Weldon Thornton

Weldon Thornton's teaching interests include an Honors Great Books course that he has taught for more than thirty years, as well as undergraduate courses in modern British fiction and Anglo-Irish literature and in intellectual history, and graduate courses in Anglo-Irish literature and modern British fiction.

His research interests focus on Anglo-Irish literature, on the modern novel, and on D.H. Lawrence. His first book, Allusions in Ulysses: An Annotated List (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1968) is still in print. His J.M. Synge and the Western Mind appeared in 1979, and Joyce's Ulysses: the Larger Perspective (with Robert D. Newman) in 1987. More recently he has published D.H. Lawrence: A Study of the Short Fiction (1993), and The Antimodernism of Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1994). He has written essays on Joyce and Lawrence, as well as on William Faulkner, Walker Percy, W.B. Yeats, Patrick Kavanagh, and other modern writers. Currently he is completing Voice and Values in Joyce's Ulysses, and is rewriting a manuscript entitled The Roots of Modernism: A Study in Cultural Temperament.

For the past several years he has worked with the Chinese translator of Ulysses, Professor Jin Di, at whose invitation he delivered an address at a conference on Ulysses in China in July of 1996. He has held visiting professorships at Wake Forest University and at the University of British Columbia, and served for one semester as a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil (February-June, 1987).

Hire Date: 1961
Ph. D., University of Texas, 1961
M.A., Emory University, 1957
B.A., Mercer University, 1955
wthornto@email.unc.edu
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