I - Degrees
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B.A University College Dublin (1981)
M.A. University College Dublin (1982)
Ph.D. Louisiana State University (1989)
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II - Books
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1) Fiction, Crime and Empire: Clues to Modernity and Postmodernism
(University of Illinois Press, 1993). Critical examination of crime fiction in
the Anglo-American tradition from Poe to Pynchon, focusing on the way in which
crime fiction dramatizes tensions having to do with the experience of empire.
2) Pictures of a Floating World (in circulation). Ms. of poems loosely based
upon the American experience of occupation in post-WWII Japan.
3) After Paradise: Essays on the Fate of American Writing
(in progress). Fragmentary essays -- reflections upon the aspirations American
writing has for itself and for American society in general. Essays on William
Bradford, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Michael Herr.
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III - Essays
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Essays in journals such as The Massachusetts Review, Genre, Postmodern Culture,
Literature and History, and Works and Days.
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IV - Poetry
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CrossConnect, Iowa Review, Quarterly West, Faultline, Prism International, The
Centennial Review, American Literary Review, Potomac Review, Terra Nova, and
other small magazines.
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V - Editorial
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