Kimberly J. Devlin, Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Michigan

(951) 827-1830
kimberly.devlin@ucr.edu

Kimberly J. Devlin (B.A. Bryn Mawr, Ph.D University of Michigan) is a specialist in James Joyce, currently serving as a member of the Board of Trustees of the International James Joyce Foundation. Her teaching and research interests extend to the modern period in its broader parameters, psychoanalytic theory, cultural studies, and feminist/en-gendered approaches to literature. She is the author of James Joyce's Fraudstuff (University Press of Florida, 2002) and Wandering and Return in "Finnegans Wake": An Integrative Approach to Joyce's Fictions (Princeton University Press, 1991. Her essays have appeared in James Joyce Quarterly, PMLA, Novel, Modern Fiction Studies; Critical Essays on James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake," (G.K. Hall, 1992), Molly Blooms (University of Wisconsin Press, 1994), and A Companion to James Joyce's "Ulysses" (Bedford Books, 1998). She has co-edited "Ulysses"--En-Gendered Perspectives: Eighteen New Essays of the Episodes (with Marilyn Reizbaum) and Joycean Cultures/Culturing Joyces (with Vincent J. Cheng and Margot Norris). Her most recent publications include "Taste and Consumption in 'Ulysses'" (a contribution to a monograph series organized by the National Library of Ireland Joyce 2004, in honor of the centennial of "Bloomsday"), "The Scopic Drive and Visual Projection in Heart of Darkness" (Modern Fiction Studies 2006), and "En-Gendered Choice and Agency in 'Ulysses'" (in “Ulysses in Critical Perspective”,'" University Press of Florida, 2006).