Joakim Wrethed has hitherto mainly worked in Irish Studies—especially on John Banville—but he also explores the contemporary novel in English more generally without any primary emphasis on national boundaries. Phenomenology, postmodernism, aesthetics and theology are overarching topics of his scholarly work. Some of the more recent publications have been on Irish Literature as World Literature (on Banville, Joyce, Yeats and Beckett), The Postmodern Gothic, John Williams, Tom McCarthy, aesthetics, the anthropocene and the posthuman zeitgeist.
Joakim will present in Panel 1: Irish Literature and Alternative Culture in the 19th and 20th Centuries.