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Aran Ward Sell serves as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies within the University of Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs. Holding the W.B. Yeats Fellowship in Irish Literature, he investigates contemporary authors responding to economic and environmental collapse through innovative narrative forms.
His research focuses on contemporary modernist and 'weird' fiction emerging from Ireland's post-2008 financial crisis and climate change impacts. Key interests include:
- Stream of damaged consciousness as modernist evolution
- Capitalist inoperability in post-catastrophic settings
- Neoliberal collapse through speculative frameworks
- Anthropogenic crisis in narrative structures
Analysis of his publications reveals consistent engagement with Irish literary responses to systemic collapse, particularly examining how authors like Danny Denton, Paul Lynch, and Eimear McBride deploy fragmented consciousness to represent economic trauma. His work bridges literary theory, environmental humanities, and postcolonial studies through examinations of 'weird' and 'eerie' modes.
Ward Sell actively contributes to academic discourse through presentations at international conferences including the American Conference for Irish Studies and Canadian Association of Irish Studies. His teaching background spans English and Scottish literature at the University of Edinburgh, complemented by professional experience in digital learning technologies.
