John Rickard--Publications and Presentations

I have been teaching in the English Department at Bucknell University since 1990. My primary research and teaching interests are modern Irish and English literature--especially James Joyce and W. B. Yeats--and science and literature. I am also interested in issues of ethnicity, nationalism, "postcolonialism," and the construction of identity as they relate to modern Irish (and, by extension, North American) culture.

ACADEMIC DEGREES

Ph.D., English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1989.

M.A., English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1982.

B.A., English, Bucknell University, 1975.

PUBLICATIONS

"Eating Like a White Man: Nibbling at the Edges of Heart of Darkness."L'epoque Conradienne 33 (2007): 49-57.

"Rebuilding Babel: Science, Fiction, and a New Divinity." Art and the Religious Impulse. Ed. Eric Michael Mazur. Bucknell Review 46, no. 1 (2002): 91-103.

"'A quaking sod': Hybridity, Identity, and Wandering Irishness." James Joyce and the Fabrication of an Irish Identity. Special issue of European Joyce Studies. Ed. Michael Patrick Gillespie. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2001. 83-110.

Joyce's Book of Memory: The Mnemotechnic of "Ulysses." Duke University Press, 1999. Sample reviews.

"Stephen Dedalus Among School Children: The Schoolroom and the Riddle of Authority in Ulysses." Studies in the Literary Imagination 30, no. 2 (Fall 1997): 17-36.

"Studying a New Science: Yeats, Irishness, and the East" in Representing Ireland: Gender, Class, Nationality. Ed. Susan Shaw Sailer. University Press of Florida, 1997. 94-112.

"Chiromancy in Ulysses." James Joyce Quarterly 33, no. 3 (Spring 1996): 446-447.

"The Irish Undergrounds of Heaney and Joyce," in Joyce in the Hibernian Metropolis: Essays. Ed. Morris Beja and David Norris. Ohio State University Press, 1996. 250-259.

"Irish Studies." 2000-word entry for Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory. Ed. Michael Payne and Meenakshi Ponnuswami. Blackwell, 1996.

“Introduction.” Irishness and (Post)Modernism. Ed. John S. Rickard. Bucknell University Press, 1994. Bucknell Review 38, no. 1 (1994): 13-22.

Co-edited Psychoanalysis and Storytelling, by Peter Brooks. "Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory" series. Blackwell, 1994. Introduction and interview in collaboration with Prof. Harold Schweizer.

"Tradition and Intertextual Memory in James Joyce's Ulysses" in Philosophical Imagination and Cultural Memory: Appropriating Historical Traditions. Ed. Patricia Cook. Duke University Press, 1993. 195-211.

Review of The Joycean Labyrinth: Repetition, Time, and Tradition in "Ulysses," by Udaya Kumar (Clarendon, 1991). James Joyce Quarterly 30, no. 2 (Winter 1992): 324-329.

"Stephen Dedalus and 'Les Chercheuses de Poux.'" James Joyce Quarterly 28, no. 3 (Spring 1991): 685-687.

"Philotheology in Mecklenburg Street." James Joyce Quarterly 23, no. 1 (Fall 1985): 80-82.

"Isis on Sandymount." James Joyce Quarterly 20, no. 3 (Spring 1983): 356-358.

PRESENTATIONS

“The Irish Patient: Body, Nation, and Language in the Poetry of Eavan Boland and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill.” The Patient: A Symposium, Bucknell University, October 2006.

Roundtable on “What We Have Learned in ‘The Space Between,’” Mobility/Stasis/Modernity in the Space Between, 1914-1945: 8th Annual “The Space Between, Literature and Culture, 1914-1945” Conference, Bucknell University, June 2006. Invited participant.

“Outdancing Thought: Stasis and Modernism in W. B. Yeats’s The Wild Swans at Coole.” Mobility/Stasis/Modernity in the Space Between, 1914-1945: 8th Annual “The Space Between, Literature and Culture, 1914-1945” Conference, Bucknell University, June 2006.

“The Wild Swans at Coole.” 46th Annual W. B. Yeats International Summer School, Sligo, Ireland, August 2005.

"Ulysses in Cyberspace: The Joyce of Electronic Scholarship." Presentation for "Promoting Textual Studies for Tenure and Beyond" panel sponsored by the Society for Textual Scholarship, South Atlantic Modern Language Association meeting, Baltimore, November 2002.

"Annotating Dublin in a Hypermedia Ulysses." Electronic Annotated Editions panel, Mediterranean Joyce: XVIIIth Annual International James Joyce Symposium, Trieste, Italy, June 2002.

"Machine Dreams: Evolutionary Fictions and Realities" and "Darwin and Joyce: An Evolutionary Reading of Ulysses." Two invited presentations at the Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden, October 2001.

"'A quaking sod': Hybridity, Identity, and Wandering Irishness." NEH Chair in the Humanities Inaugural Lecture, Bucknell University, November 2000.

"An Evolutionary Reading of Ulysses." James Joyce Annual Summer School, University College Dublin, Ireland, July 2000.

