William H. Quillian | |
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Occupation | Professor |
Nationality | American |
Genre | 19th & 20th century British literature History of criticism and critical theory |
Subject | James Joyce T. S. Eliot |
Notable works | Hamlet and the New Poetic: James Joyce and T. S. Eliot |
William Howell Quillian is an American literary critic and James Joyce scholar.[1][2] He is Professor Emeritus of English at Mount Holyoke College.
Quillian graduated with an A.B. in English from Princeton University in 1965 after completing a senior thesis titled "The Name of Adam: A Study of Henry Miller."[3] He then received a B.A. and M.A. from Cambridge University in 1973 and returned to Princeton for graduate studies. He received a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1975 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "Prince Hamlet in the age of modernism: James Joyce and T.S. Eliot."[4][5]
He has also been involved with Michael Groden's group in the envisioning and development of Joyce's Ulysses as hypertext and hypermedia as well as other aspects of the digital humanities.[7][8]