Sunday 15 June
5:00 PM-7:00 PM
Welcoming Reception and Registration
Adam's Mark Hotel, Promenade Ballroom C and D
Light dinner, cash bar, and live music
Monday 16 June
8:15 AM-9:00 AM
Registration and Continental Breakfast
Chapman Hall Lobby
9:00AM-9:25AM
Welcoming Remarks
Chapman Lecture Hall
Sean Patrick Latham, Assistant Professor of English and Editor, James
Joyce Quarterly
Thomas D. Benediktson, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
Holly A. Laird, Professor and Chair, Department of English and Editor,
Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature
9:30 AM-11:00 AM
Panel Session I
A. A Bit of Style: Dandies, Lookers, and Dresses
Chapman Lecture Hall
1. Michael Finney (Chair), Youngstown State University, "Blazes
Boylan's Last Rights"
2. Marguerite M. Regan, Southwestern College, "Femininity as
Masquerade: Molly Bloom as Luscious Commodity in the Marketplace"
3. Catherine S. Kalish, Marquette University "Habitual Habiliment:
Dress as Discourse in Finnegans Wake"
B. Place, Space, and Nation
Lorton Hall Amphitheater
1. Paul Robichaud (Chair), Yale University, "Vico, Nation, and
History: Typology and Peripheral Identity in Finnegans Wake"
2. Veda Laxmi Khulpateea, Binghampton University, "Reconstructing,
Realigning, and Reculturing Identity"
3. Carolyn Butcher, University of California at Santa Barbara, "Tomtittot
to Teetootomtotalitarian: The role of text in Bridging Ireland's National
and Global Subjectivity"
C. Roundtable: Translation Issues. A Homage to the James Joyce
Quarterly
McFarlin Library, Faculty Lounge
1. Rosa Maria Bollettieri Bosinelli (Chair), Università di
Bologna a Forlì
2. Karen Lawrence, University of California at Irvine
3. David Pierce, University of York
4. Thomas F. Staley, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the
University of Texas at Austin
5. Jolanta Wawrzycka, Radford University
11:00 AM-11:15 AM
Coffee Break
Chapman Hall Lobby
11:00 AM-1:00 PM
Screening: Ulysses (1989, dir. by Joseph Strick)
Lorton Hall Amphitheater
11:15 AM-12:15 PM
Digital Ulysses: The Next Demo
Chapman Lecture Hall
Robert J. Bertholf, SUNY Buffalo
Luca Crispi, SUNY Buffalo
Michael Groden, University of Western Ontario
Sam Slote, SUNY Buffalo
12:15 PM-1:00 PM
Lunch Break
1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Panel Session II
A. Reality as Fantasy in Joyce
Chapman Lecture Hall
1. Sheldon R. Brivic (Chair), Temple University, "Stephen Dedalus's
Reality of Language"
2. John Bishop, University of California at Berkeley, "Finnegans
Wake and Fantasy"
3. Barbara Cole, SUNY Buffalo, "No means Know: Joyce's Feminism
as Fantasy?"
B. Culture and Context
Lorton Hall Amphitheater
1. William C. Mottolese (Chair), Saint Joseph's College, "Tradition,
Superstition, and Self-Definition: Culture and Belonging in Ulysses"
2. Janine Utell, CUNY-Graduate Center, "Last Rites and Resurrection:
Death Ritual and Comedy in Finnegans Wake"
3. Vike Plock, University of York, "'Alcoh alcoho alcoherently':
Alcoholism and Doubling in 'Counterparts'"
C. Marked Bodies
McFarlin Library, Faculty Lounge
1. Anthony Mick (Chair), University of Louisville, "Skin Flecks
and Skin Flicks: Fear, Desire, and Schizodermal Consciousness in 'Lotus-Eaters'"
2. Kimberly McColl, University of Maryland, "Bodies, Tattoos,
and Signs in 'Eumaeus'"
3. Althea Tait, University of Tulsa, "Nearer to Jouissance: Molly
Bloom and the Black Woman"
D. Roundtable: What Part of Joyce Can We Do Without?: The 1909
Letters
Chapman Hall, Room 122
1. Sam Whitsitt (Chair), Università di Bologna a Forlì
2. Richard Brown, Leeds
3. Kimberly Devlin, University of California at Riverside
4. Vicky Mahaffey, University of Pennsylvania
2:30 PM-2:45 PM
Coffee Break
Chapman Hall Lobby
2:45 PM-4:45 PM
Keynote Roundtable: The Past, Present, and Future of the Joyce Industry:
Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the James Joyce Quarterly
Chapman Lecture Hall
Moderator:
Margot Norris, University of California at Irvine
Participants:
Thomas F. Staley, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at
the University of Texas at Austin, JJQ Founding Editor (1963-1989)
Robert Spoo, JJQ Editor (1989-2001)
Sean Latham, University of Tulsa, JJQ Editor (2001-)
6:00 PM-9:00 PM
Bloomsday Banquet
Philbrook Museum of Art
(Tickets must be purchased in advance.)
