Dr. Colleen Jaurretche

Biography

Colleen Jaurretche is a Continuing Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she specializes in twentieth and twenty-first century British and Irish literature. Her book, ‘The Sensual Philosophy’: Joyce Aesthetics Mysticism (Wisconsin, 1997), investigates theological works from the sixteenth century in examination of James Joyce’s writing within the context of negative theology. Her subsequent publication, Language Prayer Finnegans Wake (UP Florida, James Joyce Series, 2020), merges insights from antiquity, the Middle Ages, early Enlightenment, and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to explore the conditions surrounding language and prayer. Jaurretche has edited collections of essays on Joyce and Samuel Beckett and has contributed to several academic journals, including the James Joyce Quarterly and European Joyce Studies Annual. She is currently working on a memoir that reflects her experiences growing up as a daughter and granddaughter of schizophrenics, interweaving memories, migration narratives, and landscapes shaped by her Mexican, European, and Indigenous heritage. In 2010, she co-founded and co-directs the Libros Schmibros Lending Library in Boyle Heights, a historically underserved neighborhood in Los Angeles, which has put 70,000 books into the hands of the community and hosts various public programs.

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