The World Wide Dubliners Project is designed to provide students and teachers throughout the world with an authorative, annotated, and collaborative edition of Joyce's Dubliners. The editors hope it will become part of a larger distributed curriculum that will come to inhabit the World Wide Web.

The Editors

• Roger B. Blumberg is a graduate of Columbia College, where he changed his major from Economics to English and Comparative Literature after attending the first two weeks of Wallace Gray's course Eliot, Joyce and Pound. He was Senior Hypermedia Researcher with the Scholarly Technology Group, at Brown University, and a Visiting Scholarly in Brown's Insitute for Brain and Neural Systems, in the Departments of Physics and Neuroscience, when World Wide Dubliners was composed. He is the creator of MendelWeb, and has written about electronic curriculum, science education, and the history of science. He is currently on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science at Brown.
• Wallace Gray was Professor English and Comparative Literature, at Columbia University, and later a member of Columbia's Society of Senior Scholars. The author of Homer to Joyce (MacMillan, 1985), he taught Joyce to Columbia College students for more than 35 years. He died in December, 2001, at the age of 74.

Frequently Asked Questions

• Can anyone contribute annotations to the Reader's Dubliners"?
Yes.
• Can I link my pages to those in World Wide Dubliners
Yes, though it is likely that WWD will change locations in the coming (1997-1998) year.
• Do the pages of WWD link to other sites?
Yes, and eventually WWD will include a partial list of those sites.
• How should I cite WWD in my bibliography?
If you are making a general reference to the site, the citation should read:

World Wide Dubliners, edited by Roger B. Blumberg and Wallace Gray. (http://www.mendele.com/WWD/, Edition 97.1).

If you are citing a particular piece or section of WWD, then the citation should be similar to the way you cite an printed article in an edited collection. For example, if you are citing Wallace Gray's comment on the term "railings" in the story "Araby" you should write:

Gray, Wallace. "Notes to Joyce's Araby," in World Wide Dubliners, edited by Roger B. Blumberg and Wallace Gray. (http://www.mendele.com/WWD/, Draft 97.1), http://www.mendele.com/WWD/WWDaraby.notes.html#railings.

• What does the phrase "distributed curriculum" mean?
The World Wide Web is sometimes described as a system of distributed hypermedia: distributed because the materials reside on machines throughout the world, and are written, created, edited, formatted and maintained by people with different backgrounds and expertise; hypermedia because the materials can be linked to, and interact with, other materials on the network. A distributed curriculum comes about when the materials for a particular course, or course of study, are created and composed at various sites, by a variety of teachers, scholars and researchers, and are all available to students no matter how distant from the source of the materials. This allows content modules on the Web (e.g. World Wide Dubliners) to be used by large numbers of students and teachers (whether in secondary schools, colleges, or continuing education settings), whether or not they are enrolled in the similar sorts of courses, and regardless of the materials that are available to them "locally". Thus, we can imagine WWD being used in distributed curricula for courses on Joyce, or the short story, or the representation of religion in literature, or various forms of "modernism," or Irish and British history. (For more on the idea of distributed curriculum as it might apply in science courses, see Blumberg's article at the AAAS Nextwave site).