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1 Curriculum Vitae ANDREW WILLIAM GIBSON Career 2 Honorary Appointments 2 Research Grants 3 Editorial Boards 3 Research Seminars: Directorships 3 Upcoming Events 4 Publications 4 Monographs in Progress 4 Monographs Published 4 Edited Collections 4 Co-Edited Collections 5 Essays and Reviews 5 Children's Fiction 11 Current Research and Research Interests 11 Keynote Lectures, Invited Presentations, Conference Papers by Invitation 2000-2010 12 Intercollegiate and other Major Lectures and Presentations 1980-2000 16 Conferences Organized 19 Seminar Series Organized 19 Other Conference Presentations 19 Research Students 20 Administrative and Other Duties 20 Appointing Committees 21 University Administration 21 College Administration 21 Departmental Administration 22 Examining 22 Academic Work Abroad (pre-2000) 23 Other 24 Teaching Profile 24 Review Extracts (2000-12): A Selection 25-29

2 Curriculum Vitae ANDREW WILLIAM GIBSON Presently retired Research Professor of Modern Literature and Theory, Royal Holloway, University of London, still teaching part-time in that institution.

Born London, April 27th, 1949 Career 2014-

Part-time research and teaching, RHUL

2005-14

Promoted to Research Professor, RHUL

2008

Carole and Gordon Segal Professor of Irish Literature (Northwestern University, USA)

1999-2005

Promoted to Chair (Professor of Modern Literature and Theory)

1996-99

Promoted to Reader

1990-96

Promoted to Senior Lecturer

1977-90

Lecturer in English Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London

1973-76

Assistant Lecturer in Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong

1971-73

St. John's College, Oxford B.Phil. in Comparative Literature (English and French, with distinction)

1970-71

University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (teaching assistant)

1967-70

St. John's College, Oxford Mapleton-Bree Prize for Creative Work (1970, poetry) B.A. Hons in English Language and Literature (First Class)

1960-67

Lord Williams' Grammar School, Thame, Oxon.

10 `O' levels; 3 `A' levels, 2 `S' levels (English A1, French A1, Latin A)

1953-60

Truro Cathedral Preparatory School, Truro, Cornwall

Honorary Appointments 2013

Member of Comité de Sélection, Collège international de philosophie, Paris

2012

Research Projects Assessor, Academy of Finland

2011-

Associate Member, Beckett International Foundation

2010-

Member of Conseil scientifique, Collège international de philosophie, Paris

3 2010

Visiting Professor, Nordic Universities Summer School

2006

Member of Scholarship Committee, International James Joyce Foundation

2003-10

Member of the International Association of University Professors in English

2003-5

Member of and contributor to the Philosophie, Art et Littérature seminar, Collège internationale de philosophie, Paris

2003-6

Trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation

2003

Visiting Scholar at Texas (A & M) University

2002

Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan's premier university

2002-14

Member of the Advisory Board of the London Network for Modern Textual Studies

2001-3

Visiting Professor, Scandinavian Summer School of Literature and Theory

Research Grants Franco-Irish Historical Contexts and Materials for Beckett’s Work in the 1940s (Research Project Grant for £302, 682 from the Leverhulme Trust, to start October 2010; withdrawn after Ronan MacDonald’s appointment to a Chair in Australia).

Received 2009

British Academy Small Research Grant (for Samuel Beckett: A Critical Life)

2008

British Academy Small Research Grant (for Intermittency: The Concept of Historical Reason in Recent French Philosophy)

2003-5

Leverhulme Research Fellowship (for Beckett and Badiou)

2002

British Academy Small Research Grant (for London from Punk to Blair)

Editorial Boards 2009-13

Member of Editorial Board of Miscelánea

2008-14

Member of Editorial Board of Limit(e) Beckett (Université de Paris IV and VII)

2007-14

Member of Editorial Board of Textuel (Université de Paris VII)

2006-14

Member of Editorial Board of Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics

2004-

Permanent Advisory Editor to the James Joyce Quarterly

2003-

Member of Editorial Board of Critical Zone

Research Seminars: Directorships 2004-13

Co-Founder and Co-Director of the London University Seminar for Research into Finnegans Wake

4 1986-2013

Founder and Director of the London University Seminar for Research into Joyce's Ulysses

Upcoming Events `Instability and the “Enigmatic Will” to Inertia in Badiou’s Ontology’, Masterclass, Set Theory Ontology and the Philosophy of the Event, University of Liverpool, October 2015 Publications Various of my publications have been translated into the following languages: German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Serbo-Croat.

Monographs In Progress Hearts of Darkness: Misanthropy in Western Culture (forthcoming) Modernity and the Political Fix (Bloomsbury) Published The Strong Spirit: History, Politics and Aesthetics in the Writings of James Joyce 1898-1915 (Oxford University Press, 2012) Intermittency: The Concept of Historical Reason in Recent French Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2012; listed for R.H. Gapper Book Prize for year’s best book in French Studies, 2012) Samuel Beckett: A Critical Life (University of Chicago Press/Reaktion Books, 2010) Beckett and Badiou: The Pathos of Intermittency (Oxford University Press, 2006; nominated for the 2008 Modernist Studies Association prize) James Joyce: A Critical Life (University of Chicago Press/Reaktion Books, 2006) Joyce's Revenge: History, Politics and Aesthetics in 'Ulysses' (Oxford University Press, 2002; paperback, 2005) Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel: From Leavis to Levinas (Routledge, 1999) Towards a Postmodern Theory of Narrative (Edinburgh University Press, 1996) Reading Narrative Discourse: Studies in the Novel from Cervantes to Beckett (Macmillan, 1990) Edited Collections Joyce's "Ithaca" (European Joyce Studies Series vol. 6, 1996) Reading Joyce's "Circe" (European Joyce Studies Series vol. 3, 1994) Pound in Multiple Perspective (Macmillan, 1993)

5 Co-Edited Collections (with Len Platt), Joyce, Ireland, Britain (Florida Joyce Series, University of Florida Press, 2006) (with architectural historian Joe Kerr of the Royal College of Art), London from Punk to Blair (Reaktion Books, 2003; second edition 2012) (with research student Steven Morrison), Joyce's "Wandering Rocks" (European Joyce Studies series, vol. 12, 2002) (with research student David Rudrum), vol. 321 of the Annotated Bibliography for English Studies (on Narrative Theory [1997-99]) (with Robert Hampson), Conrad and Theory (Rodopi, 1997) (with Warren Chernaik and Marilyn Deegan), Beyond the Book: Theory, Culture and the Politics of Cyberspace (Oxford Humanities Computing, 1996) Essays and Reviews `Historicity and the Disembodied Voice: Heidegger, Foucault, Joyce’, in In Andree Otto and Jeff Thoss (eds.), Disembodied Voices, Unembodied Narration (de Gruyter, forthcoming) `At the Dying Atlantic’s Edge’: Norman Nicholson and the Cumbrian Coast’, in Nicholas Allen, Nick Groom and Jos Smith (eds.), Coastal Works: Cultures of the Atlantic Edge (Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2016) `"A New Mode of the Existence of Truth": Rancière and the Beginnings of Modernity 1780-1830’, in Julian Murphet and Grace Hellyer (eds.), Rancière and Literature (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming in 2016) `Remainder’, in Patricia Waugh and Marc Botha (eds.), Critical Transitions: Genealogies and Trajectories of Change (Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming in 2016) `Beckett, Vichy, Maurras and the Body: Premier Amour and Nouvelles’, in Irish University Review (forthcoming in 2016) `“Nobody Owns”: Ulysses, Tenancy and Property Law’, in James Joyce Quarterly (forthcoming in 2015) `New Inhumanisms: Tom McCarthy and Speculative Realism’, in Dennis Duncan (ed.), Tom McCarthy (forthcoming) `The French Beckett and French Literary Politics 1945-9’, in S.E. Gontarski (ed), Samuel Beckett: A Companion (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming in 2014), pp. 103-16 `Franco-Irish Beckett: Mercier et Camier in 1945–6’, in David Addyman and Peter Fifield (eds.), Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies (London: Bloomsbury, 2013), pp. 19-38 `Thinking Forwards, Turning Back: Joyce’s Writings 1898-1903’, in John Nash (ed.) Joyce and the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. 61-76 `Joyce and the Fowlers: “Eumaeus”, The King’s English and Modern English Usage’, in Brandon R. Kershner and Tekla Mecsnóber (eds.), Joycean Unions: Post-Millennial Essays from East to West (European Joyce Studies 22, Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2013), pp. 225–244. (with Jennifer Levine), `“Ivy Day in the Committee Room”’, in Vicki Mahaffey (ed.), Collaborative Dubliners: Joyce in Dialogue (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2012), pp. 261-95

