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Professor Samuel Slote

Professor (English)
ARTS BUILDING

 slotes@tcd.ie

 3531896 1319


Biography

My research focuses on twentieth-century Modernism and Late Modernism, with an emphasis on the works of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. Methodologically, my work draws on a variety of theoretical approaches, such as deconstruction, genetic criticism, translation theory, mimetic theory, gender studies, and textual studies. My most recent publications are: Annotations to James Joyce"s `Ulysses" (Oxford UP, 2022), co-written with Marc Mamigonian and John Turner; and `Ulysses" Forty Years: A Critical Retrospective of Hans Walter Gabler"s Critical and Synoptic Edition of `Ulysses", co-edited with Georgina Nugent (Clemson University Press, 2024). I have co-edited six volumes on Joyce: Probes: Genetic Studies in Joyce (1995) Genitricksling Joyce (1999), How Joyce Wrote 'Finnegans Wake' (2007), Renascent Joyce (2013), Derrida and Joyce: On Totality and Equivocation (2013), and James Joyce and the Arts (2020). I have also written a book on Joyce and Nietzsche, entitled Joyce's Nietzschean Ethics (2013). Currently I am working on a project on Joyce and mimesis. I have organised four large-scale international Joyce symposia: Tours (2008), Dublin (2012), Antwerp (2018), and Dublin (2022). I have served two terms on the Board of Trustees for the International James Joyce Foundation. I am on the editorial board for The James Joyce Quarterly, Joyce Studies Annual, European Joyce Studies, The Dublin James Joyce Journal, and Genetic Joyce Studies. In 2022, I was appointed the Series Editor for the James Joyce Series published by the University of Florida Press. At Trinity, I am the founding Director for the Samuel Beckett Summer School, for which I served from 2011"2018. In addition to my work on Joyce and Beckett, I have published on Vladimir Nabokov, Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust, Jorge Luis Borges, Stéphane Mallarmé, Dante, and Elvis. I am interested in hearing from prospective graduate students who are considering working on Joyce or Beckett.

Research Tags

  James Joyce   Samuel Beckett

Representations

Details Date
Trustee, International James Joyce Foundation 2008-14; 2016-22
Member of the Editorial Board, European Joyce Studies 2017-
Member of the Editorial Board, James Joyce Quarterly 2015-
Member of the Editorial Board, Joyce Studies Annual 2013-
Member of the Editorial Board, Dublin James Joyce Journal 2008-
Member of the Editorial Board, English Text Construction 2007-
Member of the Editorial Board, Litteraria Pragensia 2007-
Member of the Editorial Board, Genetic Joyce Studies 1999-
Referee, Oxford University Press 2018
Referee, The Johns Hopkins University Press 2017
Referee, University of Toronto Press 2015
Referee, University Press of Florida 2017, 2018, 2020
External Examiner, Hertford College, University of Oxford 2010
Referee, Bloomsbury Academic Press 2020
Referee, Palgrave-Macmillan 2020
Referee, University of Michigan Press 2019
Referee, Liverpool University Press 2020

Languages

Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
French Fluent Fluent Fluent
Italian Medium Medium Medium

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
Équipe Joyce, Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes 1998 present
International James Joyce Foundation 1992
International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures 2007
European Society for Textual Scholarship 2007
Beckett International Foundation
Sam Slote, Georgina Nugent, Ulysses Forty Years: A Critical Retrospective of Hans Walter Gabler"s Critical and Synoptic Edition of Ulysses, Clemson, Clemson University Press, 2024, 1 - 249pp, Book, PUBLISHED
"Life" is a wake, livit or krikit": Life " from a Nonhuman Perspective in, editor(s)Richard Barlow and Paul Fagan , 'Finnegans Wake" " Human and Nonhuman Histories,, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2024, pp147 - 161, [Sam Slote], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
A Portrait of the Editor as Arranger in, editor(s)Sam Slote, Georgina Nugent , Ulysses Forty Years: A Critical Retrospective of Hans Walter Gabler"s Critical and Synoptic Edition of Ulysses, Clemson, Clemson University Press, 2024, pp103 - 123, [Sam Slote], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Sam Slote, As Camp as a Row of Pink Tents: Stephen's Portrait of Mr W. S., Open Library of Humanities, 10, (1), 2024, p17 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
Sam Slote, Stephen's Liquidity, James Joyce Online Notes, (19), 2024, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Sam Slote, In Memoriam: David Hayman (1927"2024), James Joyce Quarterly, 61, (3"4), 2024, p219 - 225, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Sam Slote, Marc Mamigonian, John Turner, Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses, 1, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, Book, PUBLISHED
Proteus in, editor(s)Catherine Flynn , The Cambridge Centenary 'Ulysses', Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp81 - 89, [Sam Slote], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
The Multiplications of Translation in, editor(s)Catherine Flynn , The New Joyce Studies, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp79 - 94, [Sam Slote], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Sam Slote, `Eumaeus": Literally the Antepenultimate Episode, Joyce Studies Annual, 2022, p319 - 337, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
  

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Aoife King (ed), Rita Duffy, Caitríona Lally, Jacob J. Erickson, Donna Lyons et al., What the Pandemic Means: Perspectives from the Trinity Long Room Hub Covid-19 Blog Collection, 2021, - 1-56, Notes: [Artwork: Rita Duffy], Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Finnegans Wake An Introduction of Sorts in, Finnegans Wake, London, Alma, 2020, ppv - xx, [Sam Slote], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Sam Slote, Ulysses Unpicked from Bud to Bloom, Review of Joyce's Creative Process and the Construction of Characters in 'Ulysses' , by Luca Crispi , Irish Times, 2016, p10 , Review, PUBLISHED
James Joyce, Ulysses, London, Alma Classics, 2012, Book, PUBLISHED
A Wake in Chapelizod in, editor(s)Motoko Fujita , In the Shadow of James Joyce, Dublin, Lilliput, 2011, pp48 - 50, [Sam Slote], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Sam Slote, A Centennial Bloomsday at Buffalo, Buffalo, The Poetry Collection, 2004, Book, PUBLISHED

  

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

My primary areas of research are in the works of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett and, by extension, in European Modernist studies more generally. My contributions to this field focus on Joyce and Beckett's manipulation of languages and literary styles and my work is informed by a number of theoretical and critical perspectives, such as genetic criticism (the study of literary manuscripts), textual studies, deconstruction, and translation studies I am currently working on three different large-scale projects. The first is an edition of all-new annotations to Joyce's Ulysses, which updates the work I did for the Alma Classics edition of Ulysses (published in 2012 and revised in 2015 and 2017). The new edition is 620,000 words, which is more than double the length of the Alma edition. It is currently in production at Oxford University Press; the final manuscript was submitted in December 2019 and will be published both in print and on the Oxford Scholarly Editions Online platform in the early autumn of 2021 (the Covid-19 crisis has delayed publication by about six months). My next project is a monograph on the nature of the political in Joyce and Beckett's works, primarily Finnegans Wake and How It Is. The aim of this project is to use Joyce and Beckett to think through a conceptualisation of the political that is not simply partisan or ideological, but rather to be understood in terms of community and communication. This book begins with a genealogy of philosophical considerations on the nature of the political from Aristotle, through Hobbes and Hegel, and to Jean-Luc Nancy, John Rawls, and Richard Rorty. My final project is editing the first ever collection of Joyce's own translations, which span his career as a writer. Because Joyce's translations have never been collected before into one volume, they represent the only aspect of his output that has been almost entirely ignored by critics.