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Professor Knowles will give a talk as the Carole and Gordon Segal Professor in Irish Literature:

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Sebastian Knowles is Professor of English at Ohio State University, where he has taught since 1987. He is the author of A Purgatorial Flame: Seven British Writers in the Second World War (1990) and The Dublin Helix: The Life of Language in Joyce's Ulysses (2001), which was awarded the Michael J. Durkan Prize in 2001. Professor Knowles has been the recipient of the Arts & Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award (2000), English Graduate Professor of the Year (2000), College of Humanities Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring (2003), Arts Professor of the Year, University of Antwerp (2005), and the English Undergraduate Professor of the Year (2007). He is currently President of the International James Joyce Foundation (2012-2018), and is the series editor of the Florida James Joyce Series.