Caren Irr
Professor
Department of English
Brandeis University
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:

-Toward the Geopolitical Novel: U.S. Fiction in the 21st Century (forthcoming from Columbia University Press, 2013)

-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:

-Orphan Stories (in progress). A dissection of the most common contemporary fantasies about unparented children; chapters examine literary orphans of the U.K., U.S., Korea, Brazil, East Africa, and Russia.

-Politics and the Green Novel: Eco-fiction in English since 1980 (in progress). A group of essays on environmentalist versions of the political novel.

TEACHING

Spring 2013:

ENG 50b: American Independent Film

Fall 2013:

ENG 200a: Approaches to Literary and Cultural Studies

ENG 11b: Fiction: A Basic Course (new)

ENG 8a: 21st-Century American Literature

Spring 2014:

On teaching leave

OTHER RESOURCES

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