Introducing James Joyce

Location Information

Facilities Available: Housing, food, stipend, library, parking:

Participants will receive a stipend of $4,200. The first installment, between a third and half of the total, will be distributed on arrival, the remainder at about the mid-point of the course.

Campus housing will be available at $30 per day. Rooms are air-conditioned and reported to be clean and comfortable. A meal plan, at $ 27.25 for three meals per day, will also be available. Participants who bring cars - encouraged - will be able to reach any number of good restaurants in the area. Campus parking is free and quite convenient: you can always or almost always expect to find a space near your room. Visiting scholars will have full access to the college library, including its computer facilities.

The Area:
Connecticut College is a small liberal-arts college located on 424 rural acres at the edge of New London, Connecticut. It is a very attractive place - beautifully landscaped, with handsome buildings overlooking views of the Thames River and Long Island Sound. Facilities include an Olympic-sized pool, tennis, squash, and basketball courts, an arboretum, and a boathouse. Campus and area are eminently jogger-friendly. The whole region is, for good reason, a favorite summer vacation spot. Bordering the Atlantic, it has beaches and opportunities for fishing, boating, and ocean-going sailing trips within easy reach. Mystic, ten miles away, has Mystic Aquarium and Mystic Seaport. The two local casinos, Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun, are among the largest and glitziest in the world. Besides spectacle, both are known for their restaurants and shops, and the Mohegan Sun has an outstanding museum of Native American culture. There are open-air concerts and theatrical performances. Providence and New Haven are each about an hour's drive away along I-95, Boston and New York about two hours away. They can also all be reached easily from New London's Amtrak station. The Connecticut College library, to which all members of the seminar will be granted full privileges, is excellent, but for those who would like to try the resources of a world-class university library, access to Yale's, about forty miles away, will available to for twenty-five dollars a month.