Join us at the James Joyce Centre for an in-depth discussion of literary genetics, Finnegans Wake, and Lucia Joyce with Canadian scholar Dr. Genevieve Sartor on Friday, 8 November 2024 at 6.30pm.
Genevieve will navigate what literary genetics means, the complexities of Joyce's final novel through a focus on the archive and pre-book publications, and consider the importance of artistic process in Joyce's final work. Special focus will be paid to Joyce's daughter Lucia, who was instrumental in the creative process. Her talk precedes the publication of her forthcoming book, Literary Genetics: Modernism and Theories of Mind, which will be published by Bloomsbury in the spring of 2025.
Dr. Genevieve Sartor is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Lakehead University in the Department of Health and Behavioural Sciences. She holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin and MScR from the University of Edinburgh. She has been a guest speaker at the University of Galway, the University of Oxford, and the Johannes Gutenburg University of Mainz, and was a visiting scholar at the James Joyce Foundation in Zurich. She has published on subjects pertaining to her research, which include James Joyce, modernist literature, critical theory, psychoanalysis, and theories of mind in the Journal of Modern Literature, the University of Toronto Quarterly, and "James Joyce and the Arts" (EUP 2025). Her book Literary Genetics: Modernism and Theories of Mind is forthcoming with Bloomsbury in Spring of 2025.
Doors open at 6pm. The event is free but booking is required.
The James Joyce Centre is supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.
