Andrew Gibson

Carole and Gordon Segal Visiting Professor of Irish Literature

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Andrew Gibson is Research Professor of Modern Literature and Theory. In 2008 he will serve as Carole and Gordon Segal Professor of Irish Literature at Northwestern University in the USA where, among others, Richard Ellmann taught from 1951 to 1968, establishing a major tradition in the study of Irish literature.

Gibson is a Trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation, permanent Advisory Editor to the James Joyce Quarterly, Founder/Organizer of the London University Seminar for Research into Joyce's Ulysses, and co-Founder/co-Organizer of the London University Finnegans Wake Research Seminar. From 2003 to 2005, he was a Leverhulme Research Fellow. He is a member of and contributor to the Philosophie, Art et Littérature seminar at the Collège Internationale de Philosophie in Paris, to which he gave a paper in May, 2002 entitled '"Il faut construire une nouvelle scène": Stevens et "la poésie moderne"'. He is a member of the International Association of University Professors in English and of the editorial board of Textuel, Symbolism and Critical Zone. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the British Network for Modern Textual Studies.

His most recent books are:

Joyce's Revenge: History, Politics and Aesthetics in 'Ulysses' (Oxford University Press, 2002; paperback, 2005)
James Joyce: A Critical Life (Reaktion, 2006)
Beckett and Badiou: The Pathos of Intermittency (Oxford University Press, 2006)