Tuesday 17 June
8:30 AM-9:00 AM
Continental Breakfast
Chapman Hall Lobby
9:00 AM-10:30 AM
Panel Session III
A. The Economics and Erotics of Catholicism
Chapman Lecture Hall
1. Mary Lowe-Evans (Chair), University of West Florida, "Benediction:
Joyce and Fitzgerald Host the Big 'O'"
2. Roy Gottfried, Vanderbilt University, "The Industry of the
Church"
3. Randall Woods, Northwestern University, "The Sins of the Fathers
in Joyce's Work: Opening a New Cultural Space Between the Colonial
Powers"
B. At Home with Molly and Poldy
Lorton Hall Amphitheater
1. Jean Kimball (Chair), University of Northern Iowa, "The Jealousy
of Bloom: Pre-Industrial and Beyond"
2. Geoffrey A. Wright, University of Tulsa, "Bloom Is a Turtle:
The Body and/as Home in Joyce's Ulysses"
3. Jacqueline Thomas, University of Texas at Austin, "Aphrodite
Unshamed: An Anthropological View of Menstruation as a Marker of Culture
in Ulysses"
C. "Spirit Hands Were Felt to Flutter": The Afterlife
of Joyce
McFarlin Library, Faculty Lounge
1. David Pierce (Chair), University of York, "Black Refills:
Joyce and Cultural Belatedness"
2. Mark Dunphy, Lindsey Wilson College, "Henry Roth Do James
Joyce in an Anxiety of Influence: Voice in From Bondage"
3. Patricia Juliana Smith, Hofstra University,"Metempsychoses
and Osmoses: James Joyce and John Lennon"
10:30 AM-10:45 AM
Coffee Break
Chapman Hall Lobby
10:45 AM-12:15 PM
Panel Session IV
A. Joyce and Film
Chapman Lecture Hall
1. Margot Norris (Chair), University of California at Irvine, "The
Challenges of Filming Ulysses"
2. Thomas Jackson Rice, University of South Carolina, "'I do
mince words, don't I'"
3. Michael J. O'Shea, Studies in Short Fiction, "Le Petomane
Revisited: Edison...Mel Brooks. Baz Luhrmann...Joyce"
B. Re-Reading "The Dead"
Lorton Hall Amphitheater
1. Corinna del Greco Lobner (Chair), University of Tulsa, "Aesthetic
Transitions and Satirical Variations of D'Annunzian Themes in 'The
Dead'"
2. Jasmine Mulliken, University of Central Oklahoma, "Crossing
Artistic Genres: 'The Dead' as Traditional Irish Folk Song"
3. John Connors Kerrigan, Rockhurst University, "Dramatic Contexts
and Strategies in 'The Dead'"
C. Teaching in/and Joyce
McFarlin Library, Faculty Lounge
1. Marcia K. Farrell (Chair), University of Tulsa, "The Market
for Education in 'Scylla and Charybdis'"
2. Richard J. Blaustein, Jewish Studies Center of Washington D.C.,
"James Joyce for the Peace Processes and Beyond"
3. Sara Beam Thomas, University of Tulsa, "Stephen Dedalus and
Pedagogical Theory in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
and Ulysses"
12:15 PM-1:30 PM
Lunch Break
1:30 PM-2:30 PM
Keynote Address
Chapman Lecture Hall
Robert Scholes, Brown University, "Sentimental Jimmy"
2:30 PM-2:45 PM
Coffee Break
Chapman Hall Lobby
2:45 PM-4:15 PM
Panel Session V
A. Ourselves Alone: The Joyce Industry
Chapman Lecture Hall
1. Paul Saint-Amour, Pomona College (Chair), "Post-mortem Joyce:
A Hauntology of the Joyce Industry"
2. William S. Brockman, University of Pennsylvania, "The 'James
Joyce Checklist': A Portrait of the Industry"
3. John Pedro Schwartz, University of Texas at Austin,"The Museum
and its Discontents: Modernism, Joyce, and Finnegans Wake"
B. Semiotic Pleasures