6 `The Concept of Intermittency: Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason and Contemporary French Philosophy’, in Mads Anders Baggesgaard and Jakob Ladegaard (eds.), Confronting Universalities: Aesthetics and Politics under the Sign of Globalization(Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2011), pp. 55-82 Review of Seán Kennedy and Katherine Weiss (eds.), Samuel Beckett: History, Memory, Archive, in Modernism/Modernity (vol. 18, no. 4, November 2011), pp. 926-928 Review of Max Saunders Self-Impression: Life-Writing, Autobiografiction, and the Forms of Modern Literature, in James Joyce Broadsheet (October, 2011) `“They Came, They Cut Away My Tallest Pines”: Tennyson and the Melancholy of Modernity’, in Martin Middeke and Christina Wald (eds.), The Literature of Melancholia (London: Palgrave, 2011), pp. 101-15 (with Karen Langhelle), `Mount Moriahs and Molehills: Ethics, Dialogue and the Dialogue Novel’, Anglia 129:1-2 (2011), pp. 12-40 `On Not Being Forgivable: Four Meditations on Europe, Islam and the “New World Order”’, in Marian Eide (ed.), Forgiveness, special number of South Central Review, 27.3 (Fall, 2010), pp. 81-103; also available at eprints.rhul.ac.uk/255 Review of Nicholas Allen, Modernism, Ireland and Civil War, James Joyce Literary Supplement (vol. 25. no. 1, Spring 2011) 'Afterword: "the skull the skull the skull the skull in Connemara”: Beckett, Ireland and Elsewhere', in Sean Kennedy (ed.), Beckett and Ireland (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 179-203 `Beckett, de Gaulle and the Fourth Republic 1944-49: L’Innommable and En attendant Godot’, Limit(e) Beckett 1 (autumn 2010), at http://www.limitebeckett.paris-sorbonne.fr/one/gibson.html `Thinking Intermittency’, in William Watkin (ed.), Contemporary Writing Environments, special issue of Textual Practice (vol. 23, no.6, 2010), pp. 1045-66 `Catastrophe in Permanence’, review of Dvid Lloyd, Irish Times: Temporalities of Modernity, James Joyce Literary Supplement (Spring, 2009) `Prolegomena: The Development of the Historical Sense in the Revisions of “Proteus”’, Dublin James Joyce Journal (no. 2, 2009), pp. 106-27 `“All Propagated with the Best Intentions”: Greene, the U.S. and Indochina 1951-55’, Cultural Politics (vol. 4, no. 3, 2008), pp. 289-308 '"Time Drops in Decay": A Portrait of the Artist in History (ii): Chapter 2', in James Joyce Quarterly (vol. 44, no. 4, 2007), pp. 697-718 'Melencolia Illa Heroica: Françoise Proust, Walter Benjamin and “Catastrophe in Permanence”`, in Static 7 at http://static.londonconsortium.com `“Thankless Earth, But Not Entirely”: Event and Remainder in Contemporary Fiction’, in Bárbara Arizti and Sylvia Martínez-Falquina, On the Turn: The Ethics of Fiction in Contemporary Narrative in English (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007), pp. 3-19 Review of Cormac Ó Gráda, Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History, James Joyce Quarterly (vol. 45, no. 1, 2007), pp. 151-54 'Badiou and Deconstruction: the Politics of Reading Beckett', in Martin McQuillan (ed.), Deconstruction Reading Politics (Macmillan, 2007), pp. 146-60

7 `James Joyce’, in Justin Wintle (ed.), New Makers of Modern Culture (London: Routledge, 2007), vol. 1, pp.

775-79 `“That Stubborn Irish Thing”: A Portrait of the Artist in History (i), Chapter One’, in Gibson and Platt (eds.), Joyce, Ireland, Britain (2006), pp. 85-103 Review of Geert Leernout and Wim Van Mierlo (eds), The Reception of James Joyce in Europe, Comparative Critical Studies (vol. 3, no. 3, 2006), pp. 393-401 `“A Dim and Undetermined Sense of Unknown Modes of Being”’: Wordsworth, The Prelude and the Beginnings of Modernity’, Études Anglaises, (vol. 59, no. 3, 2006), pp. 263-78 Review of Jonathan Clark, Our Shadowed Present: Modernism, Postmodernism and History, Clio (vol. 35, no.

2, 2006), pp. 292-98 `Badiou and Beckett: Actual Infinity, Event, Remainder’, Polygraph (no. 17, 2005), pp. 175-203 `“An Irish Bull in an English Chinashop”: Joyce’s “Oxen” and the Cultural Politics of the Anthology’, in Anne Fogarty and Timothy Martin (eds.), Joyce on the Threshold (University of Florida Press, 2005), pp. 91-109 `The Unfinished Song: Intermittency and Melancholy in Rancière’, Paragraph (vol. 28, no. 1, 2005), pp. 61-76 Review of Alain Badiou, Theoretical Writings, ed, and tr. Ray Brassier and Alberto Toscano, Peter Hallward, Badiou: A Subject to Truth, and Peter Hallward (ed.), Think Again: Alain Badiou and the Future of Philosophy, Textual Practice (vol. 19, no. 4, 2005), pp. 560-66 'Serres at the Crossroads', in Niran Abbas (ed.), Michel Serres (University of Michigan Press, 2005), pp. 84-98 `Ethics’, in Michael Groden, Imre Szeman et al. (eds.), The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005), pp. 287-96 `“Only a Foreigner Would Do”: Leopold Bloom, Ireland and Jews’, in Harold Bloom (ed.), Leopold Bloom (Chelsea House, 2004), pp. 143-59 Review of Jeri Johnson (ed.), Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce Broadsheet (2004) `The Rarity of the Event: On Alain Badiou’, New Formations (no. 53, 2004), pp. 136-42 `Repetition and Event: Badiou and Beckett’, Communication and Cognition (vol. 37, nos. 3 and 4, 2004), pp.

263-78 `Between the Void and the Event: Badiou’s Ethics and Aesthetics: Mallarmé versus Rimbaud’, Frame (vol. 17, no. 1, 2003), pp. 27-48 'Three Dialogues and Beckett's Tragic Ethics', in Marius Buning, Matthijs Engelberts, Sjef Houppermans and Danièle de Ruyter-Tognotti, (eds.), Three Dialogues Revisited, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui (2003), pp.

43-54 `Rancière and the Limits of Realism’, in Danuta Fjellestad and Elizabeth Kella (eds.), Realism and Its Discontents (Blekinge Institute of Technology, 2003), pp. 56-69 `Respecting Endings: Kokoro in a European Context’, Poetica (no. 59, 2003), pp. 43-50 'Oublier Baudrillard: Melancholy of the Year 2000', in New Formations (special edition, Remembering the Nineties, Autumn 2003), pp. 123-41

8 `Badiou, Beckett and Contemporary Criticism’, afterword to On Beckett, ed. and tr. Alberto Toscano and Nina Power, with a preface by Alain Badiou (Clinamen, 2003), pp. 119-36 `Altering Images’, in Gibson and Kerr (eds.), London from Punk to Blair (Reaktion, 2003), pp. 203-16 (with research student Jennifer Bavidge), 'The Metropolitan Playground: London's Children' (in Gibson and Kerr, eds., London from Punk to Blair, Reaktion, 2003, pp. 142-57; also published in abridged form in the Times Higher Educational Supplement, 27 November 2003) `Macropolitics and Micropolitics in "Wandering Rocks"’, in Joyce’s “Wandering Rocks” (2002), pp. 27-56 'Badiou and Beckett', in Richard Lane (ed.), Beckett and Philosophy (Macmillan, 2002), pp. 93-107 'Badiou, Beckett, Watt and the Event', in Daniela Caselli, Laura Salisbury and Steven Connor (eds.), Other Becketts (special edition, Journal of Beckett Studies, 2002), pp. 40-52 'Badiou, Beckett et le postmodernisme', in Charles Ramond (ed.), Alain Badiou: Penser le multiple (L'Harmattan, 2002), pp. 421-35 Review of Kevin Barry (ed.), James Joyce: Occasional, Critical and Political Writing, James Joyce Broadsheet (2002) Review of Jill Robbins, Altered States: Levinas and Literature, in Yearbook of English Studies, vol. 32, no. 1 (2002), pp. 335-36 Review of Adriana Cavarero, Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood, Textual Practice¸ vol. 15, no. 2 (2001), pp. 303-7 '"And The Wind Wheezing Through That Organ Once In A While": Voice, Narrative, Film', in New Literary History (special edition on Voice and Human Experience, Summer 2001), pp. 639-57 'Narrative Subtraction', in Jorg Helbig (ed.), Erzählen und Erzähltheorie im 20. Jahrhundert: Festschrift für Wilhelm Füger (Universitätsverlag C.Winter, 2001), pp. 213-31 '"Let All Malthusiasts Go Hang!": Joyce’s "Oxen of the Sun" and Political Economy', in Literature and History (vol. 10, no. 2, 2001), pp. 62-78 Review of Derek Attridge, Joyce Effects: On Language, Theory, History, James Joyce Broadsheet (2001) Review of David Pierce (ed.), Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader, in Times Higher Educational Supplement (1 June, 2001) 'Les Économies de Murphy', in Matthijs Engelberts, Sjef Houppermans, Yann Mével et Michèle Touret, L'affect dans l'œuvre Beckettienne, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui (2000), pp. 85-96 Review of John Wyse Jackson and Peter Costello, John Stanislaus Joyce: The Voluminous Life and Genius of James Joyce's Father, in New Odyssey (vol. 1, no. 6, 2000), pp. 2-3 Review of Edna O’Brien, James Joyce, James Joyce Broadsheet (2000) 'Postmodern Ethics and Sense and Sensibility', in Anne Mellor and Maximilian Novak (eds.), Passionate Encounters in a Time of Sensibility (University of Delaware Press, 2000), pp. 180-97 `'Sensibility and Suffering in Rhys and Nin', in Andrew Hadfield, Dominic Rainsford and Tim Woods (eds.), The Ethics in Literature (Macmillan, 1999), pp. 184-209 'Crossing the Present: Narrative, Alterity and Gender in Postmodern Fiction', in Roger Luckhurst and Peter Marks (eds.), Literature and the Contemporary (Longman, 1999), pp. 179-98

9 Review of Trevor Williams, Reading Joyce Politically, in James Joyce Broadsheet (1999) Review of Joyce Piell Wexler, Who Paid for Modernism? Art, Money and the Fiction of Conrad, Joyce and Lawrence, in James Joyce Quarterly (vol. 36. no. 2, Winter, 1999), pp. 320-24 `Sense of an Ending`, review article on Timothy Murray, Like a Film: Ideological Fantasy on Screen, Camera and Canvas, in Film-Philosophy: Salon Review, vol. 3, no. 7 (February 1999), www.film-philosophy.com/ archive/vol3-1999 Review of Catharina Wulf, The Imperative of Narration: Beckett, Bernhard, Schopenhauer, Lacan, in Modern Language Review (vol. 94, no. 4, 1999), pp. 1179-80 Review article on Monika Fludernik, Towards a `Natural' Narratology, Journal of English Literary Semantics, (vol. XXVI, no. 3, 1997), pp. 234-38 Review of Nick Royle, After Derrida, in Language and Literature (vol. 6, no. 3, 1997), pp. 220-22 Review of Maria Tymoczko, The Irish `Ulysses' , in James Joyce Broadsheet (1998) `Ethics and Unrepresentability: The Case of Heart of Darkness', in Conrad and Theory (1997), pp. 113-37 Review of Robert Spoo, James Joyce and the Language of History, in James Joyce Broadsheet (1997) Review of Vincent Cheng, Joyce, Race and Empire, in New Odyssey (vol. 1, no.4, 1997), pp. 2-3 `Introduction’, Chernaik, Deegan and Gibson (eds.), Beyond the Book: Theory, Culture and the Politics of Cyberspace, pp. 1-11 `Interactive Fiction and Narrative Space’, in Beyond the Book, pp. 79-93 `Introduction’, in Gibson (ed.), Joyce's `Ithaca' (1996), pp. 3-27 `"An Aberration of the Light of Reason": Science and Cultural Politics in “Ithaca”’, in Joyce's `Ithaca', pp. 13375 `Joyce and History’, review article on James Fairhall, James Joyce and the Question of History, English (vol.

