Luca Crispi

Luca Crispi is Associate Professor in James Joyce Studies and Modernism at the School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin (UCD), and affiliated with the UCD Centre for Research in James Joyce Studies. He is a founding co-editor of the Dublin James Joyce Journal and director of the Dublin James Joyce Summer School. He has held significant research positions at the National Library of Ireland and the University at Buffalo.

His research focuses on James Joyce, particularly the textual, archival, and genetic dimensions of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. Key areas include narratology, editorial theory, material modernism, and the construction of literary characters. His influential monograph Joyce's Creative Process and the Construction of Characters in "Ulysses": Becoming the Blooms (Oxford University Press, 2015) exemplifies his methodological rigor in genetic criticism. His recent co-edited volume James Joyce and Paul L. Léon: The Story of a Friendship Revisited (2022) further demonstrates his archival expertise.

His recent publications, spanning journals like James Joyce Quarterly and Genetic Joyce Studies, reveal a consistent focus on the evolution of characters, manuscript discrepancies, and the material history of Joyce's works. Themes across his articles include the development of minor characters, the chronology of the Blooms' relationship, and the editorial challenges posed by Joyce's manuscripts.

• Board Member, International James Joyce Foundation (2007–12; 2017–22)
• Founding Co-Editor, Dublin James Joyce Journal (2008–20)
• Co-Editor, The Joyce Studies 2004 Series (2004–5)
• Co-Editor, How Joyce Wrote "Finnegans Wake" (2007)
• Expert Consultant, Sotheby's (2008)

Luca Crispi has supervised graduate students and coordinated key modules such as Reading Joyce, Reading Ulysses, and Writing Dublin. He has secured research grants, including for the Joyce's 'Ulysses': Centenary Reading Performance and Arts Series (2019–2022). He is actively involved in the academic community through peer review for journals like Modernism/Modernity and Mosaic, and as a member of the Modern Language Association and the International James Joyce Foundation.

He has curated major exhibitions on James Joyce and W.B. Yeats at the National Library of Ireland and has completed a comprehensive catalogue of the Buffalo Joyce Collections. His current major project is a biography of James Joyce titled A Writer's Life.