Achievements

1. I finished my PhD.
2. The Journal of Modern Literature accepted a piece of mine.
3. Like This Press accepted my chapbook manuscript.
4. The Kenyon Review Online accepted and published a short story of mine
5. I co-organized a highly successful postgraduate conference in Joyce studies.

Other Things I Did

1. I joined the staff of the newly relaunched Poets’ Quarterly.
2. I visited Rome for the first time (for a conference).
3. I participated in the first MOOC MOOC.
4. I helped write a novel in 24 hours.

Other Things to Celebrate

1. The birth of my niece!
2. Publication of Joyce Studies in Italy 12: Polymorphic Joyce, including my essay “Joyce, Berlitz, and the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language.”
3. Publication of The Performance Identities of Lady Gaga: Critical Essays, including my essay “Lady Gaga’s Bodies: Buying and Selling the Fame Monster.”

And a Thirteenth for ’13

The Question Remaining

1. Where to next?