XLV, 1996), pp. 166-70 Review of Udaya Kumar, The Joycean Labyrinth: Repetition, Time and Tradition in `Ulysses’, in James Joyce Broadsheet (1995) `Introduction’, Reading Joyce's “Circe” (1994), pp. 3-32 `"Strangers in My House, Bad Manners to Them!": England in “Circe”’, in Reading Joyce's “Circe”, pp. 179221 `Beckett, Derrida, and Monstrosity: The Unnamable’, in Yasunari Takada (ed.), Surprised by Scenes: Essays in Honour of Professor Yasunari Takahashi (Kenkyusha: Tokyo, 1994), pp. 359-74 `Cringing to Pozzo’, Journal of Beckett Studies (vol. 3, no. 2, Summer, 1994), pp. 108-15 `Pound and Joyce: Ulysses, the Cantos and the Shapes of Cultures’, in Pound in Multiple Perspective (1993), pp. 158-88 Review, Helga Schwalm, Dekonstruktion im Roman: Erzähltechnische Verfahren und Selbstreflexion in den Romanen von Vladimir Nabokov und Samuel Beckett, in Slavonic and East European Review (vol. 71, no.2, 1993), pp. 318-19

10 Review of Thomas Staley (ed.), Joyce Studies Annual (1990), in James Joyce Broadsheet (Feb 1992) `Here Comes Everybody`, review article on Susan Dick, Declan Kiberd, Dougald McMillan and Joseph Ronsley (eds.), Omnium Gatherum : Essays for Richard Ellmann, in Yeats Annual (no.10, 1992), pp. 241-44 Review, Brian Atterbery, Strategies of Fantasy, Times Higher Educational Supplement (December 11, 1992), p.

25 `"History, All That": Revival Historiography and Literary Strategy in the “Cyclops” Episode in Ulysses’, in Essays and Studies (1991), pp. 53-70 Review of Bonnie Kime Scott (ed.), New Alliances in Joyce Studies, in James Joyce Broadsheet (June, 1990) `Beckett's Fiction: The Earlier Work`, LJ (vol.1, no.1, 1990), pp. 34-35 `Dickens, Character, Text`, review article on James A. Davies, The Textual Life of Dickens's Characters, The Dickensian (vol.86, no.3, Autumn 1990), pp.186-88 `Larkin and Ordinariness’, in Linda Cookson and Bryan Loughrey (eds.), Critical Essays on Larkin’s Poetry (London: Longmans, l989), pp. 9-20 `Richard II: The Misfit as Hero`, in Linda Cookson and Bryan Loughrey (eds.), Critical Essays on Richard II (London: Longmans, l989), pp. 9-21 `An Added Dimension of the Mind’, review article on Maria Couto, Graham Greene: On the Frontier: Politics and Religion in the Novels; and Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan, Graham Greene's Childless Fathers, English (vol.

XXXVIII, 1989), pp. 273-78 Review of Gottlieb Gaiser (ed.), International Perspectives on James Joyce, in James Joyce Broadsheet (Feb., 1988) Review of Robert D Newman and Weldon Thornton (eds.), `Ulysses’: The Larger Perspective, in James Joyce Broadsheet (Oct., 1988) `Imaginism and Objectivity in Emma’, in Linda Cookson and Bryan Loughrey (eds.), Critical Essays on `Emma’ (London: Longmans, 1988), pp. 69-80 `Sexuality in “The Waste Land”’, in Linda Cookson and Bryan Loughrey (eds.), Critical Essays on “The Waste Land” (London: Longmans, 1988), pp. l07 - ll7 `Malcolm, Macduff and the Structure of Macbeth’, in Linda Cookson and Bryan Loughrey (eds.), Critical Essays on `Macbeth’ (London: Longmans, 1988), pp. 92 -102 Review of Tom Paulin, Ireland and the English Crisis and Lucy McDiarmid, Saving Civilization: Yeats, Eliot and Auden between the Wars, Yeats Annual no.5 (1987), pp. 272-76 Review of Robert Janusko, The Sources and Structures of James Joyce's “Oxen”, in James Joyce Broadsheet (Feb., 1985) `One Kind of Ambiguity in Joyce, Beckett and Robbe-Grillet’, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature (vol. 12, no. 3, September 1985), pp. 409-21 `Comedy of Narrative: Nabokov, Beckett, Robbe-Grillet’, Comparative Literature (vol. 37, no. 2, Spring 1985), pp. 114-39 ``Dangerous Ground`, review article on Michael Long, Marvell, Nabokov: Childhood and Arcadia, English (vol. XXXIV, Spring 1985), pp. 88-91

11 `"Broken Down and Fast Breaking Up": Style, Technique and Vision in the “Eumaeus” Episode in Ulysses’, Southern Review, (vol. 17, November 1984), pp. 22-39 `Henry Green as Experimental Novelist`, Studies in the Novel (vol. 16, no. 2, 1984), pp. 197-215 `Emily Dickinson and the Poetry of Hypothesis’, Essays in Criticism (vol. XXXIII, 1983), pp. 220-237 `Revaluing Clarissa`, review article on Terry Eagleton, The Rape of Clarissa, English (vol. XXXII, 1983), pp.

166-176 `Hemingway on the British`, Hemingway Review (vol. I, no. 2, 1982), pp. 62-75 `Different Dickinsons’, review article on Karl Keller, The Only Kangaroo Among the Beauty: Emily Dickinson and America, and David Porter, Dickinson: The Modern Idiom, English (vol. XXXI, 1982), pp. 68-73 Articles on Stephen Crane, Elizabeth Gaskell and Edgar Allan Poe in Justin Wintle (ed.), Makers of Nineteenth Century Culture: A Biographical Dictionary, (London: Routledge, 1982) Articles on Sinclair Lewis and William Faulkner in Justin Wintle, ed., Makers of Modern Culture: A Biographical Dictionary, (London: Routledge, 1980) `Cunning Passages, Contrived Corridors’, review article on Andrew Sanders, The Victorian Historical Novel 1840-1880, English (vol. XXVIII, 1979), pp. 266-70 `Intermittent Illuminations`, review article on Albert J. Guerard, The Triumph of the Novel: Dickens, Dostoevsky and Faulkner, English (vol. XXVII, 1978), pp. 268-74 Children's Fiction I have also written five novels and a collection of stories for children, published by Faber.

Current Research and Research Interests My major work has been on James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, modern and contemporary philosophy and theory and contemporary French philosophy in particular. The full range of my interests and writings is very much larger than that, and I have written on many different writers, Irish, French, German, English, American and other. I have a serious philosophical expertise. I am one of comparatively few people in the UK and US who can claim, not only an expert knowledge of European literary and critical theory in the postwar decades, but a major and wide-ranging research expertise in contemporary (post-Deleuzean) French philosophy in the original language. I have excellent French (I have published scholarly essays in that language) and a very good reading knowledge of German and Latin. I now work chiefly on intersections between literature, history and philosophy in the modern period (1780-present).

James Joyce I am very much a Joyce scholar, and my Joyce work has a serious international reputation, not least for having introduced a new methodology (a specific form of historical materialism) into Joyce studies. Its importance has been widely recognized. My life of Joyce appeared in 2006. My study of Joyce’s early writings, The Strong Spirit: History, Politics and Aesthetics in the Writings of James Joyce 1898-1915, appeared in 2013. This proceeded according to the same historicizing methodology that I adopted in my earlier Joyce’s Revenge, and asked how Joyce arrived at the extremely complex political and aesthetic positions that I argued are evident in his masterpiece. I have been accumulating materials for a historical study of Finnegans Wake, but this will at the very least take me deep into retirement. I have collaborated on editing various collections of Joyce essays, sometimes with graduate students or colleagues. I have directed a research seminar on Ulysses for twenty-six years, and co-directed one on Finnegans Wake for eight.

12 Samuel Beckett My book on Beckett and Alain Badiou appeared with Oxford University Press in December 2006. I have since written a short historical biography of Beckett, published in 2010 by University of Chicago Press and Reaktion Books. My work now everywhere stresses the need to connect the established tradition of philosophical work on Beckett with the more recent, experimental and ground-breaking turn to historical research, with Badiou, Adorno and Benjamin as major guiding lights. By the same token, I am particularly interested in ways of building bridges between the French and Anglophone traditions in Beckett criticism. My own position is that the philosophical and historical approaches most notably engage with and complement each other through a certain application of Badiou’s thought; but also that, at the current point in time, it is the historical work that most urgently needs to be done. My own remaining work on Beckett will be of this kind. Recently it has been on Beckett and French history, but I do not preclude the possibility of writing on Beckett and Irish history; specifically, Beckett and the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ascendancy from Molyneux to Burke.

