Author Adam Kelly

Adam Kelly

Adam Kelly joined University College Dublin in January 2020 as Associate Professor of English, having previously taught at the University of York and at Harvard University. He is author of American Fiction in Transition: Observer Hero Narrative, the 1990s, and Postmodernism (Bloomsbury 2013), co-editor of recent special issues of Comparative Literature Studies and Open Library of the Humanities, and co-founder and co-chair of the Post45 UK research network. His research in literary studies focuses primarily on normative concepts including sincerity, complicity, debt, and freedom. His monograph-in-progress is American Fiction at the Millennium: Neoliberalism and the New Sincerity.

The Shock of Recognition: Reading American Fiction in Celtic Tiger Ireland

Adam Kelly

Articles, Issue 9 2020

In the spring of 2002, as a second-year undergraduate at University College Dublin, I took a course called “Contemporary Irish Literature: Excavating the Present.” I still remember vividly its opening lecture, ... Read More...

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

Adam Kelly

Articles, Issue 2 2010

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

“It was only the darkened house that could contain her”: Containing Forms in The Scarlet Letter

Respectability Politics and the Culture of Dissemblance in Stanley Kramer’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and Jack Hill’s Foxy Brown

“Seeming Strangeness”: Mina Loy’s Poetics of Disruption and Julia Kristeva’s Semiotic/Symbolic Model

Cold Reality: Revisions of War in John Knowles’ “Phineas” and A Separate Peace

The State Department’s Northern Ireland Special Envoys and the redemption of the Good Friday Agreement

“a settled place”: Reproductive Performance in the Liberties and The Liberties

‘The Ethics of Quantum Colonialism’: Navigating American Racial Anxiety in N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became

Review: Brian Yothers, Melville’s Mirrors: Literary Criticism and America’s Most Elusive Author

Review: Lahr, Arthur Miller: American Witness

Review: Robert Collins, Noraid and The Northern Ireland Troubles, 1970-1994

Review: Charles L. Chavis Jr., The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State

Review: Warren Eugene Milteer, Jr. Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Color in the South

Review: Baumgartner, South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

Review: Katherine Manthorne, Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex.

The IAAS's Americanista: An Interview with Catherine Gander (IAAS Chair)

From Mitchelstown to Michigan: Kevin Roche’s Formative Years

The Shock of Recognition: Reading American Fiction in Celtic Tiger Ireland

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