Thomas Jackson Rice

Professor

Office: 307 Humanities Office Building,

(803) 777-7121
tomrice@sc.edu

Education

Ph.D. Princeton University, 1971

Specialization Areas

• Modern and Postmodern fiction, principally British and Anglophone

Recent Courses

See Course Descriptions for detailed information.

• ENGL 825A    James Joyce's Ulysses

Current Research Project(s)

(forthcoming book) Cannibal Joyce [2008]
(book in progress) The Contemporary Novel of Complexity
articles on Joyce, Conrad, DeLillo, Coetzee and others in press and in circulation

Publications

“Ulysses and the Kingdom of Shadows.” James Joyce Quarterly 40.1-2 (Fall 2002): 161-68 [2005].

“Conrad, Condoms, and Joyce.” Twenty-First Joyce. Ed. Morris Beja and Ellen Carol Jones. Gainesville: Univ. of Florida Press, 2004, 219-38.

“I Do Mince Words, Don’t I? Ulysses in Tempore Belli.” joyceMedia: James Joyce, Hypermedia & Textual Genetics. Ed. Louis Armand. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2004, 144-51.

"His Master's Voice and Joyce." Cultural Studies of James Joyce. Ed. R.B. Kershner. European Joyce Studies 15. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003, 149-66.

Recent Papers and Guest Lectures (selected)

“Art as Prophylaxis: Condomization in The Secret Agent.” Conrad’s Polish-Ukrainian Footprints, 4th International Joseph Conrad Conference, Lublin & Kazimierz Dolny (Poland), 20 June 2006.

“Tele/Tell a Vision in Finnegans Wake.” Joycean Unions, 20th International James Joyce Symposium, Budapest, 15 June 2006.

“Joyce the Cannibal.” University of Vienna, 8 June 2006.

“Caliban Bloom: Cannibalism in Ulysses.” 34th Annual Twentieth-Century Literature Conference 2006, Louisville KY, 24 February 2006.

“Joyce the Cannibal.” Return to Ithaca, North American James Joyce Conference, Ithaca, NY, 17 June 2005. [Plenary Address]

“Chaos Theory and Literature.” Invited Visiting Lecturer. Moscow State University, 14-16 October 2003. e