Dr Wim Van Mierlo

Contact details

Name:

Dr Wim Van Mierlo

Qualifications:

University of Antwerp (BA, MA) and University of Miami (PhD, 1997)

Position:

Lecturer in Textual Scholarship and English Literature

Institute:

Institute of English Studies

Location:

The Institute of English Studies School of Advanced Study University of London Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU

Phone:

020 7862 8675

Email address:

wim.van-mierlo@sas.ac.uk

Website:

http://ies.sas.ac.uk/about/Staff/wimvanmierlo.htm

Research Summary and Profile

Research interests:

English Literature, History of the book, Irish Studies, Manuscript studies, Modernism, Romanticism

Regions:

Europe, Ireland, North America

Summary of research interests and expertise:

I am Lecturer in Textual Scholarship and English Literature and course tutor on the MA in the History of the Book at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study. I am also the Editor of Variants: the Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship. My research interests include textual editing, historical bibliography and book history, modern literary manuscripts, reception history, literary history and canon formation, the study of marginalia, reading notes and writers' libraries; migration and Irish literature, historical representations in twentieth-century fiction in English, and literature and photography.

I have completed an edition of the manuscripts of W.B. Yeats's Where There Is Nothing and The Unicorn from the Stars for the Cornell Yeats Series (Cornell University Press, 2012). Currently I am preparing a scholarly edition of The Arrow of Gold for the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad (co-edited with Robert Hampson). I am also working on a book project, with the working title The Archaelogy of the Poem, studying the composition processes and working methods of a number of poets from the nineteenth (Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Rossetti, Swinburne) and twentieth (Yeats, Owen, Eliot, Plath, Hughes) centuries. And I am compiling a descriptive bibliography of the works of T. Sturge Moore.

Together with Ronald Schuchard (Emory University), I direct the annual T.S. Eliot International Summer School. I also convene the Textual Scholarship Seminar and co-convene the University of London Finnegans Wake Research Seminar.

I maintain two blogs: MSS -- Modern Manuscript Studies at http://modernmanuscripts.blogspot.com/ and a general blog on http://dandelionnetwork.org/profile/WimVanMierlo.

You can also find me on http://twitter.com/wvmierlo and http://sas.academia.edu/WimVanMierlo.

Languages:

	Spoken	Written
German	Intermediate	-
French	Intermediate	-
Other	Fluent	Fluent
Other:	Dutch

Publication Details

Related publications/articles:

