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FOX BRIAN THOMAS
 
Organization
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Associate Professor
Position
Associate Professor
Profile

Brian Fox is an Associate Professor of English at Okayama University, Japan. His research focuses on modern Irish literature, in particular James Joyce and John McGahern. Publications on the former include James Joyce’s America (Oxford University Press, 2019), a newly edited Penguin edition of Finnegans Wake (2025), and articles in various journals, including the James Joyce Quarterly. Research on the latter has been published in the Irish University Review and Irish Studies Review, with an emphasis on an archival approach (work ongoing). He has actively promoted research and interest in Irish literature in Japan through his editorship of the Journal of Irish Studies, the journal of IASIL Japan, and moderating events with contemporary writers (EU Literature Festival 2022; Okayama City UNESCO Creative Cities Network talk event, 2024).

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Degree

  • Ph.D ( University of London )

Research Interests

  • James Joyce

  • Irish Literature

  • British Literature

  • Modernism

  • Historicism

Research Areas

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / English literature and literature in the English language  / British Literature

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / English literature and literature in the English language  / Irish Literature

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / English literature and literature in the English language  / James Joyce

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / English literature and literature in the English language  / Modernism

Education

  • University of London, Royal Holloway   Faculty of Humanities, English Department   PhD

    2008.10 - 2014.12

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  • University of London, Goldsmiths College   Faculty of Humanities, English Department   MA in Twentieth-Century Literature and its Contexts

    2005.9 - 2006.11

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  • University of Dublin, Trinity College   School of English   English Studies

    1999.9 - 2003.7

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  • University of Paris VII   Erasmus Programme   Erasmus Programme

    2001.9 - 2002.7

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Research History

  • Okayama University   School of Letters   Associate Professor

    2017.4

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  • Kyushu University   School of Letters   Visiting Lecturer

    2015.4 - 2017.3

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Professional Memberships

  • THE JAMES JOYCE SOCIETY OF JAPAN

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  • The International James Joyce Foundation

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  • THE JAPAN BRANCH OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF IRISH LITERATURES

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  • THE ENGLISH LITERARY SOCIETY OF JAPAN

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Committee Memberships

  • IASIL Japan   Executive Committee  

    2025.4   

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  • Journal of Irish Studies   Editor  

    2022.1 - 2025.3   

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  • Journal of Irish Studies, IASIL Japan   Editorial Board member  

    2018.6   

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  •   ユリシーズ研究会・司会  

    2015.8   

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Papers

  • Generic/Genetic Images: Constructing and Translating Race in "Circe" and its Drafts Manuscripts Reviewed

    Brian Fox

    Joycean Japan   34   21 - 35   2023.6

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  • Transatlantic connections in John McGahern's The Leavetaking Reviewed

    Brian Fox

    IRISH STUDIES REVIEW   30 ( 1 )   65 - 81   2022.1

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    John McGahern is most often regarded as an artist of the local or the "self-enclosed world," as Declan Kiberd puts it. His works explore the lives and loves of characters in settings that correspond closely with the localities of McGahern's youth in the north-west of Ireland. Accordingly, the themes of his work are often aligned with those of other "provincial" Irish realists, in Kavanagh's sense of the word: religion, exile, and local identities or selves. This paper, however, focuses on instances where McGahern contrasts the self with the non-self in distinct national-cultural terms. Specifically, in The Leavetaking, as well as the short stories "Doorways" and "Bank Holiday," he introduces American characters (women in all three cases) as much, it would seem, to provide the spark of a love-interest for those stories' drifting male protagonists as to provide a commentary on Ireland by way of comparison with America and American perceptions of Ireland. In doing so, McGahern deploys a transatlantic vocabulary of circulation and movement that reflects the openness of his enclosed locality to the non-local, the self to the non-self.

    DOI: 10.1080/09670882.2022.2037269

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  • ‘All sorts of wonderful impossibilities’: Tracing the Genesis of John McGahern’s ‘Doorways’ Reviewed

    Brian Fox

    Irish University Review   51 ( 2 )   343 - 359   2021.11

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  • Sots, Songs, and Stereotypes: 1916, the Fighting Irish, and Irish-American Nationalism in Finnegans Wake Reviewed

    Brian Fox

    James Joyce Quarterly   56 ( 1-2 )   45 - 61   2019

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  • Literature on Trial in Britain : An Historical Survey of the Oscar Wilde and D. H. Lawrence Trials at the Old Bailey

    Brian Thomas Fox

    九大英文学   58   59 - 72   2016.3

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  • Joycean Legacies : Anthony Cronin and James Joyce Reviewed

    Fox Brian Thomas

    Journal of Irish Studies   31   41 - 53   2016

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    Language:English   Publisher:The Japan Branch of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures  

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Books

  • “O, he’ll remember all this when he grows up”: Joyce, Fenianism, and Memory

    Fox Brian Thomas( Role: Contributor)

    Eihosha  2019.3 

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  • James Joyce's America

    Fox Brian Thomas( Role: Sole author)

