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Caren Irr |
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Professor |
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Waltham, MA 02454 USA |
FIELDS
US literature and culture since 1900 *
critical theory * film and media studies * 21st-century writing * global
studies
RESEARCH (see also CV)
Books:
-Pink Pirates: Contemporary American Women Writers
and Copyright (Iowa 2010)
-The Suburb of Dissent: Cultural Politics in the
United States and Canada during the 1930s
(Duke 1998)
-Rethinking the Frankfurt School: Alternative
Legacies of Cultural Critique (co-ed., SUNY 2002)
-On Jameson: From Postmodernism to Globalization (co-ed.,
SUNY 2006)
In the Works:
-Toward the Geopolitical Novel:
U.S. Fiction in the 21st
Century (under consideration): a book project on
the contemporary revival of the political novel
-Green Politics and the
Novel: Eco-fiction in English
since 1980 (in
progress): an analysis of
the crisis scenarios that arise when green concerns migrate from genre fiction
into the realist novel.
TEACHING
Syllabi for
Spring 2012:
ENG 17a: Alternative and
Underground Journalism
ENG 60b: The Films of Disney
(new course)
Courses for 2012/13:
ENG
187a: American Fiction Since 1945
ENG
28a: Nature Writing
ENG
30b: American Independent Film
ENG
187b: The International Novel
OTHER RESOURCES
For Graduate Students:
Chronicle of
Higher Education's job market advice
New Writing:
Bibliography of Fiction with
Ethiopian Content
EMAIL: irr@brandeis.edu
Last updated 2/2012