Selected Publications

Books, refereed

The Field, Cork University Press, “Ireland into Film” series (2002).

Critical Regionalism and Cultural Studies:  From Ireland to the American Midwest, University Press of Florida, 216 pages, 23 plates (1996). 

editor, For the Land They Loved:  Irish Political Melodramas, 1890-1925, Syracuse Univ. Press, 366 pages, 21 plates (1991).

This edition presents four of the most popular and important historical melodramas, previously unpublished, in the Irish theatrical tradition.  It also includes a monograph-length, contextualizing introduction.

Joyce's Anatomy of Culture, Univ. of Illinois Press, 314 pages, 16 plates, extensive bibliography of sources for the study of mass culture in Ireland (1986).

Chapter 6 ("The Sermon as 'Massproduct'") partly reprinted in B. Bernstein collection for Simon and Schuster.  Also reprinted in James Joyce:  A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Mary T. Reynolds, New Century Views (Englewood Cliffs:  Prentice Hall, 1993):  81-95.

Chapter 7 ("'Politicoecomedy' in Finnegans Wake III,ii") partly reprinted in Joyce and His Contemporaries, ed. Diana A. Ben-Merre and Maureen Murphy (New York:  Greenwood Press, 1990), pp. 59-67.

Selected Articles, refereed

“Schizophrenesis in Finnegans Wake,” European Joyce Studies, forthcoming.
 
"Method Work:  Toward a Phenomenology of Crosscultural Studies," for Bodies of Resistance:  Ontology, Agency, Cultures, ed. Laura Doyle, Northwestern Univ. Press, forthcoming.

“Addressing the Eye in Ireland:  On a Paving Stone Mounted,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 20 (2000):  367-74.

"'Old Wives' Tales as Portals of Discovery in 'Proteus'," in Ulysses:  En-gendered Perspectives, ed. Marilyn Reizbaum and Kimberly Devlin (Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1999):  30-41.

"The Silence of the Hares:  The Peripherality of Joyce and Ireland," in Joycean Cultures / Culturing Joyces, ed. Vince Cheng, Kimberly Devlin, and Margot Norris (Univ. of Delaware Press, 1998):  216-40.

"Blue Notes:  From Joyce to Jarman," Re:  Joyce:  Text, Culture, Politics, ed. John Brannigan, Geoff Ward, and Julian Wolfreys (London:  Macmillan, 1998):  211-223.
     Reprinted Summer 1999 in Hypermedia Joyce Studies (www.2street.com/hjstemp/herr.html).

"A State o' Chassis:  Mobile Capital, Ireland, and the Question of Postmodernity," Bucknell Review 38 (1994):  190-224.

"Terrorist Chic:  Style and Domination in Contemporary Ireland," in On Fashion, ed. Shari Benstock and Suzanne Ferriss (New Brunswick:  Rutgers Univ. Press, 1994):  235-66.  Translated into Portuguese and reprinted by Rocco (Brazil).

"Deconstructing Dedalus," in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:  A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism, ed. R. B. Kershner (New York:  St. Martin's Press, 1993):  338-60.

"Ireland from the Outside," James Joyce Quarterly  28 (summer 1991):  777-89.  Reprinted with modifications in Joyce and the Subject of History, ed. Mark Wollaeger, Victor Luftig, Robert Spoo (Univ. of Michigan Press, 1996):  195-210.

"The Strange Reward of All That Discipline:  Yeats and Foucault," in Yeats and Postmodernism:  New Critical Essays, ed. Leonard Orr (Syracuse Univ. Press, 1991), 146-66.

"The Erotics of Irishness," Critical Inquiry  17 (Autumn 1990):  1-34. 
Reprinted in Identities, edited Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Univ. of Chicago, 1995.  

"'Penelope' as Period Piece," lead article, Novel 22 (1989):  130-42.  Reprinted with modifications in Molly Blooms:  A Polylogue on 'Penelope' and Cultural Studies (University of Wisconsin Press, ed. Richard Pearce, 1994):  63-79.

"Fathers, Daughters, Anxiety, and Fiction," in Discontented Discourses:  Feminism / Textual Intervention / Psychoanalysis, ed. M. S. Barr and Richard Feldstein (Urbana:  Univ. of Illinois Press, 1989): 173-207.

"Convention and Spirit in Olaf Stapledon's Fiction," in The Legacy of Olaf Stapledon, ed. Patrick McCarthy, Charles Elkins, and Martin Greenberg (New York:  Greenwood Press, 1989):  23-37.

"Simulating Utopia:  The Example of Cheech and Chong," Border/Lines, Spring 1988:  48-49 (triple column, large format).

"Subworlds, Props, and Settings in Joyce's Exiles," Theatre Journal 39 (1987): 185-203.

"Art and Life, Nature and Culture, Ulysses," in James Joyce's Ulysses:  The Larger Perspective, ed. Weldon Thornton and Robert Newman (Newark:  University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto:  Associated University Press, 1987):  19-38.  Portuguese trans. in riverrun:  Ensaios Sobre James Joyce, ed. Arthur Nestrovski (Rio de Janeiro:  Imago, 1992):  181-206.  Trans. by Maria da Glória Bordini.

"'One Good Turn Deserves Another':  Transvestism in 'Circe,'" Journal of Modern Literature, 11 (1984): 263-76.

"Nature and Culture in the 'Sirens' Episode of Joyce's Ulysses," Essays in Literature, 11 (1984): 49-58.  Reprinted in James Joyce's Ulysses, ed. Harold Bloom ([Modern Critical Interpretations] New York, New Haven, Philadelphia:  Chelsea House, 1987):  133-43.  

"Quoting with an Accent:  Bloomsday in Rome," Midwest Quarterly, 25 (1983): 34-46.

"Irish Censorship and 'Aeolus':  The New Old Language of Ideology," in James Joyce:  A New Language: Actas/Proceedings del Simposio Internacional en el Centenario de James Joyce, ed. Francisco G. Tortósa, et al. (Sevilla:  Publicaciones de la Universidad de Sevilla, 1982): 175-81.

"Compound Words and Consubstantiality in Joyce's Ulysses," Language and Style, 15 (1982):  33-47.

"Irish Censorship and 'The Pleasure of the Text':  The 'Aeolus' Episode of Joyce's Ulysses," Irish Renaissance Annual, 3 (1982): 141-79.

"Theosophy, Guilt, and 'That Word Known to All Men' in Joyce's Ulysses," James Joyce Quarterly, 18 (1980-81):  45-54.

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