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  • Review: Cook, Neither Believer Nor Infidel: Skepticism and Faith in Melville’s Shorter Fiction and Poetry
  • Review: Robin M. Morris, Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women: Gender, Georgia, and the Growth of the New Right
  • “A dismal throng of vague spectres”: Reading Knowledge and Identity in H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” Through Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “My Kinsman, Major Molineux”
  • Review: Kate Fama and Jorie Lagerway, Single Lives: Modern Women in Literature, Culture and Film

Author Philip McGowan

Philip McGowan

Philip McGowan is Professor of American Literature at Queen’s University Belfast and the President of the European Association for American Studies, with research and teaching interests in twentieth-century American poetry, contemporary American fiction, and film. He also has wider interests in revolutionary America, the American nineteenth century, westerns, and American narratives of addiction and alcohol control. In the field of poetry, his teaching and research focuses on Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, the Middle Generation poets, and Mark Doty.

A Backward Glance: My Quarter Century in the IAAS

Philip McGowan
Articles, Issue 9 2020
Rather than inflict another piece of my torturous critical prose on anyone, I have opted for a more personal reflection on some of the Association’s history as it has intersected with my own academic career to ... Read More...

Review: Stephen Burt, the poem is you: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them

Philip McGowan
Issue 6 2017, Reviews
Burt, Stephen. the poem is you: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them. The Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 2016. 432 pages. ISBN 9780674737877. Buy here. Over the course of any given year, I recei... Read More...
Fig. 1, Paris, Vegas

Last Vegas?

Philip McGowan
Articles, Issue 3 2014
This article, and the research out of which it springs, has a number of points of origin; it may also have more than one point of conclusion even as it argues that the current manifestation of Las Vegas could w... Read More...
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