RADFORD -- English professor Jolanta Wawrzycka recently has published two invitational essays on James Joyce and translation.

The Joyce scholar contributed a chapter to a book, James Joyce in Context, published this year by Cambridge University Press. Wawrzycka’s chapter, “Translation,” represents a new angle of studying Joyce and establishes translation as a separate field of inquiry. More traditional contexts for studying James Joyce include Biography, Gender, Psychoanalysis, Modernism, Cinema, Music, Politic, Philosophy, Religion and Science, as well as Dublin, Trieste and Paris, cities where Joyce lived and worked. Joyce in Context can be viewed online.

Another Wawrzycka publication, “’A stride at a time’ (U3.11): Thoughts on Translating Critical Readings of Ulysses,” appeared in Papers on Joyce, journal published by the Spanish James Joyce Society. The essay considers obstacles in translating English language Joycean criticism into foreign languages, notably into Polish, Russian, French and Italian, due to the fact that the existing translations of Joyce’s works into those languages do not always support the claims and interpretations proposed by English-language critics.

Wawrzycka’s newest work is forthcoming in Italy, in mediæzioni: Online Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies on Languages and Cultures and in Annals of the University of Târgu-Jiu published in Târgu-Jiu, Romania.

Wawrzycka’s work on Joyce and translation has appeared in five earlier books: ReJoycing: New Readings of Dubliners (ed. Bosinelli and Moser, UP of Kentucky, 1998), A Collideorscape of Joyce (ed. Frehner and Zeller, Liliput Press, Ireland, 1998), Reception of James Joyce in Europe (ed. Lernout and Van Mierlo, Thoemmes 2004), Twenty-First Joyce (ed. Beja and Jones, UP of Florida, 2004), Joyce Studies in Italy (ed. Bosinelli and Torresi, Bulzoni Editore, Rome, 2007).