    Oxford University Press  2019.3 

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  • ‘“extreme consciousness”: D.H. Lawrence and America’s Challenge to European Modernism’

    Fox Brian Thomas( Role: Contributor)

    Cambridge Scholars Publishing  2015.7 

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Presentations

  • Writing and the Aftermath in John McGahern’s The Leavetaking

    Brian Fox

    IASIL 2024 Tokyo Japan: Aftermaths  2024.8.6 

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  • ‘atrocious labour’: John McGahern and the Creative Process in ‘Bank Holiday’

    Brian Fox

    IASIL Japan 37th International Conference Revolutions/Resolutions  2021.10.9 

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  • Generic Images: Francis Galton and Blackface Minstrelsy in ‘Circe’ and its Draft Manuscripts

    Brian Fox

    Omniscientific Joyce: The 27th International James Joyce Symposium  2021.6.16 

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  • ‘like a plague of locusts’: Americanisation and Post-War Irish Literature, 1945-1973

    Brian Thomas Fox

    93rd Annual General Meeting of the English Literary Society of Japan  2021.5.22 

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  • ‘Emigration and America in the Short Stories of John McGahern’

    Fox, Brian Thomas

    2019.10.26 

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  • Amnesia and Anamnesis: Joyce, Fenianism, and the ‘language of memory’ International conference

    Fox Brian Thomas

    日本英文学会中国四国支部第71回大会  2018.10.27 

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  • ‘The Bohee Brothers in Ulysses: Joyce, Race, and Blackface Minstrelsy’ International conference

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    日本英文学会中国四国支部第70回大会  2017.10.28 

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  • ‘Remembering Kevin Egan: Joyce and the Sesquicentennial of the 1867 Fenian Rising’ International conference

    Fox Brian Thomas

    日本ジェイムズ・ジョイス協会 第 29 回研究大会  2017.6.10 

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  • Chairperson Invited International conference

    Fox Brian Thomas

    国際アイルランド文学協会日本支部年次大会  2016.10.15 

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  • ‘Fighting Irish: The Recirculation of Irish-American Radical Nationalism in Finnegans Wake’ International conference

    Fox Brian Thomas

    Anniversary Joyce: the XXV International James Joyce Symposium  2016.6.13 

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  • ‘Joyce, the War of Independence, and the Military Archives’ International conference

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    日本ジェイムズ・ジョイス協会 第 27 回研究大会  2015.6.20 

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  • ‘Joyce and the American Short Story in the Age of Roosevelt, 1901-09’ International conference

    Fox Brian Thomas

    100 Dubliners  2014.10.31 

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  • ‘Yawn's “bamboozelem mincethrill voice”: Blackface Minstrelsy in III.3’ International conference

    Fox Brian Thomas

    A long the krommerun: the XXIV International James Joyce Symposium  2014.6.20 

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  • 'Irish realist': Anthony Cronin’s 'Beckett man' and the 'non-novel' in Ireland’ International conference

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    Samuel Beckett and the ‘State’ of Ireland III  2013.8.3 

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  • ‘Literature on Trial: Wilde, Lawrence and the Old Bailey’ International conference

    Fox Brian Thomas

    Literary London 2013: Representations of London in Literature, An Interdisciplinary Conference  2013.7.18 

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  • '"extreme consciousness": D.H. Lawrence and America’s Challenge to European Modernism’ International conference

    Fox Brian Thomas

    Maverick Voices and Modernity, 1890–1939  2013.7.5 

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  • ‘“From Queenstown to New York”: Emigration in Joyce’s Writings International conference

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    Joyce, Dublin & Environs, XXIII International James Joyce Symposium  2012.6.14 

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Awards

  • KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research

    2019.4   Japan Society for the Promotion of Science   Representations of America in Modern Irish Literature

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  • Dickens Universe Scholarship

    2013.8   University of California, Santa Cruz  

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  • James Joyce Research Centre Colloquium Scholarship

    2011.4   University College Dublin  

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  • James Joyce Summer School Scholarship

    2009.6   University of Trieste  

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  • Full College Research Scholarship

    2008.10   University of London, Royal Holloway  

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  • Entrance Exhibition Award

    1999.9   University of Dublin, Trinity College  

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Class subject in charge

  • Introduction to Irish Literature (2023academic year) Third semester  - 火5~6

  • Introductory Seminar in Humanities (2023academic year) Third semester  - 水1~2

  • Introduction to English Literature (2023academic year) 1st and 2nd semester  - 火7~8

  • Lecture on English Literature (2023academic year) 3rd and 4th semester  - 水3~4

  • Basic Seminar 1(Division of International Society) (2023academic year) Prophase  - その他

  • Basic Seminar 2(Division of International Society) (2023academic year) Prophase  - その他

  • Seminar in English Literature (2023academic year) 1st and 2nd semester  - 月5~6

  • Seminar in English Literature (2023academic year) 3rd and 4th semester  - 月5~6

  • Special Seminar 1(Division of International Societ) (2023academic year) Late  - その他

  • Special Seminar 2(Division of International Society) (2023academic year) Late  - その他

