Vincent Cheng
· Distinguished ProfessorUniversity of Utah · English
Active 1982–2025
Research topics
- Political Science
- Sociology
- Psychology
- Law
- Philosophy
- Social psychology
- Art
- Linguistics
- History
- Aesthetics
Selected publications
Between a Rock and a Hard Place:
Fordham University Press eBooks · 2025-01-14
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingRemembering Michael J. O’Shea (1955–2024)
James Joyce quarterly · 2025-01-01
article1st authorCorrespondingJames Joyce quarterly · 2024-09-01
article1st authorCorrespondingJames Joyce quarterly · 2023
1st authorCorresponding- Sociology
- Political Science
- History
ABSTRACT: This essay is a meditation on the contemporary migration and refugee crisis, the history of Irish emigration, and Joyce's awareness and treatment of such issues. It begins by discussing the official definitiions and political impacts of the terms "migrant" and "refugee," followed by an investigation of the risks and often tragic consequences of attempts to "migrate" to a better life (both nowadays and in the past). The second half of the essay explores how Joyce's texts treat such issues and their relationship to the politics and complexities of our contemporary moment—leading to an argument about the need for identificatory empathy or what I call "reverse parallax."
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Fordham University Press eBooks · 2023-12-31 · 1 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingNew directions in Irish and Irish American literature · 2018-01-01
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingThe Memory of the Past: National Memory and Commemoration
New directions in Irish and Irish American literature · 2018-01-01
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingSlavery, the South, and Ethical Remembrancing
New directions in Irish and Irish American literature · 2018-01-01
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingThe Will to Forget: Nation and Forgetting in Ulysses
New directions in Irish and Irish American literature · 2018-01-01
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingThe Nightmare of History and the Burden of the Past
New directions in Irish and Irish American literature · 2018-01-01
book-chapter1st authorCorresponding
Frequent coauthors
- 2 shared
Kevin Kiely
- 1 shared
Richard I. Dorsky
University of Utah
- 1 shared
Sandra Smith
- 1 shared
Dillon Johnston
Washington University in St. Louis
- 1 shared
Chuck Grissom
- 1 shared
Keith Keddington
- 1 shared
Randall G. Stewart
- 1 shared
Catherine Loreto
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