Keri Walsh is Professor of English and Director of the Institute of Irish Studies at Fordham University in New York. She is currently at work on a history of the Paris bookstore Shakespeare and Company. She is the editor of The Letters of Sylvia Beach (Columbia UP, 2010), James Joyce’s Dubliners (Broadview Press, 2016), and James Joyce's Exiles (Oxford World's Classics, 2018). Walsh’s research interests include modernism, Irish Studies, expatriate Paris, French literature, film and theatre. Her articles have appeared in Modernism/modernity, PMLA, Critical Inquiry, and Eire-Ireland. Her monograph Women, Method Acting, and the Hollywood Film (Routledge, 2021) was supported by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Scholar Fellowship.
Keri Walsh
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Sylvia Beach’s Final Book
Booksellers speak through the books they sell, lend, or promote. After World War II, Sylvia Beach officially retired from the profession of bookselling. Having closed the doors of Shakespeare and Company in 1941 under duress during the German Occupation, she never reopened her bookshop. Entering her sixties in the post-war years, she returned to live in the apartment above where her bookshop had been. Surrounded by her enormous archive, she continued to lend, give away, translate, and promote books and authors. Although she was no longer officially a bookseller, she continued to speak through bo