Shantam Goyal
Visiting Assistant Professor
Shantam Goyal received his PhD in English from University at Buffalo in 2025. He studied James Joyce's Finnegans Wake for his dissertation with a focus on the role of sound and listening in its composition, reception, and adaptations. He has a broader interest in the reception and social role of "difficult" literature, with further research on Irish and global modernisms, contemporary Irish literature, and critical phenomenology. He has also taught, and published on, Indian cinema, music, poetry, writing studies, and visual art. His peer-reviewed articles have appeared in James Joyce Quarterly, Joyce Studies Annual, Modernist Cultures, Journal of Modern Literature, and Contemporary Music Review among other publications. In addition to academic work, Shantam has won awards for his short fiction, and has published poetry in Vayavya, ColdNoon, Mutiny!, and Trilobite. He has been translating Ulysses into Hindi for seven years, one-line-a-month, while trying to find a publisher for a middling novel.
Education
Ph.D. in English, University at BuffaloM.Phil in English, University of Delhi
M.A. in English, University of Delhi
B.A. (Hons.) English, University of Delhi
Research Interests
- Joyce Studies
- Modernism
- Sound Studies
- Indian Cinema
- Contemporary Irish Writing
Publications
“Listen Ulysses: Joyce and Sound,” Joyce Studies Annual (2023-24), pp. 88-105.
“Primetime Nation-Building: Notes on All India Radio’s Hawa Mahal,” Re-temporalizing the Cultural in India, edited by Ritwick Bhattacharjee and Srinjoyee Dutta. New Delhi: Bloomsbury, 2025, pp. 41-58.
“This Strange Enemy: Marianne Moore and the Rejection of Work in Progress,” James Joyce Quarterly 62, no.1 (Fall 2024), pp. 95-105.
“‘Earmarks of Design’: Finnegans Wake, Aurality, and Joyce’s Common Reader,” in Modernist Cultures 19, no. 2-3 (2024), pp. 236-261, .
“Difficult Women: Joyce, Burns, and the Radical Passivity of Listening,” in Contemporary Music Review (2024), 5036 words, .
“New Reading: Notes on a Critical Phenomenology of Reading with Finnegans Wake,” in Journal of Modern Literature 46, no. 3 (Spring 2023), pp. 117-129, .
“Sounds from Nowhere: Reading Around Raga-Jazz Style,” in Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association 9, no. 2 (Fall 2020), 5911 words, .
“Notes on Rhet/Comp, Ideology, and the Classroom in Delhi and Buffalo,” in Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry 7, no. 1 (2020), pp. 54-77, .
“Recorder of Dublin: Joyce’s F/X,” in Sounding Out! (2020), 1784 words, .