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R B. Kershner <kershner@ufl.edu> University of Florida Specialist on James Joyce, popular culture |
| Address: | Dept. of English University of Florida Gainesville, Florida 32611-7310 United States |
| Primary Phone: | 352-335-9495 |
| Secondary Phone: | 352-392-6650 |
| Web Page: | http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~kershner/ |
| List Affiliations: | Advisory Board Member for H-James-Joyce |
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Bio: R. Brandon Kershner is Alumni Professor of English at the University of Florida. He is the author of three books: Dylan Thomas: The Poet and His Critics (1977), Joyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Literature (1989), and The Twentieth-Century Novel: An Introduction (1997). He is also the editor of the Bedford Books edition of Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1992) and of Joyce and Popular Culture (1996). He has published some thirty articles and book chapters on various aspects of modern literature and culture, and a similar number of reviews and poems. Joyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Literature won the 1990 award from the American Conference for Irish Studies as the best work of literary criticism in the field. Kershner is a member of the Board of Advisory Editors of the James Joyce Quarterly, and was recently elected to the Board of Trustees of the International Joyce Foundation, where he serves as one of nine members from North America. |
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