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...

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

The Populist Turn in American Politics: A Review-Essay of Kivisto’s The Trump Phenomenon

On Becoming an Americanist

From Dangerous Outsiders to Beloved Innocents: Irish Servant Figures in American Gothic

The Shock of Recognition: Reading American Fiction in Celtic Tiger Ireland

Some Comments on Irish American Studies

Lonely, But Not Alone: Studying America in Ireland in the Time of COVID-19

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

Review: T. H. Breen, The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America

The Populist Turn in American Politics: A Review-Essay of Kivisto’s The Trump Phenomenon

Review: Andy Connolly, Philip Roth and the American Liberal Tradition

Review: Ernst, Matter-Siebel, and Schmidt, eds., Revisionist Approaches to American Realism and Naturalism

Review: Bernice M. Murphy, Key Concepts in Contemporary Popular Fiction

Review: Michael J. Lewis, City of Refuge: Separatists and Utopian Town Planning

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