John Rickard

Prof of English

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Teaching Interests

  • Irish literature
  • James Joyce
  • Modernism
  • Modern and contemporary British literature
  • Science and literature

Selected Publications

"A Portrait of the Animal as a Young Artist: Animality, Instinct, and Cognition in Joyce's Early Prose." Special Issue: Joyce, Animals and the Nonhuman. Humanities 6, no. 3 (2017).

"The Irish Patient: The Female Body, Nation, and Language in the Poetry of Eavan Boland and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill," in The Patient (Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures). Ed. Harold Schweizer and Kimberly Myers. Bucknell University Press, 2010. 97-110.

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

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

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