Author Kevin Power

Kevin Power

Kevin Power completed his doctoral dissertation on the political imagination of Norman Mailer at UCD in 2013. His articles have appeared in The Mailer Review and Irish Journal of American Studies. He is the author of a novel, Bad Day in Blackrock (2008), and has written for various places, including Literary Review, The Dublin Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Dublin Review of Books. He teaches in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin.

On Becoming an Americanist

Kevin Power

Articles, Issue 9 2020

The private roots of scholarship are seldom very respectable. I bring this up because I’ve been thinking about the two small events that made me an Americanist. They happened in adolescence, when we are at our ... Read More...

The Underground Frontier: Norman Mailer’s An American Dream

Kevin Power

Articles, Issue 8 2018-19

earning to know dread is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by not having known dread or by sinking under it. He therefore who has learned rightly to be in drea... Read More...

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

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

‘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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From Mitchelstown to Michigan: Kevin Roche’s Formative Years

On Becoming an Americanist

The Underground Frontier: Norman Mailer’s An American Dream