Cleo Hanaway-Oakley

Cleo Hanaway-Oakley is Senior Lecturer in Liberal Arts and English at the University of Bristol. She is also an elected trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation and an advisory editor for the James Joyce Quarterly. She specialises in the work of James Joyce, literary modernism and the arts, medical humanities, disability, sensing and the sensory, and notions of embodiment.

Her first monograph, James Joyce and the Phenomenology of Film, was published in 2017. She is currently working on her second monograph, James Joyce and Dynamic Vision.
Her writing on Joyce captures the attention of scholars as well as lay readers. She recently published a piece aimed at medical professionals: ‘The Iridescent Vision of James Joyce’, in The New Optometrist, 23 Sep 2024, and The Ophthalmologist, 21 Oct 2024. And her public-facing article, ‘Ulysses at 100: why Joyce was so obsessed with the perfect blue cover’, in The Conversation, 1 February 2022, inspired artist Alistair Noble to create a new artwork entitled ‘ULIXES: A meditation on blue’.