The Occasional Guest
Michelle Martinez
Michelle is an indexer and permissions coordinator for a large poetry org, recovering academic, and chicana feminist crockpot fiend with a PhD in English Lit—not to mention Wendy’s grad school BFF.
Episode: “Nestor: ‘Amor Matris’”
Charlie Bennett
Charlie is the Public Engagement Librarian at the Georgia Institute of Technology and co-host of the rock’n’roll library show Lost in the Stacks on WREK Atlanta and Apple Podcasts. He is also the person to talk to if you are interested in podcasting or teaching podcasting at Georgia Tech.
Episode: “Scylla and Charybdis: ‘The quaker librarian purred’”
Catherine Flynn
Catherine is associate professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of James Joyce and the Matter of Paris (2019) and the editor of the forthcoming New Joyce Studies and the recently released The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses, a new edition of Ulysses that contains new notes, essays, and the 1922 text of Ulysses in facsimile. Catherine is also a Ulysses podcaster! She hosts U22 The Centenary Ulysses Podcast.
Episode: “Lestrygonians Retrospective Arrangement: ‘God. Save. Our.’”
Vicki Mahaffey
Vicki is the Clayton and Thelma Kirkpatrick Chair of English and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton, was a professor with a specialty in Modernism and modern Irish literature at Penn, and held the chair of Modern Literature at the University of York, England.
Most importantly to us, she was Wendy’s Ph.D. advisor!
Episode: “Scylla and Charybdis: ‘Errors are volitional and the portals of discovery’”
Katherine O’Callaghan
Katherine is a lecturer at UMass Amherst. SHer specialties include James Joyce, modernism, Irish literature, and the role of music in novels. She received her PhD on the topic of Joyce and Music from University College Dublin. She is currently completing a monograph on Music and Soundscape in James Joyce’s Ulysses and Finnegans Wake!
Episode: “Sirens: ‘Pprrpffrrppffff’ with Katherine O’Callaghan”
Liam Lanigan
Liam is an assistant professor of English at Governors State University in South Chicago. He briefly overlapped with Eric at Notre Dame as a National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow in the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies. He specializes in urban studies, Irish studies, and realism.
Most interestingly for our podcast, though, his Twitter bio labels him a “former Joycean.”
Episode: “Trams: ‘mangongwheeltracktrolleyglarejuggernaut’ with Liam Lanigan”
Jeremy Colangelo
Jeremy is a lecturer at the University of Western Ontario and a specialist in Joyce and disability studies. He is the author of Diaphenous Bodies: Ability, Disability, and Modernist Irish Literature and editor of Joyce Writing Disability. He’s also one of Shinjini and Eric’s conference friends from various Joyce and modernism get-togethers, although it’s been a few years since any of them have seen each other in person.
Episode: “Nausicaa: ‘Namby-pamby marmalady drawersy’ with Jeremy Colangelo”
Declan Kiberd
Declan is an Irish public intellectual who has taught at University College Dublin, the University of Notre Dame, and the Sorbonne. He taught Eric and Shinjini at Notre Dame, and both are featured in his recent collection The Book About Everything: Eighteen Artists, Writers, and Thinkers on James Joyce’s Ulysses.
Episode: “Declan Kiberd’s Love, Hate, and Don’t Get Episodes: ‘Mn. No, she did not want anything”