Author Fionnghuala Sweeney and Bruce Baker

Fionnghuala Sweeney and Bruce Baker

Fionnghuala Sweeney is Reader in American and Black Atlantic Literature at Newcastle University. Her research and teaching encompass 19th-century US Studies, African American literature and culture, literary ecologies, Black Atlantic studies, and Afromodernism. She has published on Frederick Douglass; Afromodernisms; the US and Cuban slave narrative; Ireland, Britain, and slavery; travel writing; visual culture; and Paul Robeson, amongst other things. Bruce E. Baker is Reader in American History at Newcastle University, where his research and teaching interests centre on aspects of the American South in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He has published on historical memory, labour history, Reconstruction, lynching, the cotton trade, and the underground economy of New Orleans. He is a past editor of the journal American Nineteenth Century History.

Moses Roper, The First Fugitive Slave Lecturer in Ireland, 1838

Fionnghuala Sweeney and Bruce Baker

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Born into slavery in North Carolina around 1815, Moses Roper is a significant if understudied figure in Irish studies, Black Atlantic studies, and American studies more generally. His flight to the United Kingd... Read More...

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

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

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

“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

From Dangerous Outsiders to Beloved Innocents: Irish Servant Figures in American Gothic

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

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

Review: Bernice M. Murphy, Key Concepts in Contemporary Popular Fiction

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

From Mitchelstown to Michigan: Kevin Roche’s Formative Years

Moses Roper, The First Fugitive Slave Lecturer in Ireland, 1838