R. Brandon Kershner
Professor
R. Brandon Kershner received his MA from
The Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars in 1966 and his PhD in English
and Comparative Literature from Stanford University in 1972. He has been a member
of the UF faculty since 1971.
He is the author of Dylan Thomas: The Poet and His Critics (1977); Joyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Literature (UNC Press, 1989), which won the 1990 award in literary criticism from the American Conference for Irish Studies; The Twentieth-Century Novel: An Introduction (Bedford Books, 1997); and numerous articles on Joyce, other modern writers, and topics within cultural studies. He is the editor of the critical edition of Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist from Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press (1992), and two collections of essays on Joyce: Joyce and Popular Culture (UF Press, 1996) and Cultural Studies of Joyce (Rodopi, 2003). His poetry and translations have appeared in such journals as Poetry and APR.
Professor Kershner is serving a six-year term as a Trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation, and in 1999 was named University of Florida Alumni Professor of English.
Contact
- office: Turlington Hall 4324
- voice: (352) 294-2831
- fax: (352) 392-0860
- email: <kershner@ufl.edu>