Learning to be Joyce's Contemporaries: Annotating James Joyce in the Age of the Search Engine

Wednesday 27^th November, in Trent A46, 4pm.

Dr Steven Morrison, University of Nottingham

Steven will be talking about his experiences in annotating two volumes of the new Penguin Classics editions of James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses. These works have been annotated many times before and these new editions will be published into a world where much if not all of the information needed to make sense of the manifold quotations, allusions, and references to the novels’ own time and culture is freely available online. Steven will be exploring the purpose of a new set of annotations through a pedagogic lens and reflecting on what this exercise has to say about the contemporary moment, both within the academy and beyond it.