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Author Kelsie Donnelly

Kelsie Donnelly

Kelsie Donnelly is a final-year PhD candidate at Queen’s University Belfast. She is the recipient of a Northern Bridge doctoral award, and her thesis is entitled “Beyond 9/11: Counter-narratives of Grief in Post-9/11 Literature.” Her work has been published in Contemporary Aesthetics, C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings, as well as the Irish Journal of American Studies.

Lonely, But Not Alone: Studying America in Ireland in the Time of COVID-19

Kelsie Donnelly
Articles, Issue 9 2020
This is not the article I had intended to write. I had planned to write about a conference I co-organised with friends in Irish and American studies in collaboration with the QUB Centre for the Americas, which ... Read More...

“Before You Come Alive, Life Is Nothing; It’s Up to You to Give It a Meaning”: Making Meaning in James Sallis’ Death Will Have Your Eyes

Kelsie Donnelly
Articles, Issue 7 2018
Following Jean-Paul Sartre’s claim that “efore you come alive, life is nothing; it’s up to you to give it a meaning” (Existentialism and Human Emotions 49), this essay will examine the methods for constructing ... Read More...

(Sub)merged Worlds in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping

Kelsie Donnelly
Articles, Issue 6 2017
Special Mention in the 2016 W.T.M Riches Essay Prize This essay explores the (sub)merged worlds depicted in Marilynne Robinson’s novel Housekeeping (1980). Applying psychoanalytic conceptualisations of trauma,... Read More...
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