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Professor Samuel Slote
Professor, English

Biography

My research focuses on twentieth-century Modernism and Late Modernism, with an emphasis on the works of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. Methodologically, my work draws on a variety of theoretical approaches, such as deconstruction, genetic criticism, translation theory, mimetic theory, gender studies, and textual studies. My most recent publications are: Annotations to James Joyce"s `Ulysses" (Oxford UP, 2022), co-written with Marc Mamigonian and John Turner; and `Ulysses" Forty Years: A Critical Retrospective of Hans Walter Gabler"s Critical and Synoptic Edition of `Ulysses", co-edited with Georgina Nugent (Clemson University Press, 2024).

I have co-edited six volumes on Joyce: Probes: Genetic Studies in Joyce (1995) Genitricksling Joyce (1999), How Joyce Wrote 'Finnegans Wake' (2007), Renascent Joyce (2013), Derrida and Joyce: On Totality and Equivocation (2013), and James Joyce and the Arts (2020). I have also written a book on Joyce and Nietzsche, entitled Joyce's Nietzschean Ethics (2013).

Currently I am working on a project on Joyce and mimesis. I have organised four large-scale international Joyce symposia: Tours (2008), Dublin (2012), Antwerp (2018), and Dublin (2022). I have served two terms on the Board of Trustees for the International James Joyce Foundation. I am on the editorial board for The James Joyce Quarterly, Joyce Studies Annual, European Joyce Studies, The Dublin James Joyce Journal, and Genetic Joyce Studies. In 2022, I was appointed the Series Editor for the James Joyce Series published by the University of Florida Press. At Trinity, I am the founding Director for the Samuel Beckett Summer School, for which I served from 2011"2018.

In addition to my work on Joyce and Beckett, I have published on Vladimir Nabokov, Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust, Jorge Luis Borges, Stéphane Mallarmé, Dante, and Elvis.

I am interested in hearing from prospective graduate students who are considering working on Joyce or Beckett.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

Peer-Reviewed Publications

"Life" is a wake, livit or krikit": Life " from a Nonhuman Perspective in, editor(s)Richard Barlow and Paul Fagan , 'Finnegans Wake" " Human and Nonhuman Histories,, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2024, pp147 - 161, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2024

A Portrait of the Editor as Arranger in, editor(s)Sam Slote, Georgina Nugent , Ulysses Forty Years: A Critical Retrospective of Hans Walter Gabler"s Critical and Synoptic Edition of Ulysses, Clemson, Clemson University Press, 2024, pp103 - 123, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2024

Sam Slote, In Memoriam: David Hayman (1927"2024), James Joyce Quarterly, 61, (3"4), 2024, p219 - 225 Journal Article, 2024

Sam Slote, Georgina Nugent, Ulysses Forty Years: A Critical Retrospective of Hans Walter Gabler"s Critical and Synoptic Edition of Ulysses, Clemson, Clemson University Press, 2024, 1 - 249pp Book, 2024

Sam Slote, As Camp as a Row of Pink Tents: Stephen's Portrait of Mr W. S., Open Library of Humanities, 10, (1), 2024, p17 Journal Article, 2024 URL DOI TARA - Full Text

Sam Slote, Stephen's Liquidity, James Joyce Online Notes, (19), 2024 Journal Article, 2024 URL

The Multiplications of Translation in, editor(s)Catherine Flynn , The New Joyce Studies, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp79 - 94, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2022

Sam Slote, `Eumaeus": Literally the Antepenultimate Episode, Joyce Studies Annual, 2022, p319 - 337 Journal Article, 2022 TARA - Full Text

Proteus in, editor(s)Catherine Flynn , The Cambridge Centenary 'Ulysses', Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp81 - 89, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2022

Sam Slote, Marc Mamigonian, John Turner, Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses, 1, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022 Book, 2022

Sam Slote, All the Way from Gibraltar, James Joyce Quarterly, 57, (1-2), 2020, p115 - 126 Journal Article, 2020

Epic Modernism: Ulysses and Finnegans Wake in, editor(s)Liam Harte , The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, pp151 - 166, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2020

Derrida and the Phantom Yeses of Ulysse in, editor(s)Jolanta Wawrzycka and Erika Mihálycsa , Retranslating Joyce for the 21st Century, Leiden, Brill, 2020, pp308 - 318, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2020

Sam Slote, Stuck in the Middle with Ulysses, James Joyce Literary Supplement, 34, (2), 2020, p2 - 2 Journal Article, 2020

