The Three Friends
Shinjini Chattopadhyay
Shinjini has a PhD in English from the University of Notre Dame. She is an incoming Assistant Professor of Global Anglophone Literature at Berry College, Mount Berry, GA. She was formerly a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech.
Shinjini fell in love with Joyce when she first read parts of Ulysses for a Masters course at Jadavpur University. She fell deeper into Joyce Studies after she attended the Joyce summer schools in Trieste and Dublin and wrote part of her doctoral dissertation on Finnegans Wake. Her work on Joyce can be found in Joyce Studies in Italy, European Joyce Studies, The Book about Everything, and James Joyce Quarterly (forthcoming).
Shinjini’s other interests include reading contemporary anglophone literatures and watching world cinema. She is a great admirer of Iranian new wave films.
Tipsy-wise Shinjini likes a good cup of Darjeeling. When she makes tea, she makes tea.
Eric Lewis
Eric is a Joyce scholar with a Ph.D. in English from the University of Notre Dame. He is currently a Brittain Fellow at Georgia Tech and Academic Director for Common Good Atlanta.
His Joyce obsessions include informants, mapping, public transit, Bloom’s household possessions, and minor characters. (The fewer times they appear, the better!) He has published work on Joyce in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies and The Book About Everything.
When not thinking about Joyce, he loves a good scary movie and/or podcast. His other podcasts include Technically Pop, a pop culture discussion podcast, The Buzz Word, a writing center interview podcast, and Residential Spread, a podcast reporting on college and the coronavirus from the perspective of contingent faculty.
Tipsy-wise, he is still looking for a hard alcohol he can stomach, but for now still prefers sour beers.
Wendy J. Truran
tl;dr: Wendy reads, researches, and writes about Joyce (and other Modernists) and joy. She also shares her birthday with James Joyce.
“Oh, I’ve never read that” or “I tried to read that and gave up” accompanied with a slightly chagrined look is the usual response to my saying, “I write about James Joyce’s work, particularly Ulysses.” Having lived the majority of my life quite happily having not read Ulysses, my usual response is to say, “Don’t feel bad about it, no one should read Ulysses, it’s an incredibly hard book to read; but it can also be an incredibly enjoyable book, especially if you read it in the company of others and with a tasty (maybe boozy) beverage.” And so, the seed for tipsyturvy Ulysses was planted.
Wendy is a Visiting Lecturer in writing and communications at the Georgia Institute of Technology and earned her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her scholarship focuses on transnational modernism and affect—basically she thinks and writes about feelings. She has published work on James Joyce, W. B. Yeats, and May Sinclair. She is also one of the founding editors of the peer-reviewed journal Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry.
Tipple-wise, being Northern English she’ll drink almost anything really, especially if it’s free. Wendy likes beer (lagers, ales, porters, and stouts but hates IPAs), wine, and gin. She also loves a good, strong brew.