joyce Society in Japan from 2010 to 2023 and the editor of Joycean Japan from 2019 to 2022.
While I stayed in University of Illinois as a research scholar from 1994 to 1996, I joined a Finnegans Wake reading group and met Bill Brockman. We organized a Finnegans Wake panel for 1996 IJJF Symposium at Zürich. Then I read a paper “Dubliners and Bildungsroman” in 1999 IJJF conference at Charleston, South Carolina. I also sent copies of Joycean Japan to JJQ Checklist intermittently from 2001 to 2022.
I have returned to IJJF symposium this year 2024 after a long absence and read a paper “Alliteration and Anagram in Ulysses” at Glasgow. Now I am willing to contribute to IJJF both academically and administratively if possible. In addition, I hope I can bring not only Japanese perspective on Joyce studies but also some other Asian countries’ perspectives to IJJF.
Eishiro Ito
Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
It is a great honour for me to be nominated to the board of the International James Joyce Foundation. I have been studying James Joyce for over forty years and have been an international advisor for the James Joyce Society of Korea since 2006. I have attended all the IJJF symposia in Europe since 2000 at the University of London, and the North American Joyce Symposia twice, in Toronto in 2017 and Mexico City in 2019. My main research topics, about which I have published and presented, concern Joyce and Orientalism, particularly from Japanese and Chinese perspectives.
Thanks to the symposia, I have developed professional relationships with participants especially from Europe and North America. James Joyce spent his life in Europe and focused on his native city of Dublin, yet his works have been translated and are appreciated around the world, echoing the expansion of Dublin from “such a small city” in Dubliners, through Jesuitism in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Judaism in Ulysses to “Dyoublong” in Joycean cosmopolitanism and multilingualism of Finnegans Wake. I hope to assist the IJJF in encouraging and welcoming Joyceans worldwide, including Asia and Africa, and with the potential benefits of cultural diversity, contribute to the evolution of Global Joyce Studies.
Colleen Jaurretche
University of California, Los Angeles, United States of America
I was preparing to become a medievalist while reading the Wake on the sly, but in 1989, twenty minutes after my arrival at my first Joyce conference, I changed my dissertation topic and never looked back. Over the decades I have attended numerous symposia and workshops, and written many articles and books on Joyce. I directed the 2011 North American Joyce Conference at The Huntington Library and co-directed a symposium honoring the 2022 centenary of Ulysses. I teach in the department of English at UCLA. In addition to my work on Joyce, I am writing a memoir embracing my family’s European and Indigenous Mexican stories and landscapes. Researching this book, I discovered my status as a citizen of the Teme-Augama Anishnabai of Northern Ontario. I bring extensive leadership and fundraising experience from my fourteen years as co-founder and director of a literary nonprofit in Los Angeles. In addition, I have twelve years of governance experience while serving on the board of a nationally-registered historic landmark.
Erika Mihálycsa
Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj, Romania
I have worked together with Joyceans and translators into more than ten languages, many so-called “minor”, focusing on the creativity and intertextuality of translation in co-editing the volume Retranslating Joyce for the 21st Century (2020), as well as co-ordinating, together with Jolanta Wawrzycka and Fritz Senn, two ZJF workshops and one special journal issue dedicated to (re)translating Joyce. I have proposed and co-authored collaborative work at the interface of literary theory, translation studies, reception and archival studies, bringing together insights from Joyce scholar-translators across languages. As editor of Rareș Moldovan’s new, annotated Romanian Ulysses (2023) I encouraged creative solutions that might approximate the original’s subversiveness and stylistic exuberance. If elected into the IJJF Board of Trustees, I would work toward raising the visibility of translation and creative adaptation/rewriting as enmeshed with all other forms of literary studies, and I would advocate for more platforms to be given to collaborative and dialogic work in the discipline, alongside the classical essay/monograph forms.
Stephanie Nelson
Boston University, United States of America
Coming to Joyce Studies from my background in Classics, I have been wonderfully impressed by the Joyce community and am grateful for all it has given me, in availability of resources, intellectual stimulation, comradery, and friendship. I have found the non-hierarchical nature of the community particularly refreshing, and have relished the chance to learn from the enormous variety of Joyceans, scholars both affiliated and independent, at all stages of their careers, and from a wonderfully diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. Having gained so much myself it seems to me only right to be willing to pay back, if elected to the Board. Above all, however, I look forward to continuing the rich and valuable conversations I have been able to have with all the members of the community.
Stephanie Nelson is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Classical Studies at Boston University.
James T. Ramey
Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico
I have been an active scholar of James Joyce since receiving my Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, where I taught and published before moving to Mexico City. Since 2010, I have been attending Joyce symposia and contributing to the IJJF community. Currently, I am a professor at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, where I work to expand Joyce studies in the Global South. In 2019, I organized the North American James Joyce Symposium in Mexico City, bringing together 180 scholars from 24 countries, with a special focus on emerging voices from Latin America. I also co-edited Joyce without Borders (University Press of Florida, 2022), a volume that features contributions from leading scholars alongside six exceptional essays by women graduate students and recent Ph.D. holders.
I am particularly committed to helping new participants feel welcome at symposia, and I would support informal mentoring to ensure first-time attendees connect with the Joyce community. If chosen to serve on the board, I will work to promote collegiality, openness, and balance, helping the IJJF continue its important work in creating an environment where new and seasoned scholars alike feel safe, supported, and respected.
Greg Winston
Husson University, United States of America
I am honored to be nominated to the board of the International James Joyce Foundation. From my first Joyce conference presentations (Tulsa, 2003 and Dublin 2004), I have found a welcoming community of scholars whose professional camaraderie and intellectual engagement have drawn me back to IJJF meetings for over two decades. Involvement with the organization has energized my teaching and research, inspiring me to write a number of Joyce-related essays, reviews and a book ( Joyce and Militarism (University Press of Florida)). I look forward to the opportunity to give back to the Joyce Foundation by helping to sustain its programs and by encouraging and supporting Joyce scholars.
I am Professor of English at Husson University, Maine, USA, where I have taught since 2001. Three years as Chair of Humanities and one as President of Faculty Forum brought me administrative experience that would translate well to IJJF board responsibilities. In the rapidly evolving landscape of higher education, I would also be a board member who can share the unique challenges and rewards of teaching Joyce to mostly non-humanities majors and first-generation college students at a small, rural professionally-oriented university. I hold an MA (1997) and PhD (2001) from the University of Delaware and a BA from Colgate University (1993). I was selected for the NEH Ulysses Summer Seminar (Trinity College, Dublin, 2007) and as Fulbright Scholar in Anglophone Irish literature at Queen’s University, Belfast (2019-2020).