Contemporary French Philosophy and Aesthetics\Literature In the nineties, much of my work involved the use of continental European philosophy and literary and critical theory, particularly French theory. This was very much the case with my work on postmodernism. As what was once the radical challenge of postmodernism subsided into a rather conservative orthodoxy, so my philosophical and theoretical interests specifically focussed on new developments in French thought. In particular, I have an expert knowledge of Badiou’s and Jacques Rancière’s philosophical work, and have extended my frame of reference to include other contemporary French philosophers, notably Christian Jambet, Guy Lardreau and Françoise Proust, and, increasingly, a rather different contemporary philosopher, Clément Rosset. I have lectured and given papers on Badiou, Rancière, Proust, Jambet and Lardreau in England, France, the US and elsewhere. My first philosophical work, Intermittency: The Concept of Historical Reason in Recent French Philosophy, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2012.

Keynote Lectures, Invited Presentations, Conference Papers by Invitation 2000-2015 `“Hope is a Geological Grace”: History and Geology in Norman Nicholson’s Non-Fictional Prose and Poetry of the Cumbrian Coast 1948-54’, Irish Sea Symposium, Dublin, September 2014 `“What do we want kowtowing”: Conciliation and Conflict in Dubliners’, Southern California Irish Studies Consortium, University of Santa Barbara, April 2015 `"A New Mode of the Existence of Truth": Rancière and the Beginnings of Literary Modernity 1780-1830’, Program in Critical Theory, University of Berkeley, April 2015 'Historicity and the Disembodied Voice: Aspects of Joyce and Foucault', workshop, Disembodied Voices, Unembodied Narration, Institut fur Englische Philologie, Freie Universitat, Berlin, November 2014 'Dubliners and Irish Melancholic Tradition', Conference, 100 Dubliners, Institute of English Studies, University of London, November 2014 ‘What do we want kowtowing’: Conciliation and Conflict in Dubliners’, James Joyce Research Colloquium: The Centenary of Dubliners, Universirty College Dublin, April 2014 `“Hope is a Geological Grace”: History and Geology in Norman Nicholson’s Non-Fictional Prose and Poetry of the Cumbrian Coast 1948-54’, Irish Sea Symposium, University College Dublin, Humanities Institute, September 2014 `A Mysterious Survival: Contemporary Misanthropy', Finnish Literary Research Society and University of Helsinki, May 2013 `Women, Modernity and Misanthropy: From Edith Sitwell to Sylvia Plath', invited lecture, University of Turku, Finland, November 2013 `“At the Dying Atlantic’s Edge”: Norman Nicholson and the Cumbrian Coast’, Atlantic Archipelagos conference, University of Georgia, April, 2013

13 `James Joyce and Me’, radio interview, RTÉ, Ireland, July 2012 `Anglo-Ireland and the Irish Misanthropic Tradition: Swift, Goldsmith, Beckett’, invited lecture, University of Freiburg, June 2012 `Misanthropy and\as Ethics: The Provocation of Michel Houellebecq’, plenary lecture, HERMES International Research Seminar and HERMES Consortium, Amsterdam, June 2012 `Beckett and Irish Misanthropic Tradition’, lecture, Trinity College Dublin, June 2012 `Franco-Irish Beckett: Mercier and/et Camier in 1946’, plenary lecture, Beckett and the State of Ireland ‘conference, June 2012; also as a presentation to the `Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies’ seminar, University of Oxford, May 2012 `How to read Ulysses’, invited lecture, Oxford Literary Festival, April 2012 `Badiou, Schopenhauer, Wagner’ and `Some Irish Misanthropes’, invited lectures, University of Tokyo, March 2012 `The Impossibility of Union: Joyce’s Exiles and the Third Home Rule Bill’, invited lecture, University of Hong Kong, March 2012 `The Impossibility of Union: Joyce’s Exiles and the Third Home Rule Bill’, James Joyce Birthday Lecture, James Joyce Centre, Dublin, February 2012 `Joyce’s Stephen Hero and Fenian Tradition’, Joyce International Summer School, University College Dublin, July, 2011 Paper, `New Inhumanisms: Tom McCarthy and Speculative Realism’, symposium on the work of Tom McCarthy, Birkbeck College, University of London, July 2011 Lecture, `Joyce’s Dubliners and Post-Famine Culture’, University of Limerick, Ireland, February, 2011 Lectures on `Badiou and Logiques des mondes’ and `Badiou and Flaubert’, Nordic Summer School, Helsinki, Finland, July 2010 `Joyce, Exiles and the summer of 1912’, Twentieth-century Literature Seminar, University of Oxford, 19 May, 2010 ‘Joyce at the Turn of the Century: The Writings 1898-1903’, plenary, conference on Joyce and the Nineteenth Century, University of Durham, 22 April 2010 ‘Beckett, de Gaulle and the Fourth Republic 1946-49: L’Innommable and En Attendant Godot’, the annual Samuel Beckett lecture, Trinity College Dublin, 10 April 2010 Presentation, roundtable on `Is Joyce a Great Writer’?, 22nd International James Joyce Symposium, Prague, 2010 'The Philosophy of Guy Lardreau: Lacan, Kant, Aesthetics', Theory seminar, University of Cambridge, 4 March, 2010 `Repenser la logique de l’intermittence’: Badiou, Platon et Logiques des mondes’, Badiou Conference, Institut Français, Athens and University of Athens, 19 November 2009 `Guy Lardreau, Art and the Failure of Philosophy’, University of Uppsala, 16 November 2009 ‘“His Journey Westward”: History, Modernity, the Great Famine and Joyce’s “The Dead”’, English Department, research seminar, Queen Mary, University of London, 22 October 2009

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‘“His Journey Westward”: History, Modernity and Joyce’s “The Dead”’; The Sophie Kerr Annual Lecture, Washington College, Maryland, USA, October 2009 `Historical Spectres in Beckett’s Trilogie’, `Spectres of Beckett/Spectral Beckett’, inaugural conference of Limit(e) Beckett, Université de Paris IV and VII, 2-3 April, 2009 `A Historico-Genetic Account of Ulysses? “Proteus” and Methodology’, James Joyce Research Workshop, James Joyce Centre, University College Dublin, 16-19 April, 2009 `The Idea of a University: Newman, Joyce and A Portrait of the Artist Chapter 5’, Charles Peake Memorial Lecture, ULEMLA [Extramural Department], June, 2009 Keynote lecture, `“There Gloom The Dark Broad Seas”: Tennyson, Melancholy and “Catastrophe in Permanence”’, conference on Melancholia as European Discourse in English Literary and Cultural History, University of Augsburg, Germany, 25-28 June, 2009 Inaugural lecture (second term): 'Modernity and (Post?)modernity', Scottish Universities International Summer School, University of Edinburgh, 2 August, 2009 [also given 2008, 2007] Carole and Gordon Segal Lecture, 'Stephen Dedalus Among the "Modernities": Devotionalism, Vocationalism and Revivalism in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Chapter 4’ (Northwestern University, 2008) Research seminar, 7 May: 'Beckett and the Irish Diaspora: Murphy as Migrant Novel' (English Department, Northwestern University, 2008) Keynote lecture, `The Concept of Intermittency: Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason and Contemporary French Philosophy’, conference on Confronting Universalities: Aesthetics and Politics in the Age of Globalisation (University of Aarhus, Denmark, 2008) 'From Kojève to Jambet: History, Intermittency, Literature’, Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts’, University of Warwick (January 2008) '"A New Soaring Impalpable Imperishable Being”: Joyce and Revivalist Discourse in Portrait of the Artist, Chapter 4'; Irish Literary Society, London (February 2008) Chair, interviewer and seminar convenor, Alain Badiou in London, sponsored by Royal Holloway Humanities and Arts Research Centre and the British Library, 4-5 April 2007 `"The Unfinished Song” (ii): Intermittency and Melancholy in Rancière’, Humanities and Arts Research Centre, Royal Holloway, 2007 `The French Beckett’, (Beckett’s Nations, Beckett Centenary Programme, the Barbican, 2006) 'Françoise Proust, Walter Benjamin et l'intempestif', ('Lire et relire le présent', research seminar series, Université de Paris VII, 2006) 'The Irish Remainder: More Pricks Than Kicks’, (conference on Samuel Beckett, École normale supérieure, Paris, 2006) `Intellectual Autobiography of a Joyce Scholar' (University of Pennsylvania, 2005) '"Every Sin Has A History": A Portrait of the Artist in History (iii), Chapter 3' (Modernism seminar, University of London, 2005)

15 'Joyce En Route to Ulysses: The Triestine Writings 1907-12' (Fund for Irish Studies lecture, Princeton University, 2005) `Joyce and the Fowlers: “Eumaeus”, The King’s English and Modern English Usage’ (20th International Joyce Symposium, Budapest, 2006) `“Thankless Earth, But Not Entirely”: Narrative, Event and Remainder’ (keynote lecture, conference on The Ethics of Contemporary Narrative Fiction, Zaragoza, 2006) `“All Propagated with the Best Intentions”: Greene, the U.S. and Indochina 1951-55’ (conference on Literature and the Cold War, Institute of English Studies, University of London, 2005) `Françoise Proust and Walter Benjamin’ (English research seminar, University of Sussex, 2005) `Joyce, Agamben, Améry and the Ethics of Resentment’ (19th International James Joyce Symposium, Dublin, 2004) `Actual Infinity, Event, Remainder’ (keynote lecture, conference on Contemporary Writing Environments, Brunel University, 2004) `Badiou and Françoise Proust’ (conference on Badiou’s Ethics and Subjectivity, London Metropolitan University, 2004) `Alain Badiou and the Theatre’, London CIVICCentre, Reclaiming the Right to Performance, London, 9 April 2003 '"Il faut construire une nouvelle scène": Stevens et "la poésie moderne"' (Philosophie, art et littérature seminar, Collège international de philosophie, Paris, 2003) `Why Not Melancholy?’ (conference on The Philosophy of Jacques Rancière, Institute of Romance Studies, the University of London, 2003) `Joyce’s “Cyclops”’ (English seminar, Trinity College, Dublin, 2003) `A Portrait of the Artist in History: Chapter 2’ (public lecture, Trinity College, Dublin, 2003) `Portrait and Colonial Bildung: Chapter 1’ (Twentieth-Century Literature Seminar, University of Oxford, 2003) `Historical Portrait’ (International James Joyce Summer School, Trieste, 2003) 'Joyce's Telemachiad’ (University of Gothenburg, 2003) 'Temporalities of Melancholy' (conference on Culture and Melancholy, University of Kent, 2002) `Rancière's Aesthetics’ (Scandinavian Summer School of Literature and Theory, 2002) `The Inaesthetic’ (Scandinavian Summer School of Literature and Theory, 2002) 'Ethics of Particularism’ (18th International Joyce Symposium, Trieste, 2002) `The End of All Resistance: Joyce’s “Penelope”’ (English research seminar, University of Leeds, 2002) `“Upstart Journals” and the “Starved Soul of Womanhood”: the “Nausicaa” Episode in Ulysses’, English research seminar, University of York, November 2002 `Badiou, Beckett, Love, Enough’ (English research seminar, University of Cardiff, 2002)

