Faculty
Casey Jarrin
Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D. Duke University, 2006
B.A. Yale University, 1998
Old Main 213, (651) 696-6508
Email: cjarrin-at-macalester.edu
A native New Yorker, Casey Jarrin attended Yale, studied Irish-Gaelic at the University of Ireland-Galway, and received her Ph.D. from Duke before joining the Macalester faculty. She is currently completing a book, Confessional Acts: Interrogation, Authorship, and the Making of the Modern Irish Subject. From prison cells and interrogation rooms to confessionals and peep-show booths, this project looks at intersecting architectural, disciplinary, and expressive histories of the prison and confessional, with a focus on acts of self-disclosure in prison letters/journals (Oscar Wilde, Tom Clarke), novels (Liam O'Flaherty, James Joyce), drama (Brendan Behan, Martin McDonagh), film (John Ford, Neil Jordan, Jim Sheridan), and visual art (Alice Maher). She has conducted research in the US, Britain, and Ireland, most recently at UCLA's Clark Library/Oscar Wilde Archive (2007) and Dublin's National Library of Ireland and Irish Film Archive (2008). She is also co-editing a collection of essays on transatlantic cultures of violence with Macalester colleague Olga Gonzalez.
Professor Jarrin works on twentieth-century British and Irish literature, transnational modernism, post-war film, and post-colonial studies. Over the past few years, she has taught courses on modern Irish fiction, apocalyptic British literature/film, literary grotesques, and working-class subcultures, with a focus on criminality, masculinity, and the aesthetics of violence.
Areas of Study
- 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
- Cultures of violence
Fall 2008 Courses
Previous Macalester Courses
Fellowships and Honors
- Wallace Grant / Dublin, Ireland: Archival research at National Library of Ireland, Irish Film Archive, Irish Architectural Archive, Kilmainham Gaol
- 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
Publications
- "You Have the Right to Refuse Silence: Oscar Wilde's Prison Writings and Tom Clarke's Glimpses of an Irish Felon's Prison Life." Éire-Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies. 43: 3-4 (Fall/Winter 2008). Forthcoming.
- "Alice Maher's Cell: An Archaeology of the Prison Image." Éire-Ireland. 43: 3-4 (Fall/Winter 2008). Forthcoming.
- "Prison As Art Gallery: Exhibit Collaboration Between Kilmainham Gaol and Alcatraz, 1991-2005." Geographies and Genders. Edited Ed Madden and Marti Lee. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008.
Selected Presentations
- "Hearing Is Believing?: Audio Technologies of Confession and Surveillance in Death and the Maiden and In the Name of the Father" (Modernist Studies Association, Annual Meeting; Vanderbilt University, November 2008) - Upcoming
- "Blood in the Cinematic Marketplace: Spectacular Violence and the Persistence of the Gangster Genre in the Films of Martin McDonagh" ("Visualising Ireland" Symposium, University College Dublin, July 2008)
- "Transatlantic Irish Noir: John Ford, Jules Dassin, and Liam O'Flaherty's The Informer." (American Conference for Irish Studies, National Meeting, April 2007)
- "Gothic-Erotic in Breakfast on Pluto and The Crying Game" (SAMLA, November 2006)
- "Industrial Gothic: Landscapes of Labor in Conan Doyle's Valley of Fear" (Gothic Studies Association, May 2004)
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