<p>Hey, I’ve looked on Google and CC, but I couldn’t find an answer to my question: Is there a course devoted entirely to James Joyce at Princeton? (similar to James Heffernan’s course at Dartmouth?)</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I’m sure there are courses at Princeton where people read Ulysses and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, but in order to have a full course devoted to James Joyce you have to have someone on the faculty whose primary interest is James Joyce, and not every college has that. In fact, most don’t. I’m pretty sure Princeton doesn’t. The people of whom I’m aware there who are interested in modernism are mainly focused on other corners of modernism (e.g., Virginia Woolf, or Kafka).</p>
<p>Joyce scholarship is mainstream, but it’s not THAT mainstream. And he and his ilk (dead, white, male, Western European, elitist, formally innovative but nonpolitical or conservative politically) are somewhat out of academic fashion.</p>
<p>I knew Joyce was a dead white Western European male, but didn’t know he was elitist too. Then I found this: [Intentionally</a> Bad Criticism: James Joyce’s Elitist Agenda in Dubliners](<a href=“http://intentionallybadcriticism.blogspot.com/2010/02/james-joyces-elitist-agenda-in.html]Intentionally”>Intentionally Bad Criticism: James Joyce’s Elitist Agenda in Dubliners)</p>
<p>Now I know better. And he hated periods too.</p>