Author Tim Jelfs

Tim Jelfs

Tim Jelfs is an Assistant Professor in American Studies at the University of Groningen. He specializes in the cultural, literary, environmental and political history of the United States in the 20th and 21st centuries. His book, The Argument About Things in the 1980s: Goods and Garbage in an Age of Neoliberalism, will be published by West Virginia University Press in 2018.

Democracy, and Other Fictions: On the Politics of Robinson’s Non-Fiction

Tim Jelfs

Articles

Since the publication of her first novel, Housekeeping (1980), Marilynne Robinson has built up a large body of non-fiction that sits beside, and in dialogue with, her fiction. Even before her environmentalist p... Read More...

Depictions of Shame: White Identity and Cultural Blackness in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Styron’s Confessions of Nat Turner

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

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

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

Democracy, and Other Fictions: On the Politics of Robinson’s Non-Fiction