A. Nicholas Fargnoli is Professor of Theology and English at Molloy College in Rockville Centre, New York. He is vice president of the James Joyce Society and founder of the Finnegans Wake Society of New York that meets regularly at the historic Gotham Book Mart in New York City. Michael Patrick Gillespie is Professor of English at Marquette University. He is the author of Reading the Book Himself: Narrative Strategies in the Works of James Joyce (1989).