Enda Duffy

Enda Duffy is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He earned his B.Ed. from St. Patrick’s College, The Natl. University of Ireland and his PhD from Harvard, and taught at Reed College and Wesleyan University before coming to UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of The Subaltern Ulysses (Minnesota, 1996) and The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism (Duke, 2009), which won the Modernist Studies Association Prize as the best book in modernist studies in 2010. With Maurizia Boscagli, he is co-editor of Joyce, Benjamin and Magical Urbanism (European Joyce Studies, Vol. 25, 2011), and editor of editions of the short stories of Katherine Mansfield and Joyce’s Ulysses. He has published numerous essays on modernist culture, Irish writing and critical theory in such journals as Modernism/Modernity, Modernist Cultures , The James Joyce Quarterly and Critical Quarterly, and in edited collections such as Semi-Colonial Joyce, Marketing Modernisms, The Cambridge Companion to Ulysses, The Contemporaneity of Modernism: Literature, Media, Culture and many others. He has just completed Wild Irish: The Emigrants’ History of Irish Literature and is writing a book on modernist human and geopolitical energy.