Lorton Hall Amphitheater
1. J. Gregory Brister (Chair), University of Kansas, "Joyce's
Semiotic Aesthetic: Epiphany as Peircean Semiosis"
2. Tim Conley, Queen's University, "Knocks, Locks, and Keyholes:
'Come In!' Said the Author of Finnegans Wake"
3. Sam Leonard, University of Tulsa, "'Dublin's burning! Dublin's
burning! On fire, on fire!': Aphasia and Narrative Decomposition in
Ulysses"
C. Myth, Magic, and Archetype
McFarlin Library, Faculty Lounge
1. Nicola De Marco (Chair), Univerità "G. d'Annunzio,"
"From Lyrical Exuberance to Dramatic Withdrawl: A Structural
Analysis of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
2. Elaine Mingus, "The Questing Youth in James Joyce and Thomas
Mann"
3. J. Michael Bryan, University of Tulsa, "Traveling in the Mind
of Mythical Imagination: Locating the Aesthetics of William Blake
in James Joyce"
4:15 PM-4:30 PM
Coffee Break
Chapman Hall Lobby
4:30 PM-5:30 PM
"In Good Company": An Introduction to the Special Exhibition
from the Special Collections of McFarlin Library
Chapman Lecture Hall
Lori N. Curtis, Head of Special Collections, McFarlin Library
Luca Crispi, SUNY Buffalo
Stacey Herbert, SUNY Buffalo
5:30 PM-7:00 PM
Reception to Celebrate the Opening of "In Good Company"
McFarlin Library, Special Collections, 5th Floor
Sponsored by McFarlin Library
Wednesday 18 June
Open Day
Activities include:
· Morning walking tour of the Art Deco treasures in downtown
Tulsa (sign up available at registration table).
· Afternoon bus trip to the Philbrook Museum of Art to view "Modern
Masters: Corot to Kandinsky" as well as the permanent collections
(sign up at registration table).
· Afternoon bus trip to the Gilcrease Museum of Art to view their
renowned collections of Western and Native-American art. Free tour included
(sign up at registration table).
Thursday 19 June
8:30 AM-9:00 AM
Continental Breakfast
Chapman Hall Lobby
9:00 AM-10:30 AM
Panel Session VI
A. Joyce in and Out of Context
Chapman Lecture Hall
1. Ira B. Nadel (Chair), University of British Columbia, "'A
Set of Megaphones': Edith Wharton & James Joyce"
2. Joyce Wexler, Loyola University, Chicago, "When History is
a Nightmare: From Modernism to Magic Realism"
3. Matthew Perry, University of Tulsa, "Prowling from Sandymount
Strand to the National Maternity Hospital: Vampirism in 'Nausicaa'
and 'Oxen of the Sun'"
B. The Wake in Theory
Lorton Hall Amphitheater
1. Sam Slote (Chair), SUNY Buffalo, "Blinded by Science: Finnegans
Wake, Relativity, and so Forth"
2. Ellen Scheible, Claremont Graduate University, "'Call her
calamity electrifies man': ALP and the Continuation of the Literary
Archive"
3. J. Fitzpatrick Smith, California State University, Chico, "'Dyas
in his Machina': The Interrupting Machinery of Finnegans Wake"
C. Irish Contexts
McFarlin Library, Faculty Lounge
1. Roslyn Blyn-LaDrew (Chair), University of Pennsylvania, "'James
Joyce - Language - Glossaries, etc.': A View of Scholarship on Joyce's
Use of Irish Gaelic from a Celtic Studies Perspective"
2. Jeremy Saint Larance, University of Tulsa, "An Irish Eye for
an Eye, Says I: The Other Eyes of the Cyclops"
4. John Morgan, University of Missouri, Rolla, "'My soul Receding':
A Troubling Adjective in 'The Sisters.'"