16 `Blanchot, Woolf and Writing the Neuter’ (University of London, Institute of English Studies, Gender and Sexuality series, March 2002) `The Trace of Melancholy’ (Ethics and Aesthetics series, Institute of English Studies, University of London (January 2001) `Rancière and the "Limit" of Realism’ (Scandinavian Summer School of Literature and Theory, 2001) `"An Irish Bull in an English Chinashop": "Oxen" and the Anthologies’ (17th International James Joyce Symposium, Goldsmiths College, University of London, 2000) `Oublier Baudrillard: Melancholy of the Year 2000`, (Remembering the Nineties, Birkbeck College, September 2000) `Irigaray, Post-Cartesianism and Film Theory’ (conference on Literature, Film and Modernity 1880-1940, Institute of English Studies, University of London, January, 2000) `“And I Belong to a Race, Too, That is Hated and Persecuted”’: Joyce, Bloom, Ireland and its Jews 1880-1920’ (Literature, Theory, Politics: Jewish Textualities series, Institute of English Studies, University of London, 2000) `Badiou, Beckett, Watt and the Event’ (plenary lecture, Another Beckett Conference, Birkbeck College, University of London, June 2000 Intercollegiate and other Major Lectures and Presentations 1980-2000 `Serres at the Crossroads` (Conference on Michel Serres, Birkbeck College, May, 1999) `Badiou, Beckett and Deconstruction` (Conference on Deconstruction Reading Politics, University of Staffordshire, July, 1999) `Badiou, Beckett et le Postmodernisme` (Colloque Alain Badiou: la pensée forte, Université de Bordeaux, October, 1999) `Shakespeares: Yeats, Dowden, Dedalus, Joyce` (Conference on The “Scylla and Charybdis” Chapter in `Ulysses', Institute of English Studies, University of London, November, 1999) `Les Économies de Murphy’ (Colloquium, L'humanité de Beckett: Beckett et l'affect, Université de Rennes, December, 1999) `Joyce's “Telemachiad”: History, Politics, Aesthetics’ (James Joyce Annual Summer School, Dublin, 1998) `Excesses and Resistances: the Matter of Film’ (Centre for English Studies, University of London, 1998) `Badiou and Beckett` (Samuel Beckett Postgraduate Research Seminar, University of Reading, 1998) `Proustian Ethics: Reversibility in the Recherche’ (Research Seminar, English Department, Royal Holloway, 1998) `Postmodern Ethics and the “Dissolution of the Novel”’, (postgraduate seminar, University College London, 1997) `Narration and Alterity: James and Cather`, (research seminar, University of Kent, 1997) `Postmodernism, England and the Nineties` (University of Tokyo, 1997)

17 `The Liberators: Joyce, O'Connell and Ulysses’ (University of Tokyo, 1997) `English in English Universities Today` (University of Tokyo, 1997) `Writing for Children` (University of Tokyo, 1997) `Postmodern Ethics and Beckett's Later Prose`, (Samuel Beckett Postgraduate Research Seminar, University of Reading, 1996) `Postmodern Ethics and Reception Theory`, (Graduate Colloquium, University of Sussex, 1996) `Sensibility and Suffering in Rhys and Nin`, (Conference on Literature and Ethics, University of Aberystwyth, 1996) `Micropolitics in “Wandering Rocks”’, (Conference on the "Wandering Rocks" Episode in Ulysses, Centre for English Studies, University of London, 1996) `Concepts of Sensibility in Jane Austen and Postmodern Ethics`, (Conference on Contesting Conservatism: Jane Austen and the Ethics of Modernity, Centre for English Studies, University of London, 1996) `Postmodernism, London and the Novel`, Institut d'études anglaises et nord-américaines, Université de ParisSorbonne IV (November, 1996) `What is Postmodernism`?, (English Association Sixth Form Conference, 1995) `Interactive Fiction and Narrative Space`, (Conference on Theory and Computing Culture, London University Centre for English Studies, 1995) `"An Aberration of the Light of Reason": Science and Cultural Politics in the “Ithaca” Episode in Ulysses`, (Conference on the "Ithaca" episode in Ulysses, Leeds University, February, 1995) `Ethics and Unrepresentability in Heart of Darkness`, (Twenty First International Conference of the Joseph Conrad Society [U.K.], 1995) `Theory, Computing, Narrative`, (Computing and Teaching in the Humanities Conference, RHUL, 1995) `Postmodern Ethics and the Theory of the Novel’, (third ESSE Conference, University of Glasgow, 1995) `Theory, Politics, Narratology: Reading Serres` (London University Centre for English Studies, Spring, 1994) `Writing in the Shadow of the Classics`, (History Workshop Popular Literature Group Conference on Children's Literature: the Nineteenth Century, June, 1994) `Reading Joyce's “Circe”’ (James Joyce Society of London, June 1994) `Critical Theory and Contemporary English Culture` (London University Summer School, 1994) `Joyce's “Telemachiad”` (Birkbeck College, 1993) `Malraux, Le Carré and Hong Kong’, (Thirty Eighth International Conference of Asian and North African Studies, on Postcolonial Theory, University of Hong Kong, 1993) `Beckett and Eventfulness’, Panel on Beckett and Postmodern Aesthetics, (Second International Samuel Beckett Symposium, The Hague, 1992) `Beckett, Deleuze and Monstrosity: Malone Dies', (Conference, Beckett International Foundation, Reading University, Summer 1993)

18 `A Man of the Thirties: Graham Greene's Early Fiction` (London University Summer School, 1992) `Beckett and Monstrosity` (London University Summer School, 1992) `An Introduction to Literary Theory` (Charles Peake Memorial Lecture, ULEMLA [Extramural Department], London University, 1992) `Derrida, Narrative and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde` (College of Ripon and York St John, 1991) `Understanding Division: Some English and American Approaches to the Criticism of Poetry and “The Whitsun Weddings”’ (University of Würzburg, West Germany, 1989) `Interview with the novelist Timothy Mo` (London University Summer School, 1989) `The “Cyclops” Episode in Ulysses` (Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, 1989) `The Irishness of Joyce` (Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary, 1989) `Joyce, Griffith, Hungary, Bloom` (Janus Pannonius University, Pecs, Hungary, 1989) `Anti-Narratives: Beckett from `Assumption` to The Unnamable` (London University Summer School, l988) `A Different Kind of Discourse: Samuel Beckett's Early Prose` (British Council, Tokyo, l988) `Bright Lights, Big Cities, Moronic Infernos: Postmodern Images of America in the Work of Some Recent British and American Novelists`, (Conference on American Visions, Visions of America, University of Hong Kong, 1988) `Pound and Joyce: Ulysses, the Cantos and the Shapes of Cultures` (intercollegiate lecture, University of London, 1987) `Narrator and Narrative in Tristram Shandy` (Charles University, Prague and Comenius University, Bratislava, 1987) `Michel Foucault and Modern Literature` (intercollegiate lecture, 1987) `The Doubleness of Joyce's Ulysses` (American Summer School, Trinity College, Oxford, 1986) `“The Oxen of the Sun” Episode in Ulysses: The Monsters and the Critics’ (postgraduate seminar, University College London, 1985) `Another Look at the Peacock in “The Oxen of the Sun” Episode in Ulysses’, (James Joyce Stiftung, Zürich, 1985) `Ezra Pound: "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley" and the Cantos` (ULEMLA [Extramural Department], University of London, 1985) "Penelope" and the Structure of Ulysses’ (intercollegiate lecture, University of London, 1985) `Poetry of Meditation in America: Taylor, Dickinson, Stevens’ (Institute of United States Studies, University of London, 1985) `Narrative and Quixotry: Cervantes's Book of Transformations` (intercollegiate lecture, University of London, 1984) `Making Representations: Letters as Narrative in Clarissa’, (intercollegiate lecture, University of London, 1984) `Tristram Shandy and the Conduct of Narrators’ (intercollegiate lecture, University of London, 1984)

19 `Performing the Negative: The Trial, The Castle and the Limits of Narrative’ (intercollegiate lecture, University of London, 1984) `House of Supposition: Emily Dickinson's Imagination` (intercollegiate lecture, University of London, 1982) Conferences Organized Theory and Computing Culture, London University Centre for English Studies, 1995. My own paper was on `Interactive Fiction and Narrative Space.'

The `Ithaca' Episode in Ulysses, Leeds University, February, 1995 (jointly organized by the Leeds and London University Joyce Research Groups). My own paper was on `Science and Cultural Politics in "Ithaca"'.

The `Wandering Rocks' Chapter in Ulysses, London University Centre for English Studies, February, 1996 (jointly organized by the Leeds and London University Joyce Research Groups). My own paper was on `Micropolitics in "Wandering Rocks"'.

