Eileen A. Joy

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Dept. of English Language & Literature
2225 Peck Hall (Box 1431)
Edwardsville, IL 62026-1431
618.650.3971
ejoy@siue.edu
 (or: eileenajoy@gmail.com)

Figure 1. Holland House Library, London (September, 1940)

[Reverse Image: "The Tower of Babel" by Pieter Brugel, c. 1563]

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
(Simone Weil, 1909-1943)

OFFICE HOURS:

on sabbatical leave for Fall 2010 term

E. Joy's Curriculum Vitae

TEACHING

Summer 2010

Course Archives

Figure 2. Grozny City Center, Chechyna (March 1995)

Figure 3. Unmarked Kosovar Albanian Graves in Djakovica (1999)

Journal

Weblogs (Principal Author)

In The Middle

The International Society of Fools

Literature Compass

Facebook Essential

BABEL Working Group on Facebook

Favorite Websites

Arts and Letters Daily

The BABEL Working Group

Dante's Inferno Test

The Edge "To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves."

Figure 4. 25-year-old Kamajor Fighter, Sierre Leone (2000)

(written in nail polish on the butt of his gun: war is my food)

Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog

Human Rights Watch

Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination

Kismet at M.I.T.

Emmanuel Levinas Web Page

The Librynth

       Figure 5. Electronic Beowulf (f. 129r) & Last Supper detail (post-restoration)

The Long Now Foundation

McSweeney's

Figure 6. Personal Effects of Kosovar Victims, Meja (1999)

The Perseus Digital Library

The Rosetta Project

Sean Kernan's "The Secret Books"

Spanner Films

Peter Turnley's "The Unseen Gulf War"

Eddy van Wessel Photography

Thinking God: A Bilingual Simone Weil Reader

We Feel Fine & Universe (web-artworks by Jonthan Harris)

The Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate

Figure 7. Chechen Man at Samaski Mental Hospital (Grozny, 2002)

Figure 8. Gardens of Babur Shah, Kabul (2003)

Figure 9. Dead Chechen Woman Suicide Bomber

Figure 10. Boy Soldiers in Bunia, Congo (June 2003)

Figure 11. Russians checking list of victims of subway bombing (February 2004)

Figure 12. American soldiers in Najaf, Iraq cemetery tomb (August 2004)

Figure 13. Sudanese refugees fleeing Darfur (April 2004)

Figure 14. Girl, aged 9, burned in Gujarat massacre (India, 2002)

Figure 15. Uganda's "Night Commuters" (June 2005)

Paul Auster

Figure 16. Paul Auster in Central Park (my favorite contemporary author)

 


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