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Vicki Mahaffey

Professor

Research Interests

Gender/Sexuality Studies, Irish Studies, Modern British, Theory & Criticism, Women's Literature

Education

Ph.D., Princeton University; M.A., Princeton University; B.A., University of Texas at Austin

Courses Taught

Modernist literature; Irish literature; fairy tales and gender formation; Beckett; Eliot; Homer; Joyce; Wilde; Woolf; Yeats; literary authority and the Holocaust

Additional Campus Affiliations

Clayton and Thelma Kirkpatrick Professor, English
Professor, English
Professor, Gender and Women's Studies

Highlighted Publications

Mahaffey, V. (1988). Reauthorizing Joyce. Cambridge University Press.

Mahaffey, V. (1998). States of Desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish Experiment. Oxford University Press.

Mahaffey, V. (2007). Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions. Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470775721

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Recent Publications

Ellmann, M., White, S., & Mahaffey, V. (2021). The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism. (Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities). Edinburgh University Press.

Mahaffey, V. (2021). Irish Christian Comedy: Heresy or Reform? In M. Ellmann, S. White, & V. Mahaffey (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism (Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities). Edinburgh University Press.

Mahaffey, V., & Truran, W. J. (2020). Feeling Ulysses: An Address to the Cyclopean Reader. In P. Kitcher (Ed.), Joyce's Ulysses: Philosophical Perspectives (pp. 100-131). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190842260.003.0004

Mahaffey, V. (2017). Darkening Freedom: Yeats, Joyce, Beckett. In V. Sherry (Ed.), The Cambridge History of Modernism (pp. 646-662). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139540902.040

Mahaffey, V. (2015). “Ricorso”: The Flaming Door of IV. In K. J. Devlin, & C. Smedley (Eds.), Joyce's Allmaziful Plurabilities: Polyvocal Explorations of Finnegans Wake (pp. 290-306). (The Florida James Joyce Series). University Press of Florida. https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813061542.003.0018

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