Author Lee M. Jenkins

Lee M. Jenkins

Lee M. Jenkins is Professor of English at University College Cork. A former Vice-Chair of the IAAS, she is the author of Wallace Stevens: Rage for Order (1999), The Language of Caribbean Poetry (2004) and The American Lawrence (2015). With Alex Davis, she is the editor of three Cambridge University Press collections, Locations of Literary Modernism (2000), The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry (2007), and A History of Modernist Poetry (2015). She has published widely on Irish and African American connections, from Frederick Douglass to Claude McKay; a contributor to David Lloyd and Peter D. O’Neill’s The Black and Green Atlantic (Palgrave 2009), she is the co-editor with Mark Leone of an interdisciplinary essay collection, Atlantic Crossings after Frederick Douglass (Brill 2017).

Some Comments on Irish American Studies

Lee M. Jenkins

Articles, Issue 9 2020

In its early iterations, Irish American Studies focused almost exclusively on Irish American writing, on literature produced by Americans of Irish descent (for example, James T. Farrell’s Studs Lonigan trilogy ... Read More...

“Her Happy Solitary Life”: Singleness and Queering the Norm in “Martha's Lady” by Sarah Orne Jewett and “A New England Nun” by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Respectability Politics and the Culture of Dissemblance in Stanley Kramer’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and Jack Hill’s Foxy Brown

“It was only the darkened house that could contain her”: Containing Forms in The Scarlet Letter

“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

Review: Katherine Manthorne, Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex.

Review: Lahr, Arthur Miller: American Witness

Review: Robert Collins, Noraid and The Northern Ireland Troubles, 1970-1994

Review: Brian Yothers, Melville’s Mirrors: Literary Criticism and America’s Most Elusive Author

Review: Charles L. Chavis Jr., The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State

Review: Warren Eugene Milteer, Jr. 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

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

From Mitchelstown to Michigan: Kevin Roche’s Formative Years

Some Comments on Irish American Studies