The `Nausicaa' Episode in Ulysses, Leeds University, February, 1997 (jointly organized by the Leeds and London University Joyce Research Groups). My own presentation (with Robert Hampson) was on `Nausicaa' ll.

1143ff.

The `Scylla and Charybdis' Chapter in Ulysses, London University Institute of English Studies, November, 1999 (jointly organized by the Leeds and London University Joyce Research Groups). My own paper was on `Shakespeares: Yeats, Dowden, Dedalus, Joyce').

Seventeenth International James Joyce Symposium, Goldsmiths College, June 2000 (Member of Organizing Committee, 1999-2000) London: Hell or High Water?, conference at the Museum of London jointly organized for RHUL with the Royal College of Art, the Museum of London and Reaktion Books, (2003). I interviewed the novelist Will Self.

Seminar Series Organized Chair and convenor of Jacques Rancière’s lecture and seminars for the Institute of English Studies, University of London, March 2012.

In 1998-99, together with the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, I organized a series of talks on Theory and Internationalism. Contributors included Rosi Braidotti, Rey Chow, Drucilla Cornell, Kojin Karatani, Irit Rogoff and Gianni Vattimo.

In 1997-98, I served as Chair of the Research Seminar in Literature, Theory and Politics at the Centre for English Studies, University of London, where I organized a year-long series of seminars on Materialisms.

International contributors included Isobel Armstrong, Alain Badiou, Steven Connor, Drucilla Cornell, Simon Critchley, Thomas Docherty and Luce Irigaray.

Other Conference Presentations Joyce's `Circe' ll. 4511ff.: Close Textual Analysis, Eighth International James Joyce Symposium, 1991 (with other members of the London University Ulysses Research Seminar).

I organized and chaired one of the panels at the International Conference on Narrative at the University of Nice in June 1991. The panel was on Derrida and Narrative. The other contributors were Steven Connor and Thomas Docherty. My own paper was on `Derrida and Narrative Theory'.

Reading `Nausicaa' ll. 981ff.: Close Textual Analysis, Thirteenth International James Joyce Symposium, 1996

20 (three sessions, with other members of the London University Ulysses Research Seminar). `Penelope' ll. 246ff.: Close Textual Analysis, Fifteenth International Joyce Symposium, 1998 (three sessions, with members of the Leeds University Joyce Group and the London University Ulysses Research Seminar) `Calypso' ll.1ff.: Close Textual Analysis, Seventeenth International Joyce Symposium, 2000 (four sessions with members of the London University Ulysses Research Seminar) Research Students My research students awarded their doctorates are: Mark Sutton ('"All Livia's Daughtersons": Death and the Dead in the Prose Fiction of James Joyce') Shu-I Chen ('The Dialogicality of Interior Monologue in Ulysses') Steven Morrison ('Heresy, Heretics and Heresiarchs in the Work of James Joyce') Jamie Russell ('Bodies of Light: Masculinity, Homosexuality and Askesis in the Novels of William Burroughs') David Rudrum ('Wittgenstein and the Theory of Narrative') Jennifer Bavidge ('Representations of Urban Space in the Postmodern Novel') Ralph Strehle ('Postmodern Ethics and Reception Theory') John Deamer ('Samuel Beckett and the Theory of the Event') Stefania Cassar ('Representations of Science and Scientists in Contemporary British Fiction') David Addyman (`Samuel Beckett and the Treatment of Place’) Wei-Min Seetoh (`Writing the Postcolonial City: London and Singapore’) Eva Aldea (`A New Theory of Magic Realism’) Sean Miller (`The Cultural Currency of String Theory’) Peter Johnston (`"Presences of the Infinite": J.M. Coetzee and Mathematics') Brian Fox ('land of breach of promise': James Joyce and America) Other students working with me are: Natalie Leeder (`Freedom and Negativity in the Works of Samuel Beckett and Theodor Adorno’) Ursula Clayton (`“Time’s Flies”: Shakespeare’s Parasites)

Administrative and Other Duties Appointing Committees I have sat on numerous and varied appointment committees over the years, most recently, as adviser on distinguished Chair of English at Uppsala University, the Chair of Visual Culture at Goldsmiths’ College,

21 University of London, the Research Chair in English at Queen Mary College, University of London and the Chair in English at the University of Reading. I have also served as an external assessor for many senior promotions in London University and elsewhere, including University College Dublin. In 2012, I advised on a senior promotion at the University of Oregon.

University Administration 1997-98

Research Seminar Chair, Centre for English Studies

1996-2008

Member of Subject Area Board E (Humanities)

1996-2008

Member of Directory of Expertise in English

1991-96

Chair of Panel of Visiting and External Examiners for Course Unit English

1990

Assistant Chair, Board of Examiners in English

1988

Chair, Nominations Sub-committee for Board of Studies in English

1988

Member of Committee of Chairs of Examiners for the Combined Studies degree

1987-88

Chair, Board of Examiners in English

1987

Chair, Sub-committee on Modern Literature syllabus

1986-87

Assistant Chair, Board of Examiners in English

College Administration 1998-99

Chair of Organizing Committee, RHC Annexe (central London)

1995-

Member of Organizing Committee, RHC Annexe (central London)

1991-94

Member of the Academic Planning Committee

1991-94

Member of the Overseas Recruitment Committee

1991-93

Member of the Academic Board

1990-93

Member of Japan Committee

1989-90

Joint Organizer (with Professor M. Durrell) of the Erasmus Intensive European Collaborative Seminar held at RHBNC for a fortnight in April l990.

1989-90

Departmental Representative on the European Studies Degree Committee

1985

Departmental Representative on the Advisory Committee for Departmental Review in English after the merger between Royal Holloway and Bedford Colleges

1980-82

Secretary [deputy Dean] to the Faculty of Arts, Royal Holloway College Member of House Sub-committee Member of Safety Committee

22 Departmental Administration 1998- 2006

Member of Postgraduate Committee Member of Promotions Committee Member of Sabbatical Leave Committee

1998-2000

Director, Departmental Research Centre, central London

1997-98

Research Seminar Chair, Centre for English Studies

1995-2003

Staff Appraiser

1995-96

Chair of the Board of Examiners for the BA in English

1994-

Finance Officer and Chair of Finance Committee

1994-2003

Chair of the Board of Examiners for the MA in Postmodernism, Literature and Contemporary Culture

1994-95

Assistant Chair of the Board of Examiners for the BA in English

1993-96

Member of Enterprise and Initiative Committee

1993-94

Chair of the Board of Examiners for the BA in English

1991-

Member of Research Committee

1990-91

Chair of the Board of Examiners for the MA in Classic Modern Writing in English

1988-92

Erasmus Representative

1989-92

European Studies Representative

1979-88

Syllabus Options Tutor

Examining 1979

Intercollegiate Examiner in Drama and Theatre Studies, Institute of Education, University of London

1980-81

External Examiner, Chelsea College, University of London

1981-83

Intercollegiate Examiner for the University of London's M.A. in Modern Literature

1981-86

Intercollegiate Examiner in American Studies, Institute of Education, University of London

1986-90

External Examiner, M.A., Literature in Crisis 1900-1930, Hatfield Polytechnic

1989-91

Intercollegiate Examiner for the Humanities Programme, Imperial College, University of London

1991-92

External Examiner in American Literature for the Department of Extramural Studies, University of London

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External Examiner for the BA in English, Birkbeck College, University of London

1995-98

External Examiner for the BA in English and the BA in European Studies, University of Sussex

1997-

External Examiner for the BA in English at the University of Reading

2000-2

External Examiner for MA in Modern English Studies, University of Kent

2000-3

External Examiner for the MA in Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Hong Kong

2012-15

External Examiner for the BA and MA in Literature and Philosophy, University of Warwick

I have examined PhDs for the following institutions: the Universities of Durham, Kent, Sussex, Aberystwyth, Edinburgh, Leeds, York and Reading; Birkbeck, Goldsmiths’ and University Colleges, London; University College and Trinity College Dublin; St Patrick’s, Dublin; the University of Nanterre in Paris; the universities of Lund, Gothenberg and Stockholm in Sweden; and the University of New South Wales, Australia..

Academic Work Abroad (pre-2000) In 1981, I visited Ain Shams University, Cairo, where I lectured, and advised postgraduates.

In 1987, I undertook a British Council Specialist Tour of Czechoslovakia. I engaged in research in the State Archives and the Museum of Modern Literature, Prague; and lectured at Charles University, Prague and Comenius University, Bratislava. I also gave an interview to Czechoslovakian National Radio.

In l988, I visited Hong Kong, where I gave a paper at the annual conference on Literary Theory. I also visited various schools and colleges in Hong Kong, where I lectured on Joyce and Larkin, and did publicity work for the college. I also visited Tokyo, where I lectured at the British Council on Samuel Beckett. I visited Keio, Meiji Gakuin and Tamagawa Universities and the International Christian University and Tokyo International College, publicizing the college and attempting to recruit students. The exchange agreement College now has with the International Christian University is the direct result of my efforts.

In 1989, together with a party of students from Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, I attended the Intensive European Collaborative Seminar at the University of Würzburg in West Germany. I gave a lecture on English and American approaches to poetry, and chaired a two-week series of seminars on National Traditions of Literary Criticism in France, England and Germany.

In 1989, I undertook a British Council Specialist Tour of Hungary. I engaged in research in the Lukacs Archives and at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest; and lectured at Eotvos Lorand University, Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen and Janos Pannonius University, Pecs.

In June 1990 I visited Japan as College representative and part of the Japan Club Mission. I participated in the Japan Club Mission presentations in Kyoto and Tokyo on behalf of the College, publicizing the college and attempting to recruit students. I also visited Doshisha Women's University and Kyoto University in Kyoto, and Keio and Waseda Universities and other educational institutions in Tokyo. I also visited Tamagawa and International Christian Universities in Tokyo, in order to firm up exchange and other arrangements the College is developing with the two institutions.

