Author Adrianna Smith

Adrianna Smith

Adrianna Smith is an independent scholar and works at her alma mater, Georgetown University, in the Office of the Provost. She completed her MLitt at the University of St. Andrews in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Culture.

The Nature of the Horizon: Genealogy in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead

Adrianna Smith

Articles

The structural and literary symbolism of the horizon/horizontality is one of the most powerful and versatile devices in Marilynne Robinson’s novel Gilead (2004). From an organizational perspective, Robinson car... Read More...

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

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

Depictions of Shame: White Identity and Cultural Blackness in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Styron’s Confessions of Nat Turner

Satire, Symbolism, and the “Working Through” of Historical Ghosts in The Confidence-Man

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

The Populist Turn in American Politics: A Review-Essay of Kivisto’s The Trump Phenomenon

On Becoming an Americanist

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

Review: Wickham Clayton, ed, Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film

Review: Leopold Lippert, Performing America Abroad

Review: Kloeckner, Knewitz, and Sielke, eds., Knowledge Landscapes North America

Review: T. H. Breen, The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America

The Populist Turn in American Politics: A Review-Essay of Kivisto’s The Trump Phenomenon

Review: Andy Connolly, Philip Roth and the American Liberal Tradition

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

From Mitchelstown to Michigan: Kevin Roche’s Formative Years

The Nature of the Horizon: Genealogy in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead