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

"The Product of a Spoiled America": Divorce as Collective Crisis in U.S. Popular Culture of the 1990s

“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

“‘Normal People’ Indeed!”: Anne Tyler, Sally Rooney, and the Narrative of Youthful Quirk

Review: Milteer, 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.

Review: Austenfeld, ed., Robert Lowell in a New Century

Review: Wills, Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture

Review: Sawires-Masseli, Arab American Novels Post-9/11: Classical Storytelling Motifs against Outsidership

Review: Christian Schmidt, Postblack Aesthetics: The Freedom to be Black in Contemporary African American Fiction.

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