Research Interests
Gender/Sexuality Studies, Irish Studies, Modern British, Theory & Criticism, Women's Literature
Education
Ph.D., Princeton University; M.A., Princeton University; B.A., University of Texas at Austin
Courses Taught
Modernist literature; Irish literature; fairy tales and gender formation; Beckett; Eliot; Homer; Joyce; Wilde; Woolf; Yeats; literary authority and the Holocaust
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Gender and Women's Studies
Highlighted Publications
Mahaffey, V. (1988). Reauthorizing Joyce. Cambridge University Press.
Mahaffey, V. (1998). States of Desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish Experiment. Oxford University Press.
Mahaffey, V. (2007). Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions. Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470775721
Recent Publications
Ellmann, M., White, S., & Mahaffey, V. (2021). The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism. (Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities). Edinburgh University Press.
Mahaffey, V. (2021). Irish Christian Comedy: Heresy or Reform? In M. Ellmann, S. White, & V. Mahaffey (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism (Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities). Edinburgh University Press.
Mahaffey, V., & Truran, W. J. (2020). Feeling Ulysses: An Address to the Cyclopean Reader. In P. Kitcher (Ed.), Joyce's Ulysses: Philosophical Perspectives (pp. 100-131). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190842260.003.0004
Mahaffey, V. (2017). Darkening Freedom: Yeats, Joyce, Beckett. In V. Sherry (Ed.), The Cambridge History of Modernism (pp. 646-662). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139540902.040
Mahaffey, V. (2015). “Ricorso”: The Flaming Door of IV. In K. J. Devlin, & C. Smedley (Eds.), Joyce's Allmaziful Plurabilities: Polyvocal Explorations of Finnegans Wake (pp. 290-306). (The Florida James Joyce Series). University Press of Florida. https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813061542.003.0018