“James Joyce’s Ulysses made me want to be a professor of literary fiction,” said Rubenstein. and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.'” Whether researching censorship or garments, I have continuously circled back to Ulysses, proving Joyce right in his claim that he’d ‘put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries. “Readers, editors, government officials and journalists hotly debated whether it was a sign of innovation or of the decline of Western civilization, debates that continue to intrigue me a century later. “Even before it was published in 1922, James Joyce’s Ulysses had become an international litmus test for what literature could and should be,” said Marshik. Photo by John GriffinĪ roundtable discussion, “James Joyce’s Ulysses : The First 100 Years,” will be held on Wednesday, March 9, at 1 pm featuring Department of English faculty Elyse Graham, associate professor Celia Marshik, professor and Michael Rubenstein, associate professor, who will discuss the value of the novel to their scholarship and teaching.
A special event presented by the College of Arts and Sciences Department of English will celebrate this milestone, complete with a showcase of an early edition of the novel owned by the department.
February 2, 2022, marked the 100th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses, widely considered the most important novel of the 20th century.
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