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Assistant Professor of English at Broward College. James Joyce, David Foster Wallace, theory, film, punk, etc.

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DFW26 - The International David Foster Wallace Society International David Foster Wallace Conference 2026 June 4–6, 2026 UPDATE: 3/10/26 Registration is now open! You can register for the conference here.  UPDATE: 3/3/26 Featured Speaker: John Jeremiah Su...

Registration is now open for DFW26 in Austin. Speakers include John Jeremiah Sullivan, Bret Anthony Johnston, Deb Olin Unferth and others with 3 names. And many great academic presentations. dfwsociety.org/dfw26/ @DFWSociety

11.03.2026 17:38 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Canceled Futures “and all that cal” in Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange ABSTRACT. This article situates Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange (1962) in the context of the decline of British hegemony following the Second World War and the rise of what would eventually be kn...

My article on A Clockwork Orange is out now in Utopian Studies.
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/utopian...

01.12.2025 01:45 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Do you like Metal Gear Solid or something?

26.10.2025 15:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Project MUSE - James Joyce Quarterly-Volume 62, Number 1, Fall 2024

The James Joyce Quarterly issue featuring my recent article is up now on Project MUSE.
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55691

14.10.2025 15:59 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
cfp | call for papers

The annual David Foster Wallace conference will be held in Austin in June 2026! Here's the call for papers: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/...

26.09.2025 11:44 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Page 4 is ambitious tbh.

16.09.2025 23:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Great post as always. Do you know Daniel Moshenberg's essay on Ulysses and tenants' rights? You might find it interesting. "What Shouts in the Street: 1904, 1922, 1990" in JJQ 28.4 (October 1990): 809-818.

27.08.2025 14:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Same but Mad Magazine.

26.08.2025 19:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Books on Samuel Beckett.

Books on Samuel Beckett.

Writing about Beckett. #ModWrite

11.08.2025 16:07 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Something Wild (dir. Jonathan Demme, 1986)

08.08.2025 14:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Been listening to:
"Venus as a Boy" -Björk
"She Does It Right" -Dr. Feelgood
"The Best Part of Being with You" -The Groove Farm
"Bluebeard" -Cocteau Twins

06.08.2025 22:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mural of several musicians outside of Sweat Records in Miami.

Mural of several musicians outside of Sweat Records in Miami.

Bowie street art in Miami.

18.07.2025 18:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
James Joyce Quarterly volume 62, number 1 (Fall 2024).

James Joyce Quarterly volume 62, number 1 (Fall 2024).

My article in James Joyce Quarterly.

My article in James Joyce Quarterly.

Another shameless plug for Bloomsday—before heading to the Joyce event in Miami, I checked my mail and the new James Joyce Quarterly (with my new article) was waiting for me!

16.06.2025 19:14 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Me wearing a vest and a straw Davy Byrne’s hat.

Me wearing a vest and a straw Davy Byrne’s hat.

Bloomsday outfit. Off to the Joyce event in Miami!

16.06.2025 18:13 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
James Joyce Literary Supplement | University of Central Florida

This #ModWrite is also Bloomsday, so I'll drop the link to the new issue of the James Joyce Literary Supplement (which includes a book review that I wrote). stars.library.ucf.edu/jjls/

16.06.2025 13:10 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Today’s #ModWrite

12.05.2025 18:54 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

OMG!

02.05.2025 13:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This Is Water Symposium, Summer 2025 - The International David Foster Wallace Society The 20th Anniversary of David Foster Wallace’s “This is Water” Kenyon Commencement Speech is coming up this May! If you can’t make our roundtable at the ALA conference in Boston this May, we’d love to...

dfwsociety.org/conference/d...

24.04.2025 14:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

21.04.2025 16:40 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Read my new article in Journal of Modern Literature here!

12.04.2025 14:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This #modwrite I'm preparing for my upcoming conference presentation on Finnegans Wake.

24.03.2025 13:09 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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The physical copy of my article has arrived!

15.03.2025 20:06 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Been listening to:
"My My Metrocard" -Le Tigre
"No Bunny" -Pailhead
"It's Too Late" -Bob Mould
"Hey Mersh!" -Moe Tucker

11.03.2025 02:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This #modwrite I'm prepping for my presentation at this weekend's Modernism Remodeled online conference, hosted by the LABRC (London Arts-Based Research Centre). Pictured here are TS Eliot and Franco "Bifo" Berardi.

03.03.2025 20:02 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Was watching As Told by Ginger again and saw what appears to be a poster of James Joyce in Ms. Zorski’s classroom???

22.02.2025 14:55 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Got my (e-book) copy! Very excited.

12.02.2025 02:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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a man in a plaid shirt is saying what ALT: a man in a plaid shirt is saying what
11.02.2025 23:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Haha, no worries! I gotta check out your essay on counterfactual geographies.

04.02.2025 02:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Guess what I’m writing. #modwrite

04.02.2025 02:07 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Happy birthday!

02.02.2025 16:01 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0