| William H. Quillian | |
| Occupation: | Professor |
| Nationality: | American |
| Genre: | 19th & 20th century British literature History of criticism and critical theory |
| Subject: | James Joyce T. S. Eliot |
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William Howell Quillian is an American literary critic and James Joyce scholar.[1] [2] He is Professor Emeritus of English at Mount Holyoke College.
Quillian graduated with an A.B. in English from Princeton University in 1965 after completing a senior thesis titled "The Name of Adam: A Study of Henry Miller."[3] He then received a B.A. and M.A. from Cambridge University in 1973 and returned to Princeton for graduate studies. He received a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1975 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "Prince Hamlet in the age of modernism: James Joyce and T.S. Eliot."[4] [5]
He has also been involved with Michael Groden's group in the envisioning and development of Joyce's Ulysses as hypertext and hypermedia as well as other aspects of the digital humanities.[7] [8]