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
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