  • Seminar in Modern and Contemporary British/Irish Literature 1 (2023academic year) Late  - 金2

  • Modern and Contemporary British/Irish Literature 1 (2023academic year) Prophase  - 金2

  • Communication in English 1 (2023academic year) 3rd and 4th semester  - 金3~4

  • Research Seminar in English Language and Culture (2023academic year) 1st and 2nd semester  - 木5~6

  • Research Seminar in English Language and Culture (2023academic year) 3rd and 4th semester  - 金5~6

  • Introductory Seminar in Humanities (2022academic year) Third semester  - 水1~2

  • Introduction to English Literature (2022academic year) 1st and 2nd semester  - 火7~8

  • Lecture on English Literature (2022academic year) 3rd and 4th semester  - 水3~4

  • Seminar in English Literature (2022academic year) 1st and 2nd semester  - 月5~6

  • Seminar in English Literature (2022academic year) 3rd and 4th semester  - 月5~6

  • Seminar on Modern and Contemporary British/Irish Literature 2 (2022academic year) Late  - 金2

  • Modern and Contemporary British/Irish Literature 2 (2022academic year) Prophase  - 金2

  • Time and Memory in Modern British and Irish Literature (1890-1940) (2022academic year) Third semester  - 火5~6

  • Time and Memory in Modern British and Irish Literature (1890-1940) (2022academic year) Fourth semester  - 火5~6

  • Communication in English 2 (2022academic year) 3rd and 4th semester  - 金3~4

  • Writing Practice in English (2022academic year) 3rd and 4th semester  - 金1~2

  • Reseach Seminar in English Language and Culture (2022academic year) 1st and 2nd semester  - 木5~6

  • Reseach Seminar in English Language and Culture (2022academic year) 3rd and 4th semester  - 金5~6

  • British and Irish Detective Fiction (2021academic year) Fourth semester  - 火5~6

  • Introductory Seminar in Humanities (2021academic year) Fourth semester  - 水1

  • Introduction to English Literature (2021academic year) 1st and 2nd semester  - 火5~6

  • Lecture on English Literature (2021academic year) 3rd and 4th semester  - 水3~4

  • Seminar in English Literature (2021academic year) 1st and 2nd semester  - 月5~6

  • Seminar in English Literature (2021academic year) 3rd and 4th semester  - 月5~6

  • Seminar in Modern and Contemporary British/Irish Literature 1 (2021academic year) Late  - 金2

  • Modern and Contemporary British/Irish Literature 1 (2021academic year) Prophase  - 金2

  • Reseach Seminar in English Language and Culture (2021academic year) 1st and 2nd semester  - 木5~6

  • Reseach Seminar in English Language and Culture (2021academic year) 3rd and 4th semester  - 金5~6

  • Seminar in Japanology 1 (2021academic year) Year-round  - 金1

  • Introductory Seminar in Humanities (2020academic year) Third semester  - 水2

  • Introduction to English Literature b (2020academic year) Second semester  - 火5,火6

  • Lecture on English Literature a (2020academic year) 1st semester  - 水3,水4

  • Lecture on English Literature a (2020academic year) Third semester  - 水3,水4

  • Lecture on English Literature b (2020academic year) Second semester  - 水3,水4

  • Lecture on English Literature b (2020academic year) Fourth semester  - 水3,水4

  • Seminar in English Literature a (2020academic year) 1st semester  - 月5,月6

  • Seminar in English Literature a (2020academic year) Third semester  - 月5,月6

  • Seminar in English Literature b (2020academic year) Second semester  - 月5,月6

  • Seminar in English Literature b (2020academic year) Fourth semester  - 月5,月6

  • Special Seminar 1(Division of International Societ) (2020academic year) Prophase  - その他

  • Special Seminar 2(Division of International Society) (2020academic year) Prophase  - その他

  • Seminar on Modern and Contemporary British/Irish Literature 2 (2020academic year) Late  - 金2

  • Modern and Contemporary British/Irish Literature 2 (2020academic year) Prophase  - 金2

  • Seminar on English Literature and Culture (2020academic year) 3rd and 4th semester  - 月5,月6

  • Topics on English Literature and Culture (2020academic year) 1st and 2nd semester  - 水3,水4

  • Introduction to Transatlantic Literature (2020academic year) Third semester  - 火5,火6

  • Introduction to Transatlantic Literature (2020academic year) Fourth semester  - 火5,火6

  • Communication in English 1a (2020academic year) Third semester  - 木3,木4

  • Communication in English 1b (2020academic year) Fourth semester  - 木3,木4

  • Research in Literature and Culture (2020academic year) 3rd and 4th semester  - 金5,金6

  • Reseach Seminar in English Language and Culture (2020academic year) 1st semester  - 木5,木6

  • Reseach Seminar in English Language and Culture (2020academic year) Fourth semester  - 金5,金6

  • Reseach Seminar in English Language and Culture (2020academic year) Third semester  - 金5,金6

  • Reseach Seminar in English Language and Culture (2020academic year) Second semester  - 木5,木6

  • Japanology 4 (2020academic year) Late  - 金1

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