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).

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Lee M. Jenkins

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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...

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

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

“The Product of a Spoiled America”: Divorce as Collective Crisis in U.S. Popular Culture of the 1990s

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

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

Review: Leopold Lippert, Performing America Abroad

Review: Kloeckner, Knewitz, and Sielke, eds., Knowledge Landscapes North America

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