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

“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

‘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

Review: Austenfeld, ed., Robert Lowell in a New Century

Review: Milteer, 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.

Review: Wills, Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture

Review: Sawires-Masseli, Arab American Novels Post-9/11: Classical Storytelling Motifs against Outsidership

Review: Christian Schmidt, Postblack Aesthetics: The Freedom to be Black in Contemporary African American Fiction.

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