Modernism, Vision, Disability - A Dialogue
Cleo Hanaway-Oakley and Robert Volpicelli will present work-in-progress papers on their current research which sits at the intersections between literary studies, medical humanities, and disability studies:
Cleo Hanaway-Oakley, 'James Joyce's Dynamic Vision'
Cleo Hanaway-Oakley and Robert Volpicelli will present work-in-progress papers on their current research which sits at the intersections between literary studies, medical humanities, and disability studies:
Cleo Hanaway-Oakley, 'James Joyce's Dynamic Vision'
Cleo Hanaway-Oakley is Senior Lecturer in Liberal Arts and English at the University of Bristol. She is author of James Joyce and the Phenomenology of Film (OUP, 2017), and numerous articles and book chapters on Joyce, Beckett, phenomenology, visual arts, visual impairment, and disability. She sits on the CHHS management committee and is a Trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation. Her latest publication is an article on Ulysses and disabled womanhood, for a special 'Women's Issue' of the James Joyce Quarterly. She is currently co-editing, with Keith Williams, The Edinburgh Companion to James Joyce and the Arts (EUP, 2026), and is writing a new monograph on Joyce and dynamic vision.
Robert Volpicelli, 'Imagism, Ableism: Vision and Disability in Modernist American Poetry'
Robert Volpicelli is Professor of English and Director of Humanities Initiatives at Randolph-Macon College, in Ashland, Virginia. He is the author of Transatlantic Modernism and the US Lecture Tour (Oxford UP, 2021), which won the Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize. His articles on modernist literature and culture have appeared in such journals as PMLA, Modernism/modernity, NOVEL, and Twentieth-Century Literature, among others. He is an Associate Editor of College Literature, and he has recently edited a special issue of the journal Cusp on the topic of disability. He is currently working on a new book about bad eyesight in modern art and literature.
Robert Volpicelli, 'Imagism, Ableism: Vision and Disability in Modernist American Poetry'
Robert Volpicelli is Professor of English and Director of Humanities Initiatives at Randolph-Macon College, in Ashland, Virginia. He is the author of Transatlantic Modernism and the US Lecture Tour (Oxford UP, 2021), which won the Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize. His articles on modernist literature and culture have appeared in such journals as PMLA, Modernism/modernity, NOVEL, and Twentieth-Century Literature, among others. He is an Associate Editor of College Literature, and he has recently edited a special issue of the journal Cusp on the topic of disability. He is currently working on a new book about bad eyesight in modern art and literature.