2025 Dr. John Bishop Memorial Visiting Scholar Talk by Dr. Jessica Marian

by JAMES MAYNARD

The Poetry Collection's 2025 John Bishop Memorial Visiting Scholar was Dr. Jessica Marian.

Marian is a McKenzie postdoctoral research fellow in English at the University of Melbourne in Australia. Her interdisciplinary research investigates how institutions and infrastructures shape modern and contemporary knowledge production, with a specific focus on periodicals, the genre of the review essay, catalogues, and the modernist bookstore. Her work has appeared in Angelaki, New Literary History, Australian Humanities Review, and Australian Literary Studies. She was a visiting researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles for the 2025 fall quarter. She is convenor of the Critical Research Association Melbourne (CRAM) and co-editor of Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy.

We invite you to enjoy her talk, "James Joyce's Postcard Poems."

About the Bishop Fund:

Established by Dr. Joseph Valente, UB Distinguished Professor, Department of English, the Dr. John Bishop Memorial Visiting Scholar Fund award provides a travel stipend for visiting scholars and graduate students whose research is centered on the writings of James Joyce, Modernism, Joyce-related research, Sylvia Beach, Modernist publishers, Modernist genetic criticism, Joyce’s literary circle, his literary colleagues, or his influences.

Please consider making a gift today to the Dr. John Bishop Memorial Visiting Scholar Fund.