Professor Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania; Kirkpatrick Professor Emerita of English and GWS at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; former Guggenheim fellow; elected member of board of trustees, International James Joyce Foundation; Carol and Gordon Segal Distinguished Visiting Professor of Irish Studies, Northwestern University. Author of Reauthorizing Joyce; States of Desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce and the Irish Experiment; Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions; The Joyce of Everyday Life. Editor of Collaborative Dubliners: Joyce in Dialogue. Co-editor (with Maud Ellmann and Siân White) of Irish Modernism (Edinburgh University Press).