Casey Jarrin

Macalester College

• Assistant Professor of English
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Expertise

• 20th-Century British and Irish literature/film; transatlantic modernism
• Diasporic Irish studies and immigration history; Gaelic revival and Irish language
• British cultural studies and youth subcultures
• Anglophone post-colonial literature and theory
• Comparative film studies and genre theory (film noir, transnational gangster cinema, horror genre, British/French New Wave)
• Postwar visual and popular culture
• Prison, criminal, and confessional literature
• Dystopian and apocalyptic literature
• Dystopian and apocalyptic literature

Courses/Seminars

• 20th-Century British and Irish Modernisms: Alienation and Apocalypse
• Representing Violence: Anglophone Fiction and Film
• Film Studies: Gangster Cinema, 1930s-Present
• 20th C British Novel: Diasporic London

Honors & Awards

• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship: UCLA, Clark Library
• Foreign Language and Area Studies Grants, Irish-Gaelic language study: University of California-Berkeley; University of Ireland-Galway

Links

• English Department