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  • “‘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: Leopold Lippert, Performing America Abroad

Author Olga Thierbach-McLean

Olga Thierbach-McLean

Olga Thierbach-McLean is an independent scholar, journalist, musician, and literary translator. After studying North American literature, Russian literature, and musicology at the University of Hamburg and UC Berkeley, she earned her doctorate in American Studies at UHH. She is the author of various articles on U.S. political culture, as well as of the book Emersonian Nation which traces the resonance of Emersonian individualism in current U.S. discourses on personal rights and social reform. Her main research interests are in contemporary U.S. politics and particularly the intersections between politics and literature, in American Transcendentalism, the intellectual history of liberalism, and dystopian fiction. Currently, her projects are focused on the cultural appropriation debate as an aspect of American political exceptionalism and on the reimagination of the cyberpunk genre as social criticism.

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

Olga Thierbach-McLean
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The new millennium has entered its third decade, but the 1990s have never quite left us. For twenty years, they have been haunting the pop-cultural imagination as a lost golden era. In what is just the latest i... Read More...

A Conflict-Laden Consensus: Is the U.S. a One-Party System in Disguise?

Olga Thierbach-McLean
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With Donald Trump as U.S. President and leader of the Republican Party, the ideological divide between American conservatives and liberals seems greater than ever before. From healthcare to environmental policy... Read More...
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