"Annotating the 'Lestrygonians' Episode." Joyce and Annotation workshop, James Joyce Foundation, Zürich, Switzerland, August 1999.

"Rebuilding Babel: Science, Fiction and a New Divinity." Religious Studies Forum, Bucknell, March 1998.

"The Evolution of Memory in Ulysses." Historical/Hysterical Joyce, Toronto, June 1997, and also at James Joyce Foundation panel at Modern Language Association national meeting, Washington, D. C., December 1996.

"From the Center to the Sea: Joycean Peripheries." Colloquium on "Writing on the Margins: Center and Periphery in Irish Literature" at National American Conference for Irish Studies Meeting, Albany, N.Y., April 1997.

"Darwin and Narrative." Globus Seminar Series, Baruch College, City University of New York, March, 1996.

"Evolution and Narrative Teleology in Ulysses." Southern Regional Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies, Chapel Hill, NC, February, 1996.

"Ireland as Ancient Space: Yeats's Genuflections to the East." American Conference for Irish Studies National Meeting, Belfast, Northern Ireland, June, 1995.

"Representing the Holocaust in the Literature Classroom." Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, April 1995.

"Stephen Dedalus Among School Children: The Schoolroom and Authority in Ulysses." South Atlantic Modern Language Association meeting, Baltimore, November 1994.

"Textual Memory and Creative Evolution in Ulysses." Participation in and presentation to 1994 International Workshop, "Joyce's Multiple Memories," James Joyce Foundation, Zürich, Switzerland, July 31-August 6, 1994.

"Fighting the Filthy Modern Tide: Yeats, Irishness, and Science." Southern Regional Meeting, American Conference for Irish Studies, Morgantown, WV, March 1994.

"Darwin, Joyce, and Creative Evolution." Bucknell Biology Dept. Seminar on "Darwinism in the Sciences and the Humanities." Joint presentation with Professor David Fletcher. February 1993.

"The Irish Undergrounds of Heaney and Joyce." XIIIth Annual International James Joyce Symposium, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, June 1992.

"Place and Memory in Joyce." Northeast Modern Language Association, Buffalo, N.Y., April 1992.

"A 'Pleasant and Vicious Region': Joyce, Nostalgia, and Modernism." West Virginia University Colloquium on "The Context of Modernism," September 1991.

"Diarmuid and Grainne Revisited: Forbidden Love in Modern Ireland." South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Tampa, November 1990.

"James Joyce and the Art of Memory." South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, November 1989.

"'Art thou real, my ideal?'; or, the Metamorphoses of Leopold." Modern Language Association, New Orleans, December 1988.

"The Upanishads and Yeats's Poetic Agenda." Philological Association of the Carolinas, Wake Forest Univ., March 1985.

"Stephen's Fox Riddle and Joyce's 'Mnemotechnic' in Ulysses." Provincetown Joyce Symposium, Massachusetts, June 1983.

"Memory and Magic in 'Circe.'" Conference on 20th-Century Literature, Univ. of Louisville, Kentucky, February 1982.

IN PROGRESS

“The Irish Patient: The Female Body, Nation, and Language in the Poetry of Eavan Boland and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill.” Forthcoming in Aperçus: Texts Histories Cultures on The Patient, ed. Harold Schweizer and Michael Foltzer.

“Irish Studies.” Revised entry for new edition of Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory. Ed. Michael Payne. Basil Blackwell, forthcoming.

“Outdancing Thought: Stasis and Modernism in W. B. Yeats’s The Wild Swans at Coole.” Essay based on presentations to Yeats Summer School and “The Space Between” Conference. In progress.

HONORS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Instructor, “The Beast in the Mirror: Fictions of Degeneration.” Summer course, Advanced Studies in England program, Bath, England, June 1 – July 7, 2007.

Invited lecturer and seminar leader (“Yeats and the Art of Memory”), 46th Annual W. B. Yeats International Summer School, Sligo, Ireland, August 2005.

General editor, Bucknell University Press Contemporary Irish Writers Series.

National Endowment for the Humanities Chair in the Humanities, Bucknell, July 1999 – June 2002. Inaugural lecture, November 15, 2000: “'A quaking sod': Hybridity, Identity, and Wandering Irishness.”

Official Respondent, PhD Work in Progress Seminar for Inger Pettersson, "Knowing Trauma, Knowing Cuba: Expressions of Trauma in Dreaming in Cuban, Memory Mambo, and Anything but Love," Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden, October 16, 2001.

Official Respondent, PhD Work in Progress Seminar for Pers Sivefors, "'Enriched with Tongues': Language Renewal and the Shaping of English," Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden, October 17, 2001.

Invited Lecturer, James Joyce Annual Summer School, University College Dublin, Ireland, July 2000.

Judge, American Conference for Irish Studies Annual Book Prizes, Literary Criticism Committee, 1996.

Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, Bucknell University, 1993.

Teaching Fellowship for excellence in teaching, UNC at Chapel Hill, 1986.

James R. Gaskin Award for excellence in teaching, UNC at Chapel Hill, 1985.