Date	Details
01-Jan-2013	Reflections on Textual Editing in the Time of the History of the Book Articles Variants: The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship 10 (2013): 133-161.
01-Jan-2012	A Biblioteca Particular de Fernando Pessoa/Fernando Pessoa's Private Library (2010). Edição de Jéronimo Pizarro, Patricio Ferrari e Antonio Cardiello. Lisboa: D. Quixote Review Pessoa Plural: Revista de Estudas Pessoanes/A Journal of Fernando Pessoa Studies 2 (Fall 2012): http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Portuguese_Brazilian_Studies/ejph/pessoaplural/index.html
01-Jan-2012	W.B. Yeats, Where There is Nothing and the Unicorn from the Stars: Manuscript Materials Edited Book Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.  (The Introduction to this edition is available from SAS-Space)
01-Jan-2012	“For polemypolity’s sake”: Editing Finnegans Wake — A Consideration and Review “For polemypolity’s sake”: Editing Finnegans Wake — A Consideration and Review. Review of Finnegans Wake, ed. Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon, Genetic Joyce Studies, 12 (Spring 2012)<http://www.geneticjoycestudies.org/>
01-Jan-2011	Editing the Wake Review Review of Finnegans Wake, ed. Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon, James Joyce Literary Supplement, 25.2 (Fall 2011): 6-9.
01-Jan-2011	Review of Our Secret Discipline, by Helen Vendler. Review Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen163.1 (2011): 205-207.
01-Jan-2010	“‘I have met you too late’: James Joyce, W. B. Yeats, and the Making of Chamber Music” Articles Writing Modern Ireland, ed. by Catherine Paul, special issue of South Carolina Review 43.1(2010), 50-73.
01-Jan-2008	“James Joyce: Author Timeline” Research aids The Literary Enccylopedia, The Literary Dictionary Company, Autumn 2008
01-Jan-2007	“James Joyce and Caradoc Evans” Articles Genetic Joyce Studies 7 (Spring 2007)
01-Jan-2007	Textual Scholarship and the Material Book A special issue of Variants: The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship 6 (2007).
01-Jan-2007	'The Subject Notebook: A Nexus in the Composition History of Ulysses -A Preliminary Analysis' Articles Genetic Joyce Studies 7 (Spring 2007)
01-Jan-2006	'The Greater Ireland beyond the Sea: James Joyce, Exile, and Irish Emigration' Chapters Joyce, Ireland, Britain. Eds. Andrew Gibson and Len Platt. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006
01-Jan-2006	'Stemmatics, Genetics, and the Genealogy of James Joyce's Later Works' Chapters The Evolution of Texts: Confronting Stemmatological and Genetical Methods. Eds. Caroline Macé, Philippe Baret, Andrea Bozzi et al. Pisa, Roma: Institute Editoriali e Poligrafica Internazionale, 2006.
01-Jan-2006	"Ulysses" Research aids The Literary Encyclopedia , The Literary Dictionary Company, 18 February 2006.
01-Jan-2006	"Dubliners" Research aids The Literary Encyclopedia. The Literary Dictionary Company, 10 April 2006.
01-Jan-2005	"Fred D'Aguiar" Research aids Post-War Literatures in English: A Lexicon of Contemporary Authors, Groningen: Martinus Nijhoff, September 2005.
01-Jan-2004	"Samuel Beckett", "Seamus Heaney", "James Joyce" Research aids Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Twentieth Century, 1914-2000, ed. John Powell, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2004.
01-Jan-2004	Reading Notes (ed.) Edited Book Variants: Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship 2/3
01-Jan-2004	The Reception of James Joyce in Europe (eds.) Edited Book London: Continuum, 2004.
01-Jan-2004	'Reading W.B. Yeats: The Marginalia of T. Sturge Moore' Articles Reading Notes, eds. Dirk Van Hulle and Wim Van Mierlo, Special issue of Variants: Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship 2/3 (2004).
01-Jan-2003	'Pynchon, Postmodernism and Quantification: An Empirical Content Analysis of Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow' Articles Language and Literature 12 (February 2003): 27-41 [Co-authors: Luc Herman, Robert Hogenraad].
01-Jan-2002	'Reading Joyce in and out of the Archive' Articles Joyce Studies Annual 2002. Ed. Thomas F. Staley. Austin: University of Austin Press, 2002.
01-Jan-2002	"Neutral Auxiliaries and Universal Idioms: Otto Jespersen in 'Work in Progress'" Articles James Joyce: The Study of Languages, ed. Dirk Van Hulle, New Comparative Poetics 6, Brussels: PEI/Peter Lang, 2002, 55-70. [Co-author: Erika Rosiers].
01-Jan-2002	'Catholicism, Nationalism, and Exile: Sheed and Ward's Irish Way in VI.B.34' Articles Genetic Joyce Studies 2 (Spring 2002), On-line [Co-author: Ingeborg Landuyt]
01-Jan-2001	'Spatial Memory in David Bradley's Chaneysville Incident and Fred D'Aguiar's Dear Future: New Literatures, History, and Literary History' Articles Convergences and Interferences: Newness in Intercultural Practices, eds. Kathleen Gyssels, Isabel Hoving and Maggie Bowers, Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race 8, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001.
01-Jan-2001	"Flann O'Brien" Research aids Post-War Literatures in English: A Lexicon of Contemporary Authors, Groningen: Martinus Nijhoff, [June] 2001, 1-20
01-Jan-2000	"Tropologie en Geschiedenis in het Werk van de Franse Fotograaf Nadar" Articles Obscuur 6.18 (December 2000): 28-37.
01-Jan-1999	'Finnegans Wake and the Question of Histry!? Articles Genitricksling Joyce, eds. Sam Slote and Wim Van Mierlo, European Joyce Studies 9, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999, 43-64.
01-Jan-1999	Genitricksling Joyce (ed.) Articles European Joyce Studies 9. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999
01-Jan-1998	'Indexing the Buffalo Notebooks: Genetic Criticism and the Construction of Evidence' Articles Writing Its Own Wrunes For Ever: Essays in Joycean Genetics, eds. Daniel Ferrer and Claude Jacquet, Tusson, France: Du Lérot.
01-Jan-1997	'The Freudful Couchmare Revisited: Contextualizing Joyce and the New Psychology' Articles Joyce Studies Annual 1997, ed. Thomas F. Staley, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.
01-Jan-1994	'Traffic in Transit: Some Spatio-Temporal Elements in Finnegans Wake' Articles "Finnegans Wake": Teems of Times, ed. Andrew Treip. European Joyce Studies 4. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994. 107-17.
01-Jan-1993	'Paul van Ostaijens 'Verkeerde' Wereld: Een Vlaamse Vorm van Sade' Articles Er Waart een Spook door 't Huis: 9 Opstellen over Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Ed. Kris Humbeeck, Restant 21.1 (1993): 97-133.
01-Jan-1992	"St. Martin of Tours" Articles A Finnegans Wake Circular 7 (1991-92): 29-44.

