Welcome to Issue 14 of IJAS Online, the official journal of the Irish Association for American Studies.
The articles and reviews in this issue were published on a rolling basis throughout 2025. The issue features one article, José Manuel Correoso-Rodenas’s “The Rhetoric of the Rebellion in Luis Monfort’s Translation of Wieland (1818).” Charles Brockden Brown’s novel, first published in 1798, was later translated into Spanish by the cleric Luis Monfort in 1818, and Correoso-Rodenas traces the four volumes of that translation in the context of the development of the developing transatlantic literary market. The essay examines the “adaptation of ideas” that takes place in the encounter with emerging American literary forms. In doing so, the translation arguably serves as “a cipher for a discussion of Latin America that might otherwise be prohibited under the rule of Ferdinand VII” and challenges contemporary colonial reports. Monfort’s translation “writes back to the recently established and expanding republic,” rendering the novel’s fictional rebellion “a tale in which Native nations are represented in conflict with European colonial powers across North America.”
This issue also includes reviews of several recent monographs presenting new research in American Studies. Included here are reviews by Oran Patrick Kennedy of David Silkenat’s Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South, by Colum Kenny of Marion R. Casey’s The Green Space: The Transformation of the Irish Image, and by Clodagh Philippa Guerin of Celine Parreñas Shimizu’s The Movies of Racial Childhoods: Screening Self-Sovereignty in Asian/America.
Readers of IJAS Online are encouraged to submit articles for consideration and to send ideas for reviews and other items to the editors. All suggestions will be considered. Readers are of course also invited to consider joining the Irish Association for American Studies, which is responsible for maintaining and funding the journal as well as for supporting early career scholars through the W.T.M. Riches Prize and similar initiatives.
This issue of IJAS Online was edited by Tim Groenland and Fionnghuala Sweeney (Co-Editors-in-Chief) as well as Reviews Editor Keira Williams. Our thanks to the peer reviewers whose expertise and advice informs the articles here. As always, the journal remains committed to publishing articles, interviews, and reviews on American Studies, broadly defined, which means publishing on all aspects of American life and culture, including literature, film, history, social studies, geography, music, art, architecture, and more.
We hope you enjoy Issue 14, 2025.
Tim Groenland
Fionnghuala Sweeney
IJAS Online Co-Editors-in-Chief
