Damien Keane

D. Keane.

Damien Keane

Damien Keane

Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Professor
Department of English
College of Arts and Sciences

Interests

Anglophone modernism, Irish writing and culture, sound technologies (radio and recording), history of material textuality and media, sociology of literature and institutions

Works in Progress

  • Joyce in the LP Era [short monograph]: on the postwar afterlives of the two gramophone recordings Joyce made in his lifetime and what they indicate about literary archives, media, and the function of criticism.
  • “the demoralization brief” [longer-term book project]: on media, morale, and so-called grey literature in the mid-twentieth century.

Selected Publications

Book
  • Ireland and the Problem of Information: Irish Writing, Radio, Late Modernist Communication. Series: Refiguring Modernism (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014). Awarded the 2015 Robert Rhodes Prize for Book on Literature, American Conference for Irish Studies.
Articles and Book Chapters
  • “Radio Pages, Morale Reading, and the Word War.” Brititsh Writing, Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy in the Second World War and Beyond, eds. Beatriz Lopez, James Smith, and Guy Woodward (forthcoming, 2024).
  • “Amplification: At Home with Marlene Dietrich Overseas.” Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology, eds. Alex Goody and Ian Whittington (Edinburgh University Press, 2022), 257–70.
  • “Keyword: Pacification.” In These Times, Modernism/modernity Print Plus Vol. 4, Cycle 4 (30 January 2020): https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/keane-keyword-pacification.
  • “His Re-Mastered Voice: Joyce for Vinyl.” Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism, eds. Kathryn Conrad, Cóilín Parsons, and Julie McCormick Weng (Syracuse University Press, 2019), 144–59.
  • “Time Made Audible: Irish Stations and Radio Modernism.” A History of Irish Modernism, eds. Gregory Castle and Patrick Bixby (Cambridge University Press, 2019), 330–45.
  • “Contrary Regionalisms and Noisy Correspondences: The BBC in Northern Ireland circa 1949.” Modernist Cultures 10.1 (March 2015): 26–43.
  • “Poetry, Music, and Reproduced Sound.” The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry, eds. Fran Brearton and Alan Gillis (Oxford University Press, 2012), 431–55.
  • “Sounds Difficult: Joyce and Modernism’s Recorded Legacy.” Sounding Out!. 30 January 2012: https://soundstudiesblog.com/2012/01/30/sounds-difficult-james-joyce-and-modernisms-recorded-legacy/.
  • “Quotation Marks, the Gramophone Record, and the Language of the Outlaw.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 51.4 (Winter 2009): 400–15.
  • “An Ear Toward Security: The Princeton Listening Center.” Princeton University Library Chronicle 71.1 (Autumn 2009): 45–61. 
Curriculum Vitae