Contact Information
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Caren Irr
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Duke University
Research Interests
American Literature and Culture since 1900, Theory, Media Studies.
Selected Publications
On Jameson: From Postmodernsim to Globalization, co-editor, State University of New York Press, 2005
Rethinking the Frankfurt School: Alternative Legacies of Cultural Critique, co-editor, State University of New York Press, 2002
The Suburb of Dissent: Cultural Politics in the United States and Canada during the 1930s. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.
Articles and reviews in American Literary History, Global Ordering (UBC 2008), Profession, Genre, The Novel and the American Left (Iowa 2004), altx.com, American Quarterly, South Atlantic Quarterly, American Literature, Essays on Canadian Writing, Moderism/Modernity, Polygraph, Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization (M.E. Sharpe 2003), World Bank Literature (Minnesota 2002), Leslie Marmon Silko: A Collection of Essays (New Mexico 1999), and other journals and collections.
Current Projects
"Pink Pirates: Contemporary American Women Writers and Copyright" (forthcoming from Iowa).
"Toward the Geopolitical Novel: Emerging Genres of U.S. Fiction, 2000-2010": This project profiles approximately fifty of the most interesting writers publishing in the new millennium. Their recent adaptations to the immigration novel, the political thriller, the national romance, the war novel and the expatriate satire collectively signal, I argue, the return of the political novel, albeit in a geopolitical form. Some of the authors featured include Dave Eggers, Chris Abani, Tony D'Souza, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Díaz, Richard Powers, Aleksander Hemon, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Gary Shteyngart, Daniel Alarcón, Uzodinma Iweala, Olga Grushin, Dinaw Mengestu, Claire Messud, and William T. Vollmann.
Awards
Fulbright Lecturer, Czech Republic, 2003-2004.
Selected Courses Taught
Cyber-Theory (ENG 101b)
American Popular Music and Contemporary Fiction (ENG 177b)
American Fiction since 1945 (ENG 187a)
American Writers and World Affairs (ENG 187b)
American Literature After Television (ENG 217a)
Copyright and Contemporary American Writing (ENG 217b)
21st-Century American Literature (ENG 8a)