A special issue (dossier on James Joyce) of the refereed international journal "mediAzioni" (ISSN: 1974-4382), an interdisciplinary online magazine of the Depatment of Interdisciplinary Studies on Translation, Languages and Cultures. It contains articles by international scholars, whose critical approaches to the life and work of James Joyce represent recent trends in Joyce scholarship. The papers deal with biography (Pugliatti), linguistic analysis (Cecconi), history and symbolism (O'Neill) and translation (Zanotti). The editor, R. M. Bollettieri is a well-known Joyce scholar, who was elected President of the International James Joyce foundation for four years (2000-2004)