Assoc ProfessorClare Hayes-Brady

Dr Hayes-Brady's research interests centre around American fictions of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and their debt to their precursors, both national and transnational. She is currently at work preparing her doctoral thesis for publication as a monograph, under the working title "'It's got something to do with love': David Foster Wallace and the drive to connect". This project is a survey of the work of American writer David Foster Wallace that takes as its starting point the author's recurring preoccupations with communication and solipsism. Dr Hayes-Brady is also pursuing a more recent interest in narrative and cinematic representations of burlesque, particularly in its depiction as a multifarious vehicle of resistance to pre- and proscribed gender and sexual identifiers. Other research interests include adaptations from page to screen and vice versa; transatlantic cultural heritage; performative sexuality (both normative and queer); digital humanities and modes of transmission; adolescence in contemporary fiction, and the resurgence of dystopian narrative.