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Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English Literature emeritus, has been elected to a term on the board of trustees of the International James Joyce Foundation. Located at the Ohio State University, it was created in 1967 at the first international James Joyce Symposium in Dublin.

Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English Literature Emeritus, spoke on James Joyce at the Belles Artes in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, on Feb. 3. Attended by an audience of more than 200, the lecture was delivered on behalf of the scholarship program of PEN International.

At the request of the International James Joyce Foundation, Austin Briggs, Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English Literature, emeritus, organized and chaired a panel, "Joyce and Memory," at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association of America in San Francisco in December.

Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English emeritus, published a review of Joycean Murmoirs: Fritz Senn on James Joyce, Christine O'Neill (ed.), (Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2007) in the October, 2008, issue of James Joyce Broadsheet (University of Leeds, UK).

Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English emeritus, attended the XXI International James Joyce Conference held at the Universite Francois-Rabelais in Tours, France, June 15-20. In addition to co-moderating two reading sessions he delivered a paper, "Joyce's Nymph of the Yews and the Controversy over the Nude in Painting and Sculpture," on the panel "Joycean Erotics" that he organized and chaired. At the conference, the tustees of the International James Joyce Foundation nominated Briggs for membership on the board.

Austin Briggs, Tompkins Professor of English, Emeritus, and lecturer in Englsh, delivered "The Joys of Joyce: Reading Ulysses" at the Belles Artes, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico on January 30. The lecture, which was attended by more than 200 people, was sponsored by the San Miguel chapter of PEN International, an organization of 141 chapters in 101 countries that is dedicated to fighting for freedom of expression and to defending writers suffering from oppressive regimes around the world.