Sinéad Moynihan (Exeter): ‘Watching the mail for [. . .] the “Amerikay letther”’: Benedict Kiely and The New Yorker

Sinéad Moynihan is Professor in American and Atlantic Literatures in the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Exeter. She is the author of Ireland, Migration and Return Migration: The "Returned Yank" in the Cultural Imagination, 1952 to present (Liverpool UP, 2019), which was awarded the Michael J. Durkan Prize for Books on Language and Culture by the American Conference for Irish Studies. She also published "Other People's Diasporas": Negotiating Race in Contemporary Irish and Irish-American Culture (Syracuse UP, 2013). Her current research project is titled For Export Only: Irish Writers and U.S. Magazines, 1940 to 1970.

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