Bernard T. Joy
Bernard T. Joy is a writer, researcher, and educator living in Scotland. He earned his PhD in December 2021 from the University of Glasgow. His thesis explored philosophical notions of truth in the works of William Faulkner. He has taught in the secondary sector since 2012 and has also held teaching positions at several institutions of further education, including the University of Glasgow. His publications include two books of poetry, one solo collection of prose fiction, and several of his essays and book chapters explore aspects of American literature, the literature of the American South, African American literature, theories of modernity, literature and philosophy, and the visual phenomenologies of literary texts. Most notably he is published in the Faulkner Journal with an essay on Lucas Beauchamp, agonistic identity and the ethics of sympathy; in the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series volume Faulkner, Welty, and Wright: A Mississippi Confluence with an essay on Faulkner, Richard Wright, visibility and social death; and in the 2024 collection of essays Digressions in Deep Time: Ecocritical Approaches to Literature and the Arts. He is a frequent speaker at such conferences as Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, Faulkner Studies in the UK, and the growing network at the University of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens.
Interviews with Bernard T. Joy
The Best Novels about the History of the United States, recommended by Bernard T. Joy
An exploration of the history of the United States may require novels that are challenging to read but offer the reward of really making you think about a complex subject. Literary scholar Bernard T. Joy talks us through five novels that explore U.S. history, from colonial times to the end of the 20th century.