Ulysses May Be a Legal Fiction in, editor(s)Philip Kitcher , Joyce's 'Ulysses': Philosophical Perspectives, New York, Oxford University Press, 2020, pp132 - 157, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2020

Emma-Louise Silva, Sam Slote, and Dirk Van Hulle , James Joyce and the Arts, 1, Leiden, Brill, 2020, 219pp Book, 2020

Sam Slote, Finnegans Wake, However Basically Translated, Translation Studies , 12, (1), 2019, p78 - 88 Journal Article, 2019 URL

Namelessness from Artaud to Beckett in, editor(s)James Little, Georgina Nugent-Folan, Emilie Morin, and Mark Nixon , Draff/Résidu, Ledien, Brill, 2019, pp130 - 146, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2019 TARA - Full Text

Derrida's Joyce in, editor(s)Jean-Michel Rabaté , Understanding Derrida, Understanding Modernism, New York, Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, pp111 - 125, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2019

Beckett and Joyce: Two Nattering Nabobs of Negativity in, Olga Beloborodova, Dirk Van Hulle, and Pim Verhulst , Beckett and Modernism, London, Palgrave, 2018, pp69 - 80, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2018

Correcting Joyce: Trial and Error in the Composition of Ulysses in, editor(s)Genevieve Sartor , James Joyce and Genetic Criticism: Genesic Fields, Leiden, Brill, 2018, pp55 - 68, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2018

Sam Slote, The Texts of Finnegans Wake: An Annotated List of the Correction of Misprints, James Joyce Quarterly, 55, (3-4), 2018, p115 - 150 Journal Article, 2018

"Affirmations and negations invalidated as uttered" in Ulysses and How It Is in, editor(s)Jolanta Wawrzycka and Serenella Zanotti , James Joyce's Silences, London, Bloomsbury, 2018, pp105 - 113, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2018

Seeing the Venus Effect and Shakespeare in "Circe" in, editor(s)Frances Ilmberger, Penelope Paparunas, and Martin Heusser , Parallaxing Joyce, Tübingen, Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, 2017, pp154 - 167, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2017

Sam Slote, "And That's Another Reason That I Left Old Skibbereen", or, The Eye of the Eagle, the Thrill of the Fight, Dublin James Joyce Journal , (10), 2017, p103 - 112 Journal Article, 2017

European Joyce Studies, Amsterdam, Brill, 2017 Editorial Board, 2017

The Recidual Remainder in, editor(s)Dennis Duncan , Tom McCarthy: Critical Essays, London, Glyphi, 2016, pp121 - 135, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2016

Sam Slote, Review of James Joyce and Catholicism , by Chrissie Van Mierlo , James Joyce Quarterly , 53, (3-4), 2016, p355-357 Review, 2016

Felicitating the Whole of the Polis in Finnegans Wake in, editor(s)Onto Kosters, Tim Conley, Peter de Voogd , A Long the Krommerun, Leiden, Brill, 2016, pp118 - 126, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2016

The Economy of Joyce's Notetaking in, editor(s)Ronan Crowley and Dirk Van Hulle , New Quotatoes: Joycean Exogenesis in the Digital Age, Leiden, Brill, 2016, pp163 - 170, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2016

James Joyce Quarterly, USA, University of Tulsa, 2015 Editorial Board, 2015

Bilingual Beckett: Beyond the Linguistic Turn in, editor(s)Dirk Van Hulle , The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp114 - 125, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2015

Sam Slote, Review of The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'L'Innommable'/'The Unnamable' , by Dirk Van Hulle and Shane Weller , Modernism/modernity , 22, (2), 2015, p411-412 Review, 2015

Loving the Alien: Egoism, Empathy, Alterity, and Shakespeare Bloom in Stephen's Æsthetics in, editor(s)Laura Pelaschiar , Joyce/Shakespeare, Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 2015, pp128 - 139, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2015

Espacement, the Final Frontier in, editor(s)Elizabeth M. Bonapfel and Tim Conley , Doubtful Points: Joyce and Punctuation, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2014, pp33 - 41, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2014

Pain Degree Zero in, editor(s)S. E. Gontarski , The Edinburgh Companion to Samuel Beckett and the Arts, Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh Press, 2014, pp54 - 63, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2014

Joyce Studies Annual, New York, Fordham University Press, 2013 Editorial Board, 2013

