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Department of English

Roy Gottfried

Professor Emeritus

Roy Gottfried has been at Vanderbilt since 1975 and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Joyce as well as nineteenth and twentieth century British literature. He has served the department as Director of Graduate Studies and Director of Undergraduate Studies.

Representative publications

Books:

  • Joyce's Misbelief, University Press of Florida: James Joyce Series, Fall, 2007.
  • Joyce's Comic Portrait, University Press of Florida: James Joyce Series, August, 2000.
  • Joyce's Iritis and the Irritated Text, University Press of Florida: James Joyce Series, 1995. Winner, 1995 SAMLA Book Prize
  • The Art of Joyce's Syntax in "Ulysses," Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1980.
  • Articles:
  • "The Church as Industry," James Joyce Quarterly, Spring 2005.
  • "The Audiences of Joyce's Autobiographies" in Joyce's Audiences, (collection), 2002.
  • "Adolescence, Humor, and Adolescent Humor," Joyce Through the Ages, (collection), 1999.


Articles:

  • “American Literature and Christianity” in The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, ed. by Daniel Patte  (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
  • “Error and Testimony,” in Errears and Erroriboose:  Joyce and Error, ed. by Matthew Creasey, European Joyce Studies 20 (Amsterdam; Rodopi, 2011), 43-56.