Additional Publications

Publications available on SAS-space

Research Projects & Supervisions

Current PhD topics supervised:

Dates	Details
From: 03-Oct-2011 Until:	Literature as History: Finding Fiction’s Place in the History of the American Midwest by Corntey Napurski Co-supervised with Professor Iwan Morgan (ISA)
From: 01-Oct-2012 Until:	The Perception of British Literature in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) by Volker Jansen Co-supervised by Patrick Major, Professor of Modern History at the University of Reading

Available for doctoral supervision: Yes

Professional Affiliations

Professional affiliations:

Name	Activity
European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS)
International James Joyce Foundation	bieannial conference; newsletter; website
Group for Literary Manuscripts and Archives (GLAM)	bi-annual meeting; website
T.S. Eliot Society	annual meeting; newsletter; website
Association for Archives and Manuscripts in Research Collections (AMARC)	annual meeting; newsletter; grants
Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes (ITEM)	Seminars, Publications

Collaborations:

Name	Type	Activity	Start date	End date
The Arrow of Gold - a scholarly edition	Research	Commissioned scholarly edition for the Cambridge Conrad Edition, co-edited with Robert Hampson (RHUL)	01-Nov-2011

Relevant Events

Related events:

Date	Details
01-Jan-2012	The Making of the Waste Land Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Seminar, Faculty of English, University of Oxford, 25 January 2012
01-Jan-2012	Reflections on Textual Editing in the Time of the History of the Book Eighth Annual Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, in association with the Arbeitsgemeinschaft fuer Germanistische Edition on Inter-National and Inter-Disciplinary Aspects of Scholarly Editing, University of Bern, 15-18 February 2012.
01-Jan-2012	Unlocking the Literary Heritage: Digital Tools for Analyzing and Interpreting Manuscripts Words on the Page, and the Meanings Beyond: The Innovative Interpretation of Manuscripts, 26-27 April 2012, The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere
01-Jan-2012	Unlocking the Literary Heritage: Digital Tools for Analyzing and Interpreting Manuscripts "Unlocking the Literary Heritage: Digital Tools for Analyzing and Interpreting Manuscripts". Paper presented at Words on the Page, and the Meanings Beyond: The Innovative Interpretation of Manuscripts, 26-27 April, 2012, Jerwood Centre, The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere
01-Jan-2012	Transcribing and Editing Documents: Palaeography after 1700 Research training event at the London Palaeography Summer School, 22 June 2012, Institute of English Studies
01-Jan-2012	T.S. Eliot International Summer School Executive director of the T.S. Eliot International Summer School, 7-15 July 2012, Institute of English Studies
01-Jan-2012	The Making of the Waste Land Research Training seminar for the T.S. Eliot International Summer School, 7-15 July 2012, Institute of English Studies
01-Jan-2012	“‘These Fragments I Have Shored against my Ruins’: Another Look at the Manuscripts and Typescripts of The Waste Land” Lecture delivered at the T.S. Eliot International Summer School, 9 July 2012, Institute of English Studies
01-Jan-2012	"What do users of literary archives want, and what obstacles do they perceive exist" Presentation at the Diasporic Archives network, 7-8 June 2012, University of Reading.
01-Jan-2012	How Eclectic Can You Be? The Cambridge Conrad Edition and Current Textual Theory St. Mary’s Conrad Colloquia on Textual Studies: Colloquium 3, 5 October 2012, St. Mary's University College, Twickenham (London)
01-Jan-2012	Tracking Creativity in the Archive: Understanding Literary Manuscripts Archives and Texts Seminar, University of Reading, 6 November 2012
01-Jan-2011	Eliot/Pound—Collaborators: Influence and Confluence in The Waste Land Paper given at 32nd Annual Meeting of the T. S. Eliot Society, Paris Institut du Monde Anglophone, Université Paris III Sorbonne nouvelle, 18–22 July 2011
01-Jan-2011	How to Work with Modern Manuscripts in a Digital Environment — Some Desiderata Paper given at ‘Digital Resources for Palaeography’ Symposium, Kings College London, 5 September 2011
01-Jan-2011	The Future Perfect of the Book One-day colloquium, with support from the Book History Research Network, co-organized with Cynthia Johnston, 25 November 2011.
01-Jan-2011	“The Archaeology of the Poem” Paper given as part of the Dean's Seminar, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
01-Jan-2011	“was it for this”: Unlocking Creativity in the Early Manuscripts of The Prelude Innovative Interpretation of Manuscripts conference, The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere.
