Vicki Mahaffey received her Ph.D. from Princeton, with a specialty in Modernism and modern Irish literature. The Joyce of Everyday Life, which won the Robert Rhodes prize for books on literature in 2025, was published by Bucknell University Press in 2024. She has also published Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007). States of Desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish Experiment was published by Oxford University Press in 1998; Reauthorizing Joyce was published in hardcover by Cambridge University Press and in paperback by Florida University Press. Her edited collections may be viewed under "Publications'": the most recent is her guest-edited volume of the James Joyce Quarterly: "Women's Issues," to which she also contributed an introduction and an article: "The Androgynous Mouth." She has received Ira Abrams Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Lindback Award for teaching as well as two smaller awards; she is a Guggenheim Fellow and has been an elected member of the Board of Trustees of the International James Joyce Foundation three times. She has also been the Carole and Gordon Segal Distinguished Visiting Professor of Irish Studies at Northwestern, and she has received additional fellowship support from the ACLS and the Whiting Foundation. Since retiring from Penn, Prof. Mahaffey has held the chair of Modern Literature at the University of York, England, and then as the Clayton and Thelma Kirkpatrick Chair of English and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois, where she is emerita.