Ulysses Centenary a 75th JJS Anniversary I: Clare Hutton & Jonathan Goldman

Clare Hutton, “Women and the Making of Ulysses: Highlights from the Ransom Center Exhibition”

A Dublin native, and the third of six children, Dr. Clare Hutton is now Reader in English and Digital Humanities at Loughborough University in the UK. She is curator of Women and the Making of Ulysses, a centenary exhibition on display at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas from January 29 through July 17 2022. Her monograph, Serial Encounters: Ulysses and the Little Review, appeared with Oxford in 2019, and has been described as “nuanced and engaging”, “indispensable” and “one of the major works of Joyce scholarship so far this century”. Clare Hutton, “Women and the Making of Ulysses: Highlights from the Ransom Center Exhibition” / Jonathan Goldman, JJS President, “Brief Notes from the History of the James Joyce Society” (In association with the Harry Ransom Center, Austin, Texas) Remote. See website for link is due out in paperback in Spring 2022.

Jonathan Goldman, “Brief Notes from the History of the James Joyce Society”

Jonathan Goldman (Professor Dept. of Humanities, New York Institute of Technology) is author of Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity, editor of Joyce and the Law, and co-editor of Modernist Star Maps. He is president of the James Joyce Society.

The James Joyce Society was officially formed in February, 1947 at the Gotham Book Mart, 41 West 47th Street in midtown Manhattan. ("New York" has never been part of its name, as it was the first organization devoted to Joyce.) The first to pay membership dues was T.S. Eliot. The JJS story parallels much of the history of Joyce reception and dissemination in that the group owes its existence to a woman, in this case Frances Steloff, owner and proprietor of the Gotham–"the Sylvia Beach of New York," as the late Zach Bowen called her.