She is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Colorado Boulder. Queen and Fagan also will give two brief craft talks and take questions from 4 to 5 p. The award recognizes an outstanding book, published in English, which exhibits excellence in addressing issues of urban communication. A little over a century ago, the Irish in America were the targets of intense xenophobic anxiety. Much of that anxiety centered on their mobility, whether that was traveling across the ocean to the U.
Granshaw argues that American variety theater, a precursor to vaudeville, was a crucial battleground for these anxieties, as it appealed to both the fears and the fantasies that accompanied the rapid economic and social changes of the Gilded Age.
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