John Rickard

Chair of the English Department

 

231 Vaughan Literature
(570) 577-1424
rickard@bucknell.edu
Personal Website

 


Teaching Interests
Irish literature; modernism; modern and contemporary British literature; science and literature

Current Projects and Research Interests
“The Irish Patient: Body, Nation, and Language in the Poetry of Eavan Boland and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill” (essay submitted for publication); “Outdancing Thought: Stasis and Modernism in W. B. Yeats’s The Wild Swans at Coole” (essay in progress); Theosophy, the occult, and the birth of modernism (book project); Editor, Bucknell Contemporary Irish Writers Series (Bucknell University Press)

Selected Publications

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

"Rebuilding Babel: Science, Fiction, and a New Divinity," in Art and the Religious Impulse. Ed. Eric Michael Mazur, 2002.

"'A quaking sod': Hybridity, Identity, and Wandering Irishness" in James Joyce and the Fabrication of an Irish Identity. Special issue of European Joyce Studies. Ed. Michael Patrick Gillespie. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2001. 83-110.

Joyce’s Book of Memory: The Mnemotechnic of “Ulysses.” Duke University Press, 1999.


Recent Awards

Invited speaker, Yeats Summer School, Sligo, Ireland, 2005

 

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