01-Jan-2011	''I sing whatever is well made': a workshop on W B Yeat's Method of Composition' Seminar given at King's College London Poetry Reading Group
01-Jan-2011	"T. Sturge Moore: Man of Letters" Lecture, at SHeLF: Friends of the Senate House Library, University of London.
01-Jan-2011	Modern Literary Manuscripts Research Training given at London Rare Books School, IES, University of London.
01-Jan-2011	Pound-ing Eliot: Re-assessing The Waste Land Typescripts 24th Ezra Pound International Conference: Erza Pound and London, IES
01-Jan-2011	T. Sturge Moore: Man of Letters “T. Sturge Moore: Man of Letters”, Lecture for SHelF: Friends of the Senate House Library, 24 May 2011, University of London.
01-Jan-2011	T.S. Eliot International Summer School Executive director of the 3rd annual T.S. Eliot International Summer School was held 9-16 July 2011. Led a seminar on The Making of the Waste Land.
01-Jan-2010	Walter de la Mare and T. Sturge Moore: Literary Champions (w/ Karen Attar) Joint Curator (with Karen Attar) of Exhibition at Senate House Library, University of London.
01-Jan-2010	“The Archaeology of the Poem” Reclamation and Representation: The Boundaries of the Literary Archive conference at University of Exeter
01-Jan-2010	"The T.Sturge Moore Collections at Senate House Library" Lecture given at Senate House Library, University of London.
01-Jan-2010	"What Texts Are Too Difficult to Edit? A Case Study of Finnegans Wake" Texts Worth Editing: 7th Annual Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, Pisa.
01-Jan-2010	Palaeography and Post-Palaeography: Manuscripts from the 1st to the 21st Century Joint Conference Organizer. Conference organized under the auspices of AMARC (w/ Michelle Brown).
01-Jan-2004	'"To Read the Same Book Twice is the Beginning of Wisdom": T. Sturge Moore's Annotated Copies of W. B. Yeats' '"To Read the Same Book Twice is the Beginning of Wisdom": T. Sturge Moore's Annotated Copies of W. B. Yeats', Innovations in Book History, The White Rose Book History Seminar, University of Leeds, 21 January 2004
01-Jan-2004	"Exile or Emigrant? James Joyce and the Irish Diaspora" "Exile or Emigrant? James Joyce and the Irish Diaspora", Irish Studies Seminar, University of London, 19 May 2004.
01-Jan-2004	"Jews, Jesus, Weininger, and Words: New NOtes for Ulysses" "Jews, Jesus, Weininger, and Words: New NOtes for Ulysses", Bloomsday 100, 19th International James Joyce Symposium, Dublin, 12-19 June 2004.
01-Jan-2004	"Jews, Jesus, Weininger, and Words: New Notes for Ulysses" "Jews, Jesus, Weininger, and Words: New NOtes for Ulysses", Bloomsday 100, 19th International James Joyce Symposium, Dublin, 12-19 June 2004.
01-Jan-2004	"Biographical Iconographies in Richard Hampton's Carrington" "Biographical Iconographies in Richard Hampton's Carrington", Back to Bloomsbury, 14th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, University of London, 23-26 June 2004.
01-Jan-2004	"Endogenetic and Exogenetic Criticism: James Joyce's Notes for Ulysses and Finnegans Wake" "Endogenetic and Exogenetic Criticism: James Joyce's Notes for Ulysses and Finnegans Wake", Textual Critics and Genetics: Confronting Methods, Universite Catholique de Louvain-la-neuve, 1-2 September 2004.
01-Jan-2003	"Postexilic Joyce" "Postexilic Joyce", The James Joyce Annual Summer School 2003, University College Dublin
01-Jan-2003	"In the Margins: W B Yeats, T. Sturge Moore, and the Patterns of Reading" "In the Margins: W B Yeats, T. Sturge Moore, and the Patterns of Reading". Dean's Seminar, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 12 November 2003
01-Jan-2003	"James Joyce and the Irish Diaspora", Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education Conference (BAAHE), "James Joyce and the Irish Diaspora", Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education Conference (BAAHE), University of Ghent, 22 November 2003

Other editing/publishing activities:

Date	Details
2012	Variants: the Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship Variants, the peer-reviewed journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarhip, is published annually. The first number was published in 2002 by Brepols. From the second volume onwards, a double issue (2/3) on Reading Notes, the journal was published in association with Rodopi.

Knowledge transfer activities:

Details
MSS: Modern Manuscript Studies A blogspot devoted to raising awareness about the relevance of studying modern manuscripts and literary drafts to literary history and the history of the book.
Writers and their Libraries A blog accompanying the Writers and their Libraries conference at the Institute of English Studies, 15-16 March 2013.

Consultancy & Media

Available for consultancy:

Yes

Media experience:

Yes