In November and December 1990 I visited Japan again. I gave a paper entitled Revising God's Order : the `Penelope' Episode in Ulysses to the staff seminar at Kyoto University, and at Chiba University, Tokyo. I also gave a lecture on Modernism, Postmodernism and Anti-Modernism in the Modern British and American Novel at Tamagawa University, Tokyo. I gave a presentation at the British Council in Kyoto, and visited Aoyama Gakuin, Chiba and the International Christian Universities in Tokyo.

24 In June 1992 I made another trip to Japan to publicize and recruit for the College. I visited Shoin Women's University and Kobe College in Kobe; Kansai University in Osaka; and Tamagawa, Meiji Gakuin, International Christian, Reitaku and Sophia Universities in Tokyo. College developed an exchange agreement with Sophia University as a result of my work and overtures I made.

In 1997 I was invited to give a set of lectures on various aspects of my work at the University of Tokyo. I lectured on Postmodernism, England and the Nineties; The Liberators: Joyce, O'Connell and `Ulysses'; English in English Universities Today; and Writing for Children.

I gave research papers and led research seminars on all of these occasions. From 1987 to 1993, I worked at overseas recruitment for Royal Holloway in Japan and Hong Kong. The twenty-year success of Royal Holloway in sustaining academic links with Japanese institutions and recruiting Japanese students is in large part the result of my original initiatives.

Other I have been a regular reader of typescripts for Oxford University Press, with whom I have had close contact, a less regular one for Cambridge University Press, and an occasional reader for other presses.

Teaching Profile From January 2002 until September 2014, I benefited in turn from long research leave, a Leverhulme Research Fellowship and a new contract as a research professor. I did not teach either BA or MA students during this period, though I was engaged in extensive PhD supervision. The record below is largely of my teaching 19772002.

Undergraduate teaching: from 1977 to 1991 I was responsible for a large part of the department's teaching in English, European and American fiction. I was jointly responsible for planning, designing and teaching the department's lecture courses on a) the eighteenth-century novel, where I regularly contributed lectures on Swift, Sterne, Richardson and the Sentimental Novel; b) the twentieth-century novel, with lectures on Joyce, Lawrence and Beckett. I was also responsible for some years for planning and delivering the lectures on Austen on the nineteenth-century novel course, and for planning, designing and teaching the majority of the lectures on American fiction on our two-year American Literature course. I also contributed a term of lectures on early American Literature (1620-1800) to the same course. The content and presentation of this course were regarded by students as very satisfactory, and examination results on it were generally good, with a good proportion of students being awarded upper second or first class marks. I also frequently taught a first year poetry seminar.

During the same period, I also regularly tutored in all the following areas: Shakespeare, the Renaissance, eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, American Literature, the Novel, Modern Drama (including European) and Literary Criticism (including European).

From 1977 to 1996, I was also responsible for the innovative development and the planning and designing of and most of the teaching on the two-year course (Special Option) on the Novel, consisting of European fiction in translation. Over the years, this course was repeatedly praised by students. In its last three years, for instance, all students taking the course rated it either excellent or highly satisfactory. Examination results were always good, with a preponderance of upper second and first class marks. In 1995, for example, more than 50% of the students taking the Novel were awarded grades of B++ and above. During the same period, I also regularly contributed classes on various modern critics to the course in Literary Criticism.

It was after 1991, however, that my contributions to departmental teaching were most original, innovative and ground-breaking. Until the late 90s, I continued to lecture on eighteenth- and twentieth-century literature, expanding my repertoire in both cases. I also continued to tutor in Shakespeare, eighteenth-century and twentieth-century literature, American Literature and the Novel. From 1991 to 2001, however, most of my time was increasingly given over to the specialized teaching of theory and twentieth-century literature (especially Modernism and Postmodernism, including European and especially French material in translation). I was responsible for introducing Literary and Critical Theory, now more or less taken for granted as part of the core curriculum in many English departments including RHUL’s, not to mention other subject areas. I designed, planned and delivered a full term's lectures on Critical and Theoretical Questions and devised and taught two

25 full terms of supporting seminars for this course. Students regularly commended the course as highly satisfactory — difficult, but rewarding. In 2000, this course became a specialized option. In 2000-2001, it was given the highest possible rating by 100% of students taking it. With the change to a course-unit system, I also designed and planned three new courses on The Modern Irish Novel: Joyce and Beckett; The Novel; Postmodernism; and Representing the Capital: London, Literature and Contemporary Culture. Student feedback on the courses taught then — the first and third — was very gratifying, with almost every student rating the courses 4 or 5 (highly satisfactory or excellent). The undergraduate course in Postmodernism was partly intended to lead interested and able students on to our highly successful new MA in Postmodernism, Literature and Contemporary Culture (see below). I also taught on the first-year course on Critical Analysis (Poetry).

Since September 2014, as a half-retired, part-time teacher in the department, I have been teaching two courses, one on The Works of Samuel Beckett, the other on Byron, Modernity and Europe. b) MA teaching: I contributed substantially to our established MA in Modernism and Modern Writers. I regularly provided a series of seminars on Joyce, and frequently taught some or most of the seminars on Pound.

I was also responsible for much of the teaching on the one-term course on Critical Contexts (for Modern Literature). I was responsible for originating, designing and developing our MA in Postmodernism, Literature and Contemporary Culture, which started in 1994. I taught the core course (in Postmodernism and Contemporary Theory) and also contributed to the courses in Popular Culture and Cultural Value, Critical Theory and Postmodern Fiction. In 1999-2000, I devised a new full unit on Contemporary Londons, which ran for the first time in 2000-2001. Within two years of its inception, the MA became one of the two or three fastest growing MAs in the College, and the most highly subscribed and successful MA in the English department, and remained so until 2002. Results were good, with a good proportion of distinctions, only one fail in 10 years, and a number of students in each year moving on to do research within the department. The MA was redesigned and expanded in 1997-98. In the past, I have also been responsible for setting up links between the Postmodernism MA and the graduate programme at the Institut d'Études Anglaises et Nord-Américaines at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne IV. Finally, the department's MA in Narrative, Literature and Culture (now discontinued) was developed by Dr Dzelzainis and Dr Gilmartin out of an original idea of my own. European and especially French material in translation formed a more or less sizeable part of various courses on these MAs. Review Extracts (since 2000): A Selection It is increasingly impossible to keep track of all reviews, but here are a few extracts (up to 2012): Joyce’s Revenge `I had been wondering if history and politics in Ulysses were such well-mined veins that only materials for articles and monographs remained. Happily, Andrew Gibson’s superb study dispelled my doubts.’ James Fairhall, James Joyce Quarterly `It is hard to pay sufficient tribute to Gibson’s keenly detailed research and grasp of nuance in his discussion of the web of relations conjoining the powerful and the powerless’. James Fairhall, James Joyce Quarterly `Joyce’s Revenge’ deserves to become one of the landmarks in criticism devoted to Ulysses. Several chapters alone are worth the price of the book. For example, Gibson’s research on Gibraltar, fascinating in itself, deepens and enriches our understanding of Molly in a way that is unlikely to become outmoded’. James Fairhall, James Joyce Quarterly `Joyce’s Revenge stands as a pinnacle of Joyce studies, a culmination and climax of the historicist turn that the field had taken in the previous decade’. Ronan McDonald, Textual Practice 'Joyce's Revenge splendidly serves to show us how significant is a scrutiny of the intertwined history of Britain and Ireland for understanding the radical aesthetics of Ulysses. This is a book that will keep Joyce scholars busy, and rightly so, for some time to come.' Irish Studies Review

26 'Aside from Joyce scholars those working more generally in Irish Studies should also read the book, as it indicates how closely Ulysses is an intervention into the crucial debates around history, culture, and national identity that shaped Ireland from the end of the nineteenth century.' Irish Studies Review `Almost every page shows evidence of the most scrupulous research into the text, and is almost always persuasive in its arguments. Joyce's Revenge is a genuinely innovative and fascinating account of Ulysses; undoubtedly it will change the contours of Joyce criticism with its profoundly historicised discussion of Joyce's relation to Britain and Ireland.' Irish Studies Review Gibson's nuanced historicist semi-colonial reading is particularly effective in the interpretation of the most challenging parts of the novel, especially the last three episodes.' Clare Hutton, Times Literary Supplement 'This thought-provoking study makes a significant and highly original contribution to scholarship on Ulysses ... a particular strength of this book is the way in which it seeks to interpret the aesthetic of Ulysses as a whole, rather than focusing on a few key features or episodes.' Clare Hutton, Times Literary Supplement 'Andrew Gibson mentions that it took him fifteen years to write Joyce's Revenge. It's remarkable that he was able to produce this challenging, original study with its dense and learned historical detail that quickly. The book was worth waiting for.' Jean-Paul Riquelme, James Joyce Broadsheet 'Joyce's Revenge makes a significant and distinctive contribution to Joyce studies, and it deserves a wide readership. The author is impressively well read in English and Irish cultural history, and the book identifies and explores an aspect of this history about which most Joyceans, perhaps, know less than they might. Among the books on Joyce I've studied recently this is perhaps the most absorbing read, cover to cover, of all of them.'

Timothy Martin, James Joyce Literary Supplement `Gibson's detailed reading of Ulysses against the background of its intertextual archive provides highly revealing and often surprising insights into Joyce's deconstructive representation of the ideological forces at work both in England and Ireland. Joyce's Revenge combines a masterly analytical approach with a supreme grasp of theory, intellectual rigour and a convincing power of persuasion. Among the many books on our shelves produced by the Joyce industry, Gibson's will figure among the first things to read on Ulysses.'

Wolfgang Wicht, Anglia 'The true distinction of Joyce's Revenge lies in its density. This comes in two forms: intellectual and historical.