Elvis Presley: The Sun King in, editor(s)Gerald Dawe, Darryl Jones and Nora Pelizzari , Beautiful Strangers: Ireland and the World of the 1950s, Bern, Peter Lang, 2013, pp51 - 61, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2013

Derrida and Joyce: On Totality and Equivocation in, editor(s)Andrew J. Mitchell, Sam Slote , Derrida and Joyce: Texts and Contexts, Albany, State University of New York Press, 2013, pp1 - 16, [Andrew J. Mitchell, Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2013

Joyce's Resonance in Glas in, editor(s)Andrew J. Mitchell, Sam Slote , Derrida and Joyce: Texts and Contexts, Albany, State University of New York Press, 2013, pp133 - 144, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2013

Daniel Ferrer, Sam Slote, and André Topia, Renascent Joyce, Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 2013 Book, 2013

Sam Slote, Joyce's Nietzschean Ethics, New York, Palgrave, 2013, 205pp Book, 2013

Andrew J. Mitchell, Sam Slote, Derrida and Joyce: Texts and Contexts, Albany, State University of New York Press, 2013 Book, 2013

The Joyce Circle in, editor(s)Anthony Uhlmann , Samuel Beckett in Context, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp150 - 159, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2013

Continuing the End: Variation between Beckett's French and English Prose Works in, editor(s)Mark Nixon , Publishing Samuel Beckett, London, The British Library, 2011, pp205 - 218, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2011

The Thomistic Representation of Dublin in Ulysses in, editor(s)Valérie Bénéjam and John Bishop , Making Space in the Works of James Joyce , New York, Routledge, 2011, pp191 - 202, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2011

An Imperfect Wake in, editor(s)Matthew Creasy , Errears and Erroriboose: Joyce and Error, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2011, pp135 - 149, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2011

Sam Slote, Stuck in Translation: Beckett and Borges on Dante, Journal of Beckett Studies, 19, (1), 2010, p15 - 28 Journal Article, 2010 URL

The Life of Brion's 'Idea of Time in the Work of James Joyce' in, editor(s)Tim Conley , Joyce's Disciples Disciplined, Dublin, University College Dublin Press, 2010, pp15 - 23, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2010

Stephen's Nietzschean Ethics in, editor(s)Franca Ruggieri , James Joyce: Metamorphosis and Re-Writing, Rome, Bulzoni, 2010, pp15 - 26, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2010

Structuralism, Deconstruction, Post-Structuralism in, editor(s)John McCourt , James Joyce in Context, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp65 - 75, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2009

Sam Slote, On the Nabokovian Resonance of "The Proustian Theme in a Letter from Keats to Benjamin Bailey", English Text Construction, 2, (2), 2009, p161 - 172 Journal Article, 2009

Buffalo Wakes in, editor(s)James Maynard , Discovering James Joyce, Buffalo, The Poetry Collection, 2009, pp63 - 72, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2009

Sam Slote, Protean Phenomenology and Genealogy, Dublin James Joyce Journal, 2, (1), 2009, p128 - 142 Journal Article, 2009

Sam Slote, Garryowen and the Bloody Mangy Mongrel of Irish Modernity, James Joyce Quarterly, 46, (3-4), 2009, p545 - 557 Journal Article, 2009

Sam Slote, 1904: A Space Odyssey, Joyce Studies Annual, 2008, 2008, p163 - 171 Journal Article, 2008

Dublin James Joyce Journal, Dublin, UCD, 2008 Editorial Board, 2008

Introduction in, editor(s)Luca Crispi and Sam Slote , How Joyce Wrote "Finnegans Wake": A Chapter-by-Chapter Genetic Guide, University of Wisconsin Press, 2007, pp3 - 48, [Crispi L., Van Hulle D. and Slote S.] Book Chapter, 2007

Blanks For When Words Gone: Chapter II.1 in, editor(s)Luca Crispi and Sam Slote , How Joyce Wrote "Finnegans Wake": A Chapter-by-Chapter Genetic Guide, University of Wisconsin Press, 2007, pp181 - 213, [Slote S.] Book Chapter, 2007

Luca Crispi and Sam Slote, How Joyce Wrote Finnegans Wake: A Chapter-by-Chapter Genetic Guide, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 2007, 522pp Book, 2007

Sam Slote, Questioning Technology in "Ithaca", Hypermedia Joyce Studies , 8, (2), 2007 Journal Article, 2007 URL

