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

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

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

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

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

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