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Research Interests

Modernist to Contemporary Literature in German and English, Comparative Literature, Cultural Theory, Gender, Masculinity, Queer Studies, Environmental Humanities, Translation.

Publications

Books

Modern Men: Mapping Masculinity in English and German Literature 1880 – 1930, London and New York: Cassell, 1999. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/modern-men-9780304703104/

Postmodern Time and Space in Fiction and Theory, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. http://www.palgrave.com/9783030374495

Recent articles

“Seeing beyond the Anthropocene with Joyce and Beckett”. Lagoonscapes, The Venice Journal of Environmental Humanities 4(2), 461480. e-ISSN 2785-2709  December 2024 Edizioni Ca’Foscari, Venice University Press. DOI 10.30687/LGSP/2785‑2709/2024/02/011 https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/media/pdf/article/the-venice-journal-of-environmental-humanities/2024/2/art-10.30687-LGSP-2785-2709-2024-02-011.pdf 

'The Great Escape' (Short story), New Irish Writing, The Irish Independent, 25.11.2023.https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/new-irish-writing/new-irish-writing-the-great-escapeby-michael-kane/a168164489.html

“Bare Bodies, Strange Machines, Military Operations, and Technical Language in Kafka’s ‘In der Strafkolonie’ and Beckett’s ‘Imagination Dead Imagine’ and ‘Ping’:” The Modern Language Review, 118.3, July 2023, pp.285-307. https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2023.a901109

“The Shifting Geography of Masculinity in Death in Venice and ‘The Dead’” Literary Geographies, Vol. 8, 1, 2022, pp.45-63. https://www.literarygeographies.net/index.php/LitGeogs/article/view/307

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