About
Jeffrey Drouin, Ph.D., is the Frances W. O’Hornett Associate Professor of Literature, editor of the “James Joyce Quarterly,” and co-director of the Modernist Journals Project. He works on Modernism in the transatlantic context, focusing on novels, periodicals, avant-garde movements, World War I and literary responses to art and science. His first book, “James Joyce, Science, and Modernist Print Culture: ‘The Einstein of English Fiction’” reinterprets “Ulysses” and “Finnegans Wake” through discourses of the new physics in literary periodicals and the working notes and drafts of Joyce’s creative process. Drouin is currently writing a book on Gothic church architecture in Marcel Proust’s “À la recherche du temps perdu” and completing a digital humanities project titled “Ecclesiastical Proust Archive.” Other recent publications include the chapter “(Digital) Archives” in “The Edinburgh Companion to First World War Periodicals” (2022) and articles on digital humanities in periodical studies and pedagogy. He currently serves as executive secretary of the International James Joyce Foundation and as a board member of the Society for Textual Scholarship. His courses focus on Modernism, World War I, periodical studies, archival and textual theory and digital humanities.
Education
- Ph.D., Graduate Center of the City University of New York
- M.A., University of Virginia
- B.A., Providence College
Research interests and areas of expertise
- 20th-century literature
- Modernism
- Avant-Garde
- Periodical studies
- James Joyce
- Marcel Proust
- World War I
- Archives
- Textual studies
- Literary theory
- Architecture
- Digital humanities
- Digital pedagogy
- Interdisciplinarity
