Bernard Benstock was a literary critic and a professor of English at the University of Miami

University of Miami

The University of Miami is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 with its main campus in Coral Gables, Florida, a medical campus in Miami city proper at Civic Center, and an oceanographic research facility on Virginia Key., the university currently enrolls 15,629 students in 12...

. He was an authority on British mystery writers, and Irish writers Sean O'Casey

Seán O'Casey

Seán O'Casey was an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes.- Early life:...

 and James Joyce

James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century...

. He was editor of the "James Joyce Literary Supplement" and a co-founder of the International James Joyce Foundation, of which he was president for eight years. He died on July 14, 1994 at the age of 64, in Egremont, Massachusetts.

Major works

• Approaches to Joyce's Portrait: Ten Essays (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1976)

External links

• To make a long story short: In memoriam Bernard Benstock, 1930-1994