William H. Quillian

Professor of English on the Emma B. Kennedy Foundation

Specialization
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature; history of criticism and critical theory; twentieth-century British, American, and world fiction (in translation); science fiction; computers and literature

Since joining Mount Holyoke's English department in 1975, William Quillian has twice served as departmental chair. He regularly teaches courses in twentieth-century British literature, contemporary fiction in English, and literary criticism and theory, and has taught the first-year seminar Never Again ... A Single Story, an introduction to the experimental narratives and multiple "stories" of contemporary fiction. His research interests include cyberpunk science fiction, the American novelist Cormac McCarthy, and the English novelist and critic John Berger.

Quillian is currently collaborating with a number of Joyce scholars on a hypermedia edition of James Joyce's Ulysses. He is one of 18 editors from around the world who have committed to having this multimedia edition of the novel ready in time for the celebration of Bloom's Day, June 16, 2004, which will mark the one hundredth anniversary of the day on which the novel is set. Quillian is the author of Hamlet and the New Poetic: James Joyce and T. S. Eliot (UMI Research Press).

Publications

Hamlet & The New Poetic, 1983

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"Mount Holyoke Embraces Technology," Vista, summer 1998