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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

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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...
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