Author Dorothea Gail

Dorothea Gail

Dorothea Gail has taught and held academic editorial positions at the University of Oklahoma and the University of Michigan, USA. From 2014-17, she taught at the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies at the University of Mainz, Germany where she finished her second book entitled Weird American Music (Winter, 2018). In 2018 she founded her own publishing house, Cocoon Press, in County Cork, Ireland. Her research interests as an independent scholar and writer focus on the felt power shift away from the West, covering topics of collapse and resilience and analyzing features and power structures of so-called “failed” states/communities. She is working on a book about collapse.

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

Dorothea Gail

Articles, Issue 9 2020

Arnold Toynbee reminds us that all civilizations fall (cf. also Diamond). We are arguably at a cliff edge, over which the U.S. is by many accounts already tumbling in slow motion, possibly dragging much of West... Read More...

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

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

“a settled place”: Reproductive Performance in the Liberties and The Liberties

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

Review: Lahr, Arthur Miller: American Witness

Review: Robert Collins, Noraid and The Northern Ireland Troubles, 1970-1994

Review: Brian Yothers, Melville’s Mirrors: Literary Criticism and America’s Most Elusive Author

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

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

From Mitchelstown to Michigan: Kevin Roche’s Formative Years

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