Professor Liam Kennedy: “America and Ireland: Re-imaging priorities and our community”

Professor Liam Kennedy is Director of the Clinton Institute for American Studies at University College Dublin. He has diverse research interests and teaching experiences, spanning the fields of American cultural and media studies, globalisation and Irish-US relations.

He is the author of Susan Sontag (1995), Race and Urban Space in American Culture (2000) and Afterimages: Photography and US Foreign Policy (2016). He is editor of Urban Space and Representation (1999) City Sites: An Electronic Book (2000), Remaking Birmingham: The Visual Culture of Urban Regeneration (2004),The Wire: Race, Class and Genre (2013) and The Violence of the Image (2014), and Neoliberalism and American Literature (2016).

He is currently researching contemporary Irish America and also preparing edited books on the election and presidency of Donald Trump and on diaspora and diplomacy.

Contact: Liam.Kennedy@ucd.ie

Tel +353 1 7161561