James Heffernan is Professor of English, Emeritus and Frederick Sessions Beebe '35 Professor in the Art of Writing at Dartmouth College. Having originally specialized in English Romanticism, he has published studies of all six major Romantic poets, on the cultural impact of the French Revolution, and on the relations between English Romantic poetry and landscape painting. He examines more generally the relation between visual art and language in his latest book,
Cultivating Picturacy. Having taught for many years a seminar on James Joyce’s
Ulysses, he has recorded a set of lectures on it and published an article on the final chapter. Presently he is working on a study of hospitality and treachery in Western literature.
Articles by James Heffernan on the Modernism Lab Wiki:
Woolf's Reading of Joyce's Ulysses, 1918-1920
Woolf's Reading of Joyce's Ulysses, 1922-1941
