“E Unibus Pluram”: the short story and the voices of a fragmented nation. Ignite article, IJAS online 2 One of the truisms of American studies...

“Emily Grimes is me”: Anxiety, Feminism, and the Masculinity Crisis in Richard Yates’s The Easter Parade Jenny Daly Trinity College...

Review: Kevin J. Hayes, A Journey Through American Literature, Kevin J. Hayes (Oxford: OUP, 2012) Clare Hayes-Brady University College Dublin A...

“[…] the many genres of grief underscore the magnitude of the challenge of making death meaningful, as the unique and individual nature of loss runs up against the dominant conventions that shape memorial traditions and practices” (4).

Review: Amy Hungerford, Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion Since 1960 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010) Hanna...

Review: Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Alma López (eds), Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López’s Irreverent Apparition Donna Maria...

Editorial Philip Coleman Welcome to the second issue of IJASonline, the official journal of the Irish Association for American Studies. This...

Tributes to Emory Elliott (1942-2009): Compiled and introduced by Louise Walsh

“I Wish I had Some Indian Blood”: Hemingway’s Primitivism and the Ojibwa Pimadaziwin Paradigm

DeLillo’s Underworld is one of the most celebrated of all modern American novels, and perhaps the most complex. This complexity is a product of its extraordinarily precise yet oblique chronological structure, which, in its attempt to account for the entire second-half of the twentieth-century, has challenged all its readers, confused many of them, and alienated some.

David Foster Wallace: the Death of the Author and the Birth of a Discipline

[R]epeat, repeat, repeat; revise, revise, revise: Robert Lowell’s Elegiac Poetry

Crooning, Catering, and Changing Careers: Anne Tyler’s and Don Cherry’s Bands (and Bonds) of Gold

From Mitchelstown to Michigan: Kevin Roche’s Formative Years

Lee Marshall, Bob Dylan: The Never Ending Star

Stephanie Rains, The Irish-American in Popular Culture

Samuel Fisher Dodson, Berryman’s Henry

Wai Chee Dimock, Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006)

Imagined America: Walt Whitman’s Nationalism in the First Edition of Leaves of Grass Nathanael O'Reilly Critics often describe Walt Whitman...

“If there is such a literature”: Thoughts on Teaching American Literature in Ireland / Irish Literature in America

“Irish by descent”? Marianne Moore’s American-Irish Inheritance

Frank O'Connor's Representations of Relations between Ireland and America

Jazz, Identity and Sexuality in Ireland during the Interwar Years