Thoroughly Modern Modernism: Modernism and its Postmodernisms in, editor(s)Astradur Eysteinsson and Vivian Liska , Modernism, Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2007, pp233 - 249, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2007

Sam Slote, Prolegomenon to the Development of Wakean Styles: New Acquisitions at the National Library of Ireland, James Joyce Quarterly, 42-43, (1-4), 2006, p21 - 30 Journal Article, 2006

Slote S., Prolegomenon to the Development of Wakean Styles: New Acquisitions, James Joyce Quarterly, 42-43, (1-4), 2006, p21 - 30 Journal Article, 2006

Sam Slote, Epiphanic "Proteus", Genetic Joyce Studies, (5), 2005 Journal Article, 2005 URL

Sam Slote, A Eumæan Return to Style, Hypermedia Joyce Studies, 6, (1), 2005 Journal Article, 2005 URL

Sam Slote, On "Worstward Ho", Journal of Beckett Studies, 13, (2), 2004, p188 - 205 Journal Article, 2004

Sam Slote, "Ulysses" in the Plural: The Variable Editions of Joyce's Novel, Dublin, National Library of Ireland, 2004 Book, 2004

Joyce and Science in, editor(s)Jean-Michel Rabaté , Palgrave Advances in James Joyce Studies, New York, Palgrave, 2004, pp162 - 182, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2004

Sam Slote, Gillet lit le Joyce dans la Woolf: Genre in "Orlando" and "Ulysses", Journal of Modern Literature, 27, (4), 2004, p27 - 36 Journal Article, 2004

'Après mot le déluge' 1: Critical Responses to Joyce in France in, editor(s)Geert Lernout and Wim Van Mierlo , The Reception of James Joyce in Europe, volume 2, London, Thoemmes Continuum, 2004, pp362 - 381, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2004

'Après mot le déluge' 2: Literary and Theoretical Responses to Joyce in France in, editor(s)Geert Lernout and Wim Van Mierlo , The Reception of James Joyce in Europe, volume 2, London, Thoemmes Continuum, 2004, pp382 - 410, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2004

No Symbols Where None Intended: Derrida's War at "Finnegans Wake" in, editor(s)Laurent Milesi , James Joyce and the Difference of Language, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp195 - 207, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2003

The Medieval Irony of Joyce's "Portrait" in, editor(s)Lucia Boldrini , Medieval Joyce, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2002, pp185 - 198, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2002

"Odd's without Ends": Raymond Queneau and the Twisted Language of the "Wake" in, editor(s)Dirk Van Hulle , James Joyce: The Study of Languages, Brussels, Peter Lang, 2002, pp23 - 35, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2002

Sam Slote, A Second Look at the "First-Draft Version of 'Finnegans Wake'", Genetic Joyce Studies, (2), 2002 Journal Article, 2002 URL

Sam Slote, Preliminary Comments on Two Newly Discovered "Ulysses" Manuscripts, James Joyce Quarterly, 39, (1), 2001, p17 - 28 Journal Article, 2001

Sam Slote, A Sound-bite Against the Restoration, Genetic Joyce Studies, (1), 2001 Journal Article, 2001 URL

Sam Slote, The Prolific and the Devouring in "The Ondt and the Gracehoper", Joyce Studies Annual, (11), 2000, p49 - 65 Journal Article, 2000

Sam Slote, Reading "Finnegans Wake" Genetically, Text, (13), 2000, p203 - 220 Journal Article, 2000

Sam Slote and Wim Van Mierlo, Genitricksling Joyce, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 1999 Book, 1999

Imposture Book Through the Ages in, editor(s)Sam Slote and Wim Van Mierlo , Genitricksling Joyce, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 1999, pp97 - 114, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 1999

Sam Slote, The Silence in Progress of Dante, Mallarmé, and Joyce, New York, Peter Lang, 1999 Book, 1999

Genetic Joyce Studies, Antwerp, University of Antwerp, 1999 Editorial Board, 1999

Did God Be Come?: The Definitive Exgenesis of HCE in, editor(s)Daniel Ferrer , Writing its Own Wrunes For Ever: Essais de génétique joycienne / Essays in Joycean Genetics, Tusson, Du Lérot, 1998, pp103 - 118, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 1998

Sam Slote, "Nulled Nought": The Desistance of Ulyssean Narrative in "Finnegans Wake", James Joyce Quarterly, 34, (4), 1997, p531 - 542 Journal Article, 1997

