INTERVIEWS & MEDIA

“Ulysses was designed to help readers learn to imaginatively inhabit opposed positions. It’s about the effort and danger of embracing mutually exclusive possibilities: Irish and English, male and female, Jewish and gentile. It’s about learning to reseat the mind in the body, and using the (shared) fragility of embodiment to bridge differences of background, biology, language…”

Interviewed by Michael Washburn, Book and Film Globe, March 2, 2022

PODCASTS

 
 
 

Vicki Mahaffey sticks around for a second episode to talk about “the splendid parable” (Joyce) of the Homeric parallel. Vicki reassures all of us readers of Joyce that, “nothing is totally ‘correct’ about Ulysses, there are simply theories and all are incomplete.”

Mahaffey on the “Scylla and Charybdis” episode of Ulysses, Tipsy-Turvy Ulysses (Spotify)

 

VIDEO

The Rosenbach Museum and Library, June 2021, I Said Yes.
I Said Yes: A Celebration of Bloomsday at The Rosenbach captures the celebration of Bloomsday and the significance of Joyce’s groundbreaking work. Through interviews, commentary, music, readings, and much more, I Said Yes: A Celebration of Bloomsday at The Rosenbach reflects on the literary legacy of Ulysses and The Rosenbach’s place in its history.


YouTube with Adam Savage, Finnegans Wake for Beginners

Vicki Mahaffey received her Ph.D. from Princeton, with a specialty in Modernism and modern Irish literature. Her "Reauthorizing Joyce" was published in hardcover by Cambridge University Press and in paperback by Florida University Press. "States of Desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish Experiment" was published by Oxford University Press in 1998. She has received Ira Abrams Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Lindback Award for teaching; she is a Guggenheim Fellow and a member of the Board of Trustees of the International James Joyce Foundation. Since retiring from Penn, Prof. Mahaffey has held the chair of Modern Literature at the University of York, England, and the Clayton and Thelma Kirkpatrick Chair of English and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois.

 
 

EARLIER PODCASTS

  • BBC 4, June 16, 2012 (Introduction to “Nausicaa” episode of Ulysses): 20:00

  • RTE Ireland Radio, Arts Tonight, panel on Dubliners (June 11, 2012)

  • WEFT Radio, Champaign, June 4, 2012

  • Margaret Throsby Show, Australian Public radio, June 2004

  • Interviewed on the app Dubliners: A Guide by Students for Students

 

 

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