Every page in this book feels hard-won; every argument is sophisticated enough to include a host of variations, or a sequence of counter-arguments. There is almost a hint of Hegel or Adorno in Gibson's thought, the unremitting intensity with which a position is carried through in all its exemplification, then inverted with equal rigour.' Joseph Brooker, Textual Practice 'Joyce's Revenge deserves more than a review: better a colloquium dedicated to following its myriad trails. For all the headlong pursuit of its argument, its chapters are also diversions in themselves, localized and surprising.'

Joseph Brooker, Textual Practice 'Political Joyce' is not new. Its task must now be to age wisely: to root its claims not in theoretical fashion but in deep historical soil. No one has yet undertaken this task with more care and skill than Andrew Gibson.' Joseph Brooker, Textual Practice 'Andrew Gibson combines a wealth of knowledge and research ... with an admirable sensitivity to the Joycean text. The book has much to do with what postcolonial theory calls 'hybridity' and 'mimicry', but is also densely and precisely historicized ... Joyce's Revenge immerses itself in a broad range of specific cultural discourses on subjects from nationalist politics to medical debates to the politics of street names, the politics of Shakespeare and bardolatry, Protestant-Catholic relations, Jewishness, Irish historiography, women's journals, and astronomy. The result is an important new study that will alter the ways we read Ulysses.' Professor Vincent J. Cheng, University of Utah

27 'Andrew Gibson's is easily one of the most serious of academic books to have appeared on Joyce in recent years.

It is densely researched, full of ideas, and well-embedded in current academic questions, and is sure to become a familiar point of reference in future debates as well as a standard to which subsequent researchers will have to aspire.' Richard Brown, Modernism/Modernity `Andrew Gibson has written a book to be mined for decades to come for its unique historical insight, its extraordinary attention to detail and its powerful theoretical grasp. Joyce's Revenge is the kind of rare book one compulsively recommends to students and friends'. Marian Eide, South Central Review `Andrew Gibson's book presents a convincing and fruitful method to interpret Ulysses. It also ― unlike many students of Joyce ― takes Joyce seriously as both a thinker and an artist ... The worth of any theory is not in its cleverness but in its explanatory value. On this basis Gibson's book is a success and a most refreshing one.' The Compulsive Reader Review Extracts: James Joyce: A Critical Life `The strength of Gibson’s scholarship lies in his confident grasp of the social, intellectual and religious details of Anglo-Irish history, science and material culture out of which Joyce’s work sprung…His books on Joyce prove the mischievous contention of George Bernard Shaw that Ireland is one of the last spots on earth still generating the ideal Englishman of history…It may be that his own rereading of Joyce’s masterpieces is a chapter of the moral history of England and its liberation too.’ Declan Kiberd, Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature, University College Dublin `[In Joyce’s Revenge], with critical acumen and subtle scholarship, Gibson mapped out a radically new approach to Joyce and Ulysses…here the concentration is on the work in the context of the life…This is an important study that should send us all back to the master’s scriptures with wiped eyes and big questions’. Gerry Dukes, Irish Independent `The care with which Gibson analyses the play Exiles in his study is essential reading, as is his change in perspective regarding Ulysses itself, where he emphasizes the novel’s profoundly Irish historical and existential freight’. El Pais `Gibson’s focus on Joyce’s Irishness produces original and provocative readings not only of Joyce’s works, but also of key moments in his life and even of his work habits….James Joyce makes for engrossing and satisfying reading. Gibson’s knowledge of Irish history, like his prose, is impeccable’. James Joyce Literary Supplement `There is an elegance to the whole package, and especially to Gibson’s writing…his skill at conveying quantities of information without losing momentum, and his fingertip familiarity with Irish history’. English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 Review Extracts: Joyce, Ireland, Britain `Deeply researched and meticulously written, these essays offer important insights into the historical context of Joyce’s work and adjust, significantly, our sense of Joyce’s relation to relation to Irish politics as well as to England and English culture’. Timothy Martin, Rutgers University `Joyce, Ireland, Britain is likely to be considered one of the most important essay collections ever produced on Joyce, and will be talked about and used for decades to come’. Sebastian Knowles, Ohio State University `The essay in this volume employ the “London method”.... The London school appears to have learned the lessons of Michel Foucault, for while it “aims at exactitude”, it is also `attentive to the possibility of historical discontinuities, ruptures, breaks. What we find [in Joyce, Ireland, Britain] is contextual narrative and reflection on historical events and figures, much of it insightful and original, supported by a wide range of published material...these essays, and the editors’ theoretical reflections, advance historical Joyce criticism in the direction

28 of greater specificity and nuance. They also raise anew the question of the status of historical analysis in literary studies’. Gregory Castle, James Joyce Quarterly `The introduction demonstrates the importance of persistent critique and an equal belief in the perfectibility of scholarship’s enterprise. The essays that follow are of uniformly high quality, written by scholars of great talent and conviction; their insights will be of real interest to researchers and teachers of Joyce’s work’. Marian Eide, James Joyce Literary Supplement `This informative, even distinguished collection of essays promises to immerse its reader into a newly specific, historically accurate context for reading Joyce's work in relation to British and Irish politics and culture. Perhaps its most arresting claim is that unlike the Englishman Haines in Joyce's Ulysses, the English critics represented here refuse to treat history as a scapegoat in an effort to evade personal or national responsibility for historical wrongs against Ireland. Instead, the editors argue that the responsibility of "a new kind of English Joyce scholar" might be "to hold back from too ready a surrender to historical amnesia" and "to gesture toward the immense debtorship" [of a thing done; an echo of Stephen's telegram to Mulligan in Ulysses] "by doing a great deal of extremely hard and painstaking historical work"’. These two goals are something that every contributor succeeds in’. Vicki Mahaffey, Modernism/Modernity) `Gibson and Platt's Joyce, Ireland, Britain and Shelton's Joyce and the Narrative Structure of Incest... acknowledge a crisis of method; both are impressively grounded in textual commentary and explication, whilst being overtly aware of the theoretical and methodological contracts into which they enter ― aware, that is, of the fact that their respective arguments emerge in response to a clear demand for methodological innovation. It is this awareness that lends the readings they advance a special quality and urgency’. Journal of Modern Literature Review Extracts: Beckett and Badiou `Beckett and Badiou is all the better for its inherent difficulties, and even uncertainties, for its ultimate twisting and turning in on itself. What it lacks at times in elegance ― and the book feels in parts, unlike most of Gibson’s other criticism, almost self-denying in its stylistic dryness ― it makes up for with a nuance and rigour that make it a richly satisfying and productive account on Beckett’s oeuvre’. David Cunningham, Radical Philosophy `Gibson probably takes us further than any other recent reader of Beckett…is direction of grasping the full social and critical form of his art’. David Cunningham, Radical Philosophy `Gibson’s book, with its intricate layers of theoretical complexity and its vast ambition, is certainly a formidable feat of scholarship…. The book is a testimony to its author’s intense participation in a set of intellectual debates and exchanges which are ― or at least should be ― of the greatest significance in literary studies’. English `Gibson is masterful in his grasp of Badiou’s system (even its more knotty mathematical formulae, and he effortlessly weaves his argument from Badiou’s theorems to Beckett’s literary texts....By suggesting that Beckett’s work describes a waiting for something (the event) as well as an aimless, anxious, endlessly postponed process (of intermittency), Gibson provides an absorbing account of the hesitant expectancy of Beckett’s writing’. Benjamin Keatinge, Irish University Review 'The book is impeccably researched.....Badiou's reading of the author has hitherto been less influential in the Anglo-Saxon (empirical) context than it has in le monde francophone. Gibson's book constitutes the first sustained study of the subject. In its depth of analysis, it will be difficult to surpass.' Ulrika Maude, Modernism/Modernity 'Scrupulous, immensely well-read'. Leslie Hill, French Studies `Gibson’s book is much more than a programmatic “Beckett and...” exercise that shoehorns Beckett into some pre-designed philosophical system. It is a far more sophisticated and dynamic critique than that. It is a

29 tremendously alert and penetrating exercise in intellectual synergy, highlighting unexpected connections between the philosopher and artist that helps us consider both in a new light’. Textual Practice `That Gibson can so comfortably move between historicist and abstract approaches reveals him as one of the most ambidextrous modernist specialists in an area that is still quite often split between scholars and theorists’.

Textual Practice Review Extracts: Samuel Beckett: A Critical Life 'In his recent short biography of the writer, Samuel Beckett, Andrew Gibson makes the essential attempt to restore to the dramatist and his characters the difficult and thankless nobility of the compassionate view . . . An excellent and necessary volume’. George Hunka, Artistic Director, Theatre Minima, New York '[The book] undoubtedly sheds light on the historical circumstances that informed [Beckett's] texts, and there are many interesting details that allow us to see his literary achievement more clearly’. Times Literary Supplement 'This new biography . . . considers the writer's work in relation to the historical circumstances of his life and provides an original insight into one of Ireland's greatest writers.' Irish Post On Intermittency: The Concept of Historical Reason in Recent French Philosophy `This book is to my knowledge the most subtle and original study of a crucial orientation in French philosophy that took place after the heyday of the best-known, now dead, great masters (Althusser, Derrida, Foucault, Lacan etc.), but which refused to ally itself with the nouvelle philosophie (Lévy, Finkielkraut and their followers).

Gibson clarifies what the principal representatives of this orientation have in common, what separates them, and why thought must set out from them today, even if it preserves ― as Gibson does ― a real critical distance from them. The book is without equal or rival anywhere, including France’. Alain Badiou `Gibson is not merely a skilful interpreter of texts, not merely a passeur, who enables us to discover new vistas in contemporary French philosophy, but also a philosopher in his own right...the book you are going to read is not merely a book, it is a landmark’. Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Preface Review Extracts: The Strong Spirit: History, Politics and Aesthetics in the Writings of James Joyce 18981915 `A compelling intellectual portrait of Joyce as he attempts to become “the artist of an emergent culture”’. Sarah Davison, Times Literary Supplement `A much-needed intervention into thinking about Joyce’s politics, and no Joycean, or scholar of irish Studies generally, should neglect it.... Essential’. J.M. Utell, Choice