Sam Slote, Swerving Shores, Bendings Abeyed, Papers on Joyce, (2), 1996, p117 - 124 Journal Article, 1996

Wilde Thing: Concerning the Eccentricities of a Figure of Decadence in "Finnegans Wake" in, editor(s)David Hayman and Sam Slote , Probes: Genetic Studies in Joyce, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 1995, pp101 - 122, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 1995

David Hayman and Sam Slote, Probes: Genetic Studies in Joyce, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 1995 Book, 1995

Needles in the Camel's Eye: The Time of a Collideorscape in, editor(s)Andrew Treip , teems of times, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 1994, pp69 - 80, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 1994

Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

Aoife King (ed), Rita Duffy, Caitríona Lally, Jacob J. Erickson, Donna Lyons et al., What the Pandemic Means: Perspectives from the Trinity Long Room Hub Covid-19 Blog Collection, 2021, - 1-56 Miscellaneous, 2021 DOI TARA - Full Text

Finnegans Wake An Introduction of Sorts in, Finnegans Wake, London, Alma, 2020, ppv - xx, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2020

Sam Slote, Ulysses Unpicked from Bud to Bloom, Review of Joyce's Creative Process and the Construction of Characters in 'Ulysses' , by Luca Crispi , Irish Times, 2016, p10 Review, 2016

James Joyce, Ulysses, London, Alma Classics, 2012 Book, 2012

A Wake in Chapelizod in, editor(s)Motoko Fujita , In the Shadow of James Joyce, Dublin, Lilliput, 2011, pp48 - 50, [Sam Slote] Book Chapter, 2011

Sam Slote, A Centennial Bloomsday at Buffalo, Buffalo, The Poetry Collection, 2004 Book, 2004

Research Expertise

Description

My primary areas of research are in the works of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett and, by extension, in European Modernist studies more generally. My contributions to this field focus on Joyce and Beckett's manipulation of languages and literary styles and my work is informed by a number of theoretical and critical perspectives, such as genetic criticism (the study of literary manuscripts), textual studies, deconstruction, and translation studies I am currently working on three different large-scale projects. The first is an edition of all-new annotations to Joyce's Ulysses, which updates the work I did for the Alma Classics edition of Ulysses (published in 2012 and revised in 2015 and 2017). The new edition is 620,000 words, which is more than double the length of the Alma edition. It is currently in production at Oxford University Press; the final manuscript was submitted in December 2019 and will be published both in print and on the Oxford Scholarly Editions Online platform in the early autumn of 2021 (the Covid-19 crisis has delayed publication by about six months). My next project is a monograph on the nature of the political in Joyce and Beckett's works, primarily Finnegans Wake and How It Is. The aim of this project is to use Joyce and Beckett to think through a conceptualisation of the political that is not simply partisan or ideological, but rather to be understood in terms of community and communication. This book begins with a genealogy of philosophical considerations on the nature of the political from Aristotle, through Hobbes and Hegel, and to Jean-Luc Nancy, John Rawls, and Richard Rorty. My final project is editing the first ever collection of Joyce's own translations, which span his career as a writer. Because Joyce's translations have never been collected before into one volume, they represent the only aspect of his output that has been almost entirely ignored by critics.

Keywords

James Joyce; Samuel Beckett

Recognition

Representations

Member of the Editorial Board, European Joyce Studies 2017-

Trustee, International James Joyce Foundation 2008-14; 2016-22

Member of the Editorial Board, James Joyce Quarterly 2015-

Member of the Editorial Board, Joyce Studies Annual 2013-

Member of the Editorial Board, Dublin James Joyce Journal 2008-

Member of the Editorial Board, English Text Construction 2007-

Member of the Editorial Board, Litteraria Pragensia 2007-

Member of the Editorial Board, Genetic Joyce Studies 1999-

Referee, Oxford University Press 2018

Referee, The Johns Hopkins University Press 2017

Referee, University of Toronto Press 2015

Referee, University Press of Florida 2017, 2018, 2020

External Examiner, Hertford College, University of Oxford 2010

Referee, Bloomsbury Academic Press 2020

Referee, Palgrave-Macmillan 2020

Referee, University of Michigan Press 2019

Referee, Liverpool University Press 2020

Memberships

Équipe Joyce, Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes 1998 – present

International James Joyce Foundation 1992

International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures 2007

European Society for Textual Scholarship 2007

Beckett International Foundation