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Catherine Flynn works on British and Irish modernist literature within the European avant-garde context. She published the book "James Joyce Matter Paris" with Cambridge University Press in 2019. For the hundred-year anniversary of "Ulysses," she edited "Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: 1922 Text Essays Notes", a critical edition released in 2022 that includes the historic 1922 Shakespeare Company text along with Joyce’s own amendments, maps, and photographs. Flynn is also the co-host of the podcast "U22 The Centenary Ulysses." In September 2022, she published an edited volume titled "New Joyce Studies: Twenty-First Century Critical Revisions." Currently, she is working on a monograph about Flann O'Brien/Myles na gCopaleen/Brian O'Nolan and his comic polyglot Irish column, "Cruiskeen Lawn." Flynn joined the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2012, after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University and a B.A. in English and Philosophy from University College Cork. Flynn has previously worked as an architect in Ireland and Vienna, Austria.
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