Chris Wogan
@woganchris.bsky.social
Postgraduate Researcher and PhD candidate in Irish Literature (James Joyce) at the University of York.
This was the video I was looking for yesterday to post. I follow Joshua Wright on instagram because we are both passionate about saving old trees. This was an ancient forest valley that was recently logged on Vancouver Island. They cut down one of the largest Yellow Cedar tree in Canada. 😢
Meet a Tree : Tree of the Day : Holystone Woods Coquetdale Northumberland National park #trees #treephotography #woodland #supportourtrees #saveourwoodland #lovetrees #hugatree #meetatree
Free webinar from Brandeis University - Of Roots and Leaves: Reading Culture with Plants, Sep 14, 2026, 12-1:30pm ET. "...introduces a newly published cultural studies companion to plants that examines the role of the vegetal world in the construction of culture." www.brandeis.edu/cges/news-ev...
It's now extremely hard for Irish people to conceive what a wild tree even looks like, with mostly only domesticated, tamed versions remaining. This rainforest holly gives an idea. Rewilding is how we allow not only wild trees back, but the entire ecosystems of which they're meant to be a part.
Delighted to share that Yorkshire Modernisms, a special issue I co-edited with Lucy Cheseldine, is now out Open Access in Modernist Cultures: www.euppublishing.com/toc/mod/21/1 Massive thanks to our wonderful contributors and to the journal editors and reviewers @modernistudies.bsky.social.
Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - mod: Vol 21, No 1
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This week I was fortunate enough to visit the British Library to consult some of James Joyce's letters, and those from his family, to Harriet Shaw Weaver. I hope to be back soon!
Article from @worldresources.bsky.social The Latest Data Confirms: Forest Fires Are Getting Worse "New data shows that forest fires are getting worse, burning more than twice as much tree cover today as they did 20 years ago, largely due to climate change." www.wri.org/insights/glo...
The Latest Data Confirms: Forest Fires Are Getting Worse
New data shows that forest fires are getting worse, burning more than twice as much tree cover today as they did 20 years ago, largely due to climate change.
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'You is feeling like you was lost in the bush, boy? You says: It is a puling sample jungle of woods. You most shouts out: Bethicket me for a stump of a beech' (FW 112.3-5) #treesofzurich
Can a river or a forest possess legal rights? 🌊🌲 In the global fight against climate change, nature is often treated as a silent victim or a passive backdrop to human needs. But can nature have legal personhood? Find out more 👇 https://features.york.ac.uk/big-questions/can-nature-have-rights/
Lost in Joyce? Postgraduate researcher Chris Wogan of the University of York reveals how you can use trees as your map, including for his most difficult texts, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. Now on YouTube - James Joyce's Trees https://youtu.be/TXMz23ZIzsY
@woganchris.bsky.social is next, with his review of Frank Callanan’s ‘James Joyce: A Political Life’ (2026): modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/07/10/b...
Book Review: James Joyce: A Political Life
10 July 2026 Christopher Wogan, University of York Published by Princeton University Press, Frank Callanan’s James Joyce: A Political Life (2026) marks a new milestone in Joyce studies. Since Richa…
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We are delighted to announce that we will be hosting, in collaboration with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame University, and the WB Yeats Chair of Irish Studies at the University of Sao Paulo, the inaugural Seamus Deane Memorial Lecture Series in Irish Studies.
My recent talk to the York Festival of Ideas about trees and James Joyce is now available to watch here: youtu.be/TXMz23ZIzsY?...
James Joyces' Trees - Chris Wogan
YouTube video by York Ideas
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May you have a very happy Bloomsday where ever you are celebrating today. ❤️📖 #bloomsdayfestival #bloomsday In collaboration with The James Joyce Centre and supported by Fáilte Ireland and The Department of Culture, Communications and Sport.
Thrilled that my chapter "An Béal Bocht and the Ethics of the Modernist Laughing Apocalypse" has been made open-access, as has the whole collection "Ethical Crossroads in Literary Modernism", through JSTOR's "path to open" project! Available to read online here 🔗👉 www.jstor.org/content/oa_c...
Thanks so much to the great team at @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social for hosting my talk today on trees in James Joyce, and thanks to everyone who came and asked such interesting questions!
@woganchris.bsky.social reviews 'James Joyce, Rural Ireland and Modernity: Beyond the Pale' (2025) by Niall Ó Cuileagáin. Read more about this ‘unique conception of Joyce’s rural modernism’ here: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/b...
Book Review: James Joyce, Rural Ireland and Modernity: Beyond the Pale
29 May 2026 Christopher Wogan, University of York The ecological turn in Joyce Studies has intensified in recent years, with significant works focusing on the environmental and nonhuman from ecocri…
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Looking forward to attending this tomorrow!
Kate Nankervis (she/her)@womanofclouds.bsky.social · 4mo agoThis is tomorrow at 1pm! I’ll be speaking with @emily-whittingham.bsky.social about Romantic clouds and human/nonhuman relationships. It would be wonderful to gain feedback, insights, and further inspirations from people working in similar or adjacent areas ⛅️
Next, @woganchris.bsky.social 's review of John McCourt's 'Consuming Joyce: 100 Years of Ulysses in Ireland' (Bloomsbury, 2022), an insight into the shifting response to Joyce's epic modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com?p=6397
Book Review: Consuming Joyce: 100 Years of Ulysses in Ireland
6 March 2026 Christopher Wogan, University of York Published in the centennial anniversary year of Ulysses, John McCourt’s Consuming Joyce: 100 Years of Ulysses in Ireland (2022) is a compelling sy…
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"Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories", a 2024 essay collection I edited w/ Richard Barlow, is now available to pre-order in a much more affordable paperback edition from @edinburghup.bsky.social! (use code PAPER30 for a further 30%-off discount) edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-finnega...
Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories
Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories
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The Eighteenth-Century Ecologies Network (@e-cen.bsky.social) will be hosting their inaugural seminar online and in-person at Heslington Hall, Uni of York on 26th Feb at 5pm! Dr Jeremy Davies (Leeds) will present on 'Continuity and Change in Eighteenth-Century Environmental Culture’.
✨"Fizzing with ideas, 'Finnegans Wake: Human and Nonhuman Histories' offers a revitalizing contribution to Wake studies"✨ Grateful to @woganchris.bsky.social + @modernistudies.bsky.social for this attentive & generous review of our 2024 collection! modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/b...
Book Review: Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories
9th September 2025 Christopher Wogan, University of York Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories, ed. Richard Barlow and Paul Fagan (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) Published in 2024, the t…
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Wonderful time spent in May at the Zürich James Joyce Foundation :-)
