Dr Wim Van Mierlo Lecturer in Textual Scholarship and English Literature Tel:  020 7862 8679 Email: wim.van-mierlo@sas.ac.uk

Wim Van Mierlo has obtained degrees from the University of Antwerp (BA, MA) and the University of Miami (PhD), where he wrote a thesis on Joyce's Sources: Intertextuality and Pretextuality in Finnegans Wake. Besides the genesis of the late work of James Joyce, his research interests include textual editing, historical bibliography and book history, modern literary manuscripts, reception history, literary history and canon formation, the study of marginalia and reading notes, migration and Irish literature, historical representations in twentieth-century fiction in English, and literature and photography. During the autumn term 2008 he is on sabbatical to complete his edition of the avant-textes of W.B. Yeats's Where There Is Nothing and The Unicorn from the Stars for the Cornell Yeats Series and a Chronology of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes for the Palgrave Macmillan Authors Chronologies Series. He is also working on a book manuscript, with the working titleThe Poem-in-Draft: Revisions and Revelations in Poetry, studying the composition processes and working methods of a number of poets from the nineteenth (Wordsworth, Keats, Swinburne) and twentieth (Yeats, Owen, Eliot, Plath, Hughes) centuries.

Together with Ronald Schuchard, he is directing the inaugural T.S. Eliot International Summer School in the summer of 2009. He also convenes the MSS: Modern Manuscripts Studies Seminar (for a blog associated with this seminar please click here) and he is co-convenor of the University of London Finnegans Wake Research Seminar. In November 2006 he was elected Board Member of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS) and became Book Review Editor of Variants.

Teaching:
Exile and Emigration in Irish Writing (NILE Core Course)
Modern Literary Manuscripts (LRBS)
Textual Scholarship and Contemporary Editorial Theory (HoB Option Course)
Methods and Resources: Study Days for M.A. students

Supervision of Research Students:
Dr Van Mierlo is happy to supervise PhD students on any of the above topics or on wider issues relating to the work of James Joyce, Anglo-American modernism and/or Anglo-Irish literature.

Publications

Edited volumes

Genitricksling Joyce. Eds. Sam Slote and Wim Van Mierlo. European Joyce Studies 9. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999

Reading Notes. Eds. Dirk Van Hulle and Wim Van Mierlo. Variants: Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship 2/3 (2004).

The Reception of James Joyce in Europe. Eds. Geert Lernout and Wim Van Mierlo. London: Continuum, 2004.  

Articles

"St. Martin of Tours", A Finnegans Wake Circular 7 (1991-92): 29-44.

"Paul van Ostaijens 'Verkeerde' Wereld: Een Vlaamse Vorm van Sade", Er Waart een Spook door 't Huis: 9 Opstellen over Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Ed. Kris Humbeeck, Restant 21.1 (1993): 97-133.

"Traffic in Transit: Some Spatio-Temporal Elements in Finnegans Wake", "Finnegans Wake": Teems of Times, ed. Andrew Treip. European Joyce Studies 4. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994. 107-17.

"The Freudful Couchmare Revisited: Contextualizing Joyce and the New Psychology", Joyce Studies Annual 1997, ed. Thomas F. Staley, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997, 115-153.

"Indexing the Buffalo Notebooks: Genetic Criticism and the Construction of Evidence", Writing Its Own Wrunes For Ever: Essays in Joycean Genetics, eds. Daniel Ferrer and Claude Jacquet, Tusson, France: Du Lérot, 1998, 168-191.

"Finnegans Wake and the Question of Histry!?" Genitricksling Joyce, eds. Sam Slote and Wim Van Mierlo, European Joyce Studies 9, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999, 43-64.

"Tropologie en Geschiedenis in het Werk van de Franse Fotograaf Nadar", Obscuur 6.18 (December 2000): 28-37.

"Spatial Memory in David Bradley's Chaneysville Incident and Fred D'Aguiar's Dear Future: New Literatures, History, and Literary History", Convergences and Interferences: Newness in Intercultural Practices, eds. Kathleen Gyssels, Isabel Hoving and Maggie Bowers, Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race 8, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001, 235-54.

"Catholicism, Nationalism, and Exile: Sheed and Ward's Irish Way in VI.B.34", Genetic Joyce Studies 2 (Spring 2002), On-line [Co-author: Ingeborg Landuyt].

"Neutral Auxiliaries and Universal Idioms: Otto Jespersen in 'Work in Progress'", James Joyce: The Study of Languages, ed. Dirk Van Hulle, New Comparative Poetics 6, Brussels: PEI/Peter Lang, 2002, 55-70. [Co-author: Erika Rosiers].

"Reading Joyce in and out of the Archive".Joyce Studies Annual 2002. Ed. Thomas F. Staley. Austin: University of Austin Press, 2002. 32-65.

"Pynchon, Postmodernism and Quantification: An Empirical Content Analysis of Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow", Language and Literature 12 (February 2003): 27-41 [Co-authors: Luc Herman, Robert Hogenraad].

'Reading W.B. Yeats: The Marginalia of T. Sturge Moore', Reading Notes, eds. Dirk Van Hulle and Wim Van Mierlo, Special issue of Variants: Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship 2/3 (2004): 135-72.

"Stemmatics, Genetics, and the Genealogy of James Joyce's Later Works". The Evolution of Texts: Confronting Stemmatological and Genetical Methods. Eds. Caroline Macé, Philippe Baret, Andrea Bozzi et al. Pisa, Roma: Institute Editoriali e Poligrafica Internazionale, 2006. 229-51.

'The Greater Ireland beyond the Sea: James Joyce, Exile, and Irish Emigration'. Joyce, Ireland, Britain. Eds. Andrew Gibson and Len Platt. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. 178-97.

“The Subject Notebook: A Nexus in the Composition History of Ulysses —A Preliminary Analysis”. Genetic Joyce Studies 7 (Spring 2007): <http://www.antwerpjamesjoycecenter.com/GJS/>

“James Joyce and Caradoc Evans”. Genetic Joyce Studies 7 (Spring 2007): <http://www.antwerpjamesjoycecenter.com/GJS/>

Contributions to reference works

"Flann O'Brien", Post-War Literatures in English: A Lexicon of Contemporary Authors, Groningen: Martinus Nijhoff, [June] 2001, 1-20

"Samuel Beckett", "Seamus Heaney", "James Joyce", Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Twentieth Century, 1914-2000, ed. John Powell, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2004.

"Fred D'Aguiar", Post-War Literatures in English: A Lexicon of Contemporary Authors, Groningen: Martinus Nijhoff, September 2005.

"Ulysses", The Literary Encyclopedia , The Literary Dictionary Company, 18 February 2006.

"Dubliners", The Literary Encyclopedia. The Literary Dictionary Company, 10 April 2006.