About

Patrick Hastings created this website in hopes of making Ulysses accessible and enjoyable to everyone who has ever wanted to read the novel but either didn’t know how to get started or got stuck along the way.

Patrick works as a curator in the Rare Book Division at the Library of Congress. Previously, he taught high school English and served as Department Chair at Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland.  A graduate of Washington & Lee University (2005) and Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English (2012), Patrick has studied, written about, taught, and conducted research into Joyce and Ulysses since 2003, when he lived and worked at Shakespeare and Company Bookstore on the Left Bank of Paris (the current iteration of the literary institution that first published Ulysses in 1922).  

The impetus for creating this website is Patrick's eagerness to share the wonder and wisdom of Ulysses with a wide variety of readers, including his students, his friends, and readers from around the world who discover this site and find it useful.  

The content of this website was significantly revised and enhanced for publication in 2022 as a book, The Guide to James Joyce’s Ulysses, available for purchase now.

Also, an Instagram account (@ulyssesguide) will post photos relevant to Joyce and Ulysses.

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