10:30 AM-10:45 AM
Coffee Break
Chapman Hall Lobby
10:45 AM-12:15 PM
Panel Session VII
A. Joyce and the Victorians
Chapman Lecture Hall
1. Joseph A. Kestner (Chair), University of Tulsa, "Victorians
and the 'Joyce Industry': Ulysses and Battle Art"
2. Mark Osteen, Loyola College, "The Great Expectations of Stephen
Dedalus"
3. Edward P. Walkiewicz, Oklahoma State University, "Joyce's
'jock the wrapper': Masculinity, Misogyny, Modernity"
B. Frustrated Bridges: Joyce and Riddles
Lorton Hall Amphitheater
1. Jim LeBlanc (Chair), Cornell University, "On the Sham of Shem/Shaun:
Whose Riddle Is It Anyway?"
2. John-Paul Spiro, CUNY Graduate Center, "The 'Alshemist': Writer,
Reader, and Critic in Finnegans Wake I.vii"
3. Amanda Sigler, University of Tulsa, "Shem's Fake ID: The Riddling
Narrative of the Penman in Finnegans Wake"
C. Waking It Up or Making it Up: Language, Translation, and Error
in Finnegans Wake
McFarlin Library, Faculty Lounge
1. Eduardo D. Faingold (Chair), University of Tulsa, "Foreign
Words in Finnegans Wake: A Typology of Spelling Devices"
2. Frank Manista, Michigan State University, "The Meanings of
That Other World: Joycean Translations"
3. Robbert-Jan Henkes and Erik Bindervoet, "Like svvollovving
vvhat? Like svvollovving stickers! (FW 394.05) Transmissional Departures:
the Translator's Delight"
12:15 PM-1:30 PM
Lunch Break
1:30 PM-2:30 PM
Keynote Address
Chapman Lecture Hall
Karen Lawrence, University of California at Irvine, "Close
Encounters"
2:30 PM-2:45 PM
Coffee Break
Chapman Hall Lobby
2:45 PM-4:15 PM
Panel Session VIII
A. "There is Something Sinister in You": Stephen Dedalus
and the Problems of Selfhood
Chapman Lecture Hall
1. Kimberly Devlin (Chair), University of California at Riverside,
"The Anxiosly Supersaturated Subject: Joyce's Representation
of Stephen in Ulysses"
2. Sherry Burgus Little, San Diego State University, "The Woman
Figure and Structural Patterns in Portrait: Stephen's Birdgirl"
3. Dan Mills, Georgia State University, "A Transactional Analysis
of Stephen Dedalus"
B. Bodies: Clean, Hungry, and Swollen
Lorton Hall Amphitheater
1. Mary Power (Chair), University of New Mexico, "Fear of Bathing
and the Wonders of the Turkish Bath"
2. Shane Gilley, University of Tulsa, "Eating the Irish: Bloom
and Cannibalism in 'Eumaeus'"
3. Jeffrey Longacre, University of Tulsa, "'There's A Belly That
Never Bore A Bastard': Troping Over Birth in Joyce's "'Oxen of
the Sun'"
C. Mapping Dubliners: Structure, Space, and Meaning
McFarlin Library, Faculty Lounge
1. Greg Winston (Chair), Husson College, "Joyce and Militarism"
2. David G. Wright, University of Auckland, "Corkscrews and Candles:
Repetition, Parody and Absence in Dubliners"
3. Theo Bohn, "TITLE"
4:15 PM-4:30 PM
Coffee Break
4:30 PM-6:00 PM
Entertainments
Chapman Lecture Hall
Barbara Cole, SUNY Buffalo, reading from her poetry
Adam Harvey, a preview performance of Finnegans Wake II.i
Friday 20 June
8:30 AM-9:00 AM
Continental Breakfast
Chapman Hall Lobby
9:00 AM-10:30 AM
Panel Session IX
A. Just Between Men
Chapman Lecture Hall
1. Alan Gravano (Chair), University of Miami "'Hyssop, coloquintida,
and clyster-pipes': Anal Fixation in Mulligan and Deasy"
2. Elizabeth McClure, University of Maryland, "Queering Bloom:
Perversion and Pregnancy in Ulysses"
3. Forrest K. Lehman, Boston College, "I am Large, I Contain
Multitudes: Lenehan as a Musketeer, Leech, and Disciple in 'Two Gallants'"
