Jennifer Levine

Retired Faculty; Associate Professor-Teaching Stream

Campus

Areas of Interest

  • Narrative
  • Interpretation
  • Interdisciplinary reading
  • Detective fiction
  • Translation

Selected Publications

“Ivy Day in the Committee Room” (with Andrew Gibson), in Collaborative Dubliners: Joyce in Dialogue, Ed. Vicky Mahaffey, (Syracuse: Syracuse Univ. Press, 2012), 261-295.

"Other Evelines: Two 19th Century Irish Women in Argentina," in Los viajeros y el Río de la Plata: un siglo de escritura, ed. Jean Philippe Barnabé et al, (Montevideo: Librería Linardi y Risso, 2010), 145-172 .

Ulysses,” in The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce, revised. 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004) 122-148.
(Reprinted from 1st ed. 1990, 131-159)

“James Joyce, Tattoo Artist: Tracing the Outlines of Homosocial Desire,” Quare Joyce, ed. Joseph Valente, (Ann Arbor: Michigan Univ.Press, 1998), 101-120.
(Reprinted from James Joyce Quarterly 31 (1994): 277-308.)

“A Brief Allegory of Readings: 1972-1992,” and “Nausicaa: For (Wo)Men Only?” in Joyce in the Hibernian Metropolis, ed Morris Beja and David Norris, (Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press, 1996), 128-134 and 181-189.

“Rounding Up the Usual Suspects: A Response,” Novel 29 (1995): 101-113.

“Originality and Repetition in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake,” in Modern Critical Views: James Joyce, ed. Harold Bloom (N.Y.: Chelsea House, 1986), 91-112.
(Reprinted from PMLA 94 (1979): 106-120.)

“Readers and Novels,” University of Toronto Quarterly 53 (1984): 296-312.

“Reading Ulysses,” in Centre and Labyrinth: Essays in Honour of Northrop Frye, ed. Eleanor Cook et al, (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1983), 264-283.

“Rejoycings in Tel Quel,” James Joyce Quarterly 16 (1979): 17-26.

Biography

Jennifer Levine holds a joint appointment in Literary and Critical Theory at Victoria College where she has taught courses on Joyce’s Ulysses, contemporary writing in Europe and Latin America, early modern and nineteenth century literature, the realist novel, and cinematic adaptation. Her current project is in translation (writers from Argentina and Uruguay). Her deepest interest is in teaching.

Education

Hons. BA, University of British Columbia
PhD, University of London