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Podcast: New Books in American Studies
Episode: Stephen Watt, "From the 'Troubles' to Trumpism: Ireland and America, 1960-2023" (Anthem Press, 2024)
Description: Stephen Watt is the Provost Professor of English at Indiana University. His research interests include drama and theatre of the 19th and 20th centuries, Irish Studies, and the contemporary university and his recent works include Bernard Shawâs Fiction, Material Psychology, and Affect: Shaw, Freud, Simmel (2018), âSomething Dreadful and Grandâ: American Literature and the Irish-Jewish Unconscious (2015), and Beckett and Contemporary Irish Writing (2009).In this interview he discusses his new book, From the 'Troubles' to Trumpism: Ireland and America, 1960-2023 (Anthem Press, 2024), a personal history of Irish, American and Irish-American politics and culture since the 1960s.The essays in...