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Author Andrew Clarke

Andrew Clarke

Andrew Clarke is a PhD student at Maynooth University, part-funded by the John and Pat Hume Doctoral Award. His thesis is on hybridity and ambiguity in the writing and photography of Teju Cole. He holds an MA in Literatures of Engagement from Maynooth University.

“The Fire Is Not in the Future”: Reflections on American Studies in a Year of Crisis.

Andrew Clarke
Articles
The fire is not in the future, so don’t ask when it will be. The fire is not yet to come, for it has happened already. The pandemic took hold, and the world became different. The sense that we lived in a tim... Read More...
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