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...

Lonely, But Not Alone: Studying America in Ireland in the Time of COVID-19

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American Wakes and the Global Troubles: U.S. Collapse Fiction and the Irish Future

What a Difference a Word Makes: Reconsidering Language in Huckleberry Finn

“[N]ow There Ought to Be a Watchman”: Curfews and Race in U.S. Literature

Kindred Spirits: Solidarity Between the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and Ireland

Moses Roper, The First Fugitive Slave Lecturer in Ireland, 1838

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

Review: Ernst, Matter-Siebel, and Schmidt, eds., Revisionist Approaches to American Realism and Naturalism

Review: Bernice M. Murphy, Key Concepts in Contemporary Popular Fiction

Review: Michael J. Lewis, City of Refuge: Separatists and Utopian Town Planning

Review: Jesús Blanco Hidalga, Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community: Narratives of Salvation

Review: Eileen T. Lundy and Edward J. Lundy, eds., Practicing Transnationalism: American Studies in the Middle East

Review: Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, After American Studies: Rethinking the Legacies of Transnational Exceptionalism

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