B. What Bogeyman's Trick Is This?
Lorton Hall Amphitheater
1. Heyward Ehrlich (Chair), Rutgers University, "Joyce's Yogibogeybox"
2. Robert L. Fulton, University of Texas at Austin, "When We
Waken the Dead: Death and Memory and the Search for Kleos Aphthiton
in James Joyce"
3. Jim Cody, "Joyce's Use of H.P. Blavatsky's Isis Unveiled in
Structuring Ulysses as an Irish Bull"
C. That's Incredible!: Fascinating Facts and Tantalizing Trivia
McFarlin Library, Faculty Lounge
1. Judith Harrington (Chair), "Titbits from Buffalo? - or - The
Wacky Periodicals from Joyce's Paris Library Now at the University
of Buffalo"
2. John Gordon, Connecticut College, "Bloom's Birthday"
3. Eloise Knowlton, "The Case of the Copied Letter, or Norah
Comes Clean"
10:30 AM-10:45 AM
Coffee Break
Chapman Hall Lobby
10:45 AM-11:45 AM
Keynote Address
Chapman Lecture Hall
Carol Shloss, Stanford University, "James Joyce, Lucia Joyce
and Mickey Mouse"
11:45AM-1:15 PM
Lunch Break
1:15 PM-2:45 PM
Panel Session X
A. Paralysis
Chapman Lecture Hall
1. Allen Bauman (Chair), University of Tulsa, "The Joyce Industry,
Stephen Hero, and Paralysis
2. Jonathan Elmore, Wake Forest University, "'I'll Say a Hail
Mary for You': Commodity, Exchange and Paralysis in 'Counterparts'"
3. James Baltrum, Robert Morris College, "What is Encountered
in 'An Encounter'"
B. Fielding Two Homers
Lorton Hall Amphitheater
1. C. Kinian Cosner, Jr. (Chair), Vanderbilt University, "Absence
as Presence Redux: Ulysses and the Novels of Henry Fielding"
2. Kerri Elizabeth Ames, University of Chicago, "The Epistemology
of Infidelity in Homer's Odyssey and Joyce's Ulysses"
3. Stephen Whittaker, University of Scranton, "Homer in Joyce:
The Problem of Industrial Standards"
C. Joyce and Popular Culture
McFarlin Library, Faculty Lounge
1. Andrew Ball (Chair), University of Toledo,"'Guinness Scenography':
Order in Finnegans Wake"
2. Denise Tanyol, University of Pennsylvania, "Mummery, Murmuring
Memory, Mum: Buck Mulligan as Resurrector in Ulysses"
3. Catherine Whitley, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, "Post-Institutional
Joyce: Ulysses as Avant-Garde"
2:45 PM-3:00 PM
Coffee Break
Chapman Hall Lobby
3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Roundtable: The Retrospective and Proleptic Ulysses
Chapman Lecture Hall
Michael Patrick Gillespie, Marquette University (moderator)
Sheldon R. Brivic, Temple University
Nicholas Fargnoli, Molloy College
Michael Groden, University of Western Ontario
Margot Norris, University of California, Irvine
Ira Nadel, University of British Columbia
4:30 PM-6:30 PM
Closing Reception
President's Lounge, Allen Chapman Activity Center