Professor Margot Norris

Margot Norris, Chancellor's Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine prior to her retirement in 2011, specializes in early twentieth-century literature, with a particular focus on the work of James Joyce. She served as president of the International James Joyce Foundation from 2004 to 2008 and is the author of numerous publications on Joyce. Her books include The Decentered Universe of "Finnegans Wake" (1976), Joyce's Web: The Social Unraveling of...See more

Margot Norris, Chancellor's Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine prior to her retirement in 2011, specializes in early twentieth-century literature, with a particular focus on the work of James Joyce. She served as president of the International James Joyce Foundation from 2004 to 2008 and is the author of numerous publications on Joyce. Her books include The Decentered Universe of "Finnegans Wake" (1976), Joyce's Web: The Social Unraveling of Modernism (1992), and Virgin and Veteran Readings of "Ulysses" (2011). See less