Author Alan Gibbs

Alan Gibbs

Alan Gibbs lectures in American literature at University College Cork, Ireland. His 2014 monograph, Contemporary American Trauma Narratives (Edinburgh University Press) won the Irish Association for American Studies’ 2015 Peggy O’Brien Prize. His current research focuses predominantly on naturalism in contemporary American culture. He has published articles on contemporary naturalist writers including Lionel Shriver and Cormac McCarthy and on TV series including The Wire and The Shield (forthcoming).

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

Alan Gibbs

Issue 10 2020-21, Reviews

Jutta Ernst, Sabina Matter-Siebel, and Klaus H. Schmidt, editors. Revisionist Approaches to American Realism and Naturalism. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018. Using “revisionist” in the title of a text is som... Read More...

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

“Her Happy Solitary Life”: Singleness and Queering the Norm in “Martha’s Lady” by Sarah Orne Jewett and “A New England Nun” by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

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

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

“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

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

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