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Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English emeritus, delivered a paper titled “Thinking about Molly Bloom – and Marilyn Monroe and Mrs. Robinson and Mrs. Robinson” at a conference held Feb. 26-27 at the University of Florida (UF).

“Joyce’s Drinking,” an essay by Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English Emeritus, was republished in a special anniversary issue of the James Joyce Quarterly as one of the 21 most important essays in the journal over the past 50 years.

Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English Literature emeritus, published a letter in the April 4 issue of TLS, The Times Literary Supplement (London). The letter was Briggs’ second published in TLS in seven months.

Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English, Emeritus, delivered a lecture to an audience of more than 200 people on Feb. 11 at the Bellas Artes Cultural Center in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English emeritus, published a letter to the editor, “Joyce and drink,” in the Sept. 13 issue of TLS, The Times Literary Supplement (London).

Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English Literature emeritus, delivered a paper, "Mr., Mrs., Miss, Surnames, Given Names, and Pronouns in Joyce's The Dead," at the XXIII North American James Joyce Conference in Charleston, S.C., in June.

Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English emeritus, published "Joyce's Drinking" in the Summer 2011 issue of the James Joyce Quarterly. Because the journal is behind in its schedule, the issue actually appeared in April 2013.

Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English Literature emeritus Austin Briggs presented a paper titled “Joyce and Defoe” on Feb. 1 at the James Joyce Birthday Conference, “Miami J’yce.”

Austin Briggs, Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English Literature Emeritus, published a review of Gordon Bowker’s biography James Joyce. “A New Life of Joyce” appeared in the Fall 2011 James Joyce Literary Supplement.

Austin Briggs, Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English, Emeritus, took an active role in the North American James Joyce Conference held in June at Caltech and the Huntington Library in Pasadena, Calif.