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About Julie Sheridan
Julie Sheridan's doctoral research on American writer Joyce Carol Oates focuses on the thematic and philosophical connections between the author's fictional canon and non-fictional works on the sport of professional boxing. Julie's article "'Why Such Discontent?': Race, Ethnicity, and Masculinity in What I Lived For" was published in the American journal Studies in the Novel, and her research on Oates also appears in the online scholarly database The Literary Encyclopedia. Julie has presented numerous conference papers on Oates's novels and short stories, and her teaching interests include American modernist literature, contemporary American drama, and the work of French postmodern theorist Jean Baudrillard. She formerly held the positions of vice chair and postgraduate representative of the Irish Association for American Studies.