Contributors
- Contributors
abby bender teaches courses in literature, gender, and disability in the languages and literatures department at Sacred Heart University, where she is codirector of the Irish Studies minor. She is the author of Israelites in Erin: Exodus, Revolution, and the Irish Revival (Syracuse University Press, 2015), as well as essays on James Joyce, Lady Gregory, and Patrick Pearse. Her current book project examines the cultural and literary history of breastfeeding in Ireland.
joanna biggs is a senior editor at Harper's Magazine. Her first book, All Day Long: A Portrait of Britain at Work, came out in 2015, and she is at work on a second, a collection of essays about women writers, including George Eliot, Toni Morrison, and Elena Ferrante. She was born in London, educated at Oxford, and lives in New York.
claire bracken is an associate professor in the English department at Union College, New York, where she teaches courses on Irish literature and film. She has published journal articles and book chapters on Irish women's writing, feminist criticism, and twentieth- and twenty-first century fiction and poetry, most recently in The Rout-ledge International Handbook of Irish Studies (2021) and The New Irish Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2020). She is coeditor of Anne Enright (Irish Academic Press, Spring 2011) and Viewpoints: Theoretical Perspectives on Irish Visual Texts (Cork University Press, 2013). Her book Irish Feminist Futures was published by Routledge in 2016 as part of the Transformations series. In 2017 she coedited with Tara Harney-Mahajan a double special issue of the journal LIT entitled "Recessionary Imaginings: Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland and Contemporary Women's Writing," which was republished by Routledge as Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland and Contemporary Women's Writing in 2021.
mary burke is professor of English at the University of Connecticut. Her book, Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Cultural History (Oxford University Press), and her collaboration with Tramp Press on the re-issue of Juanita Casey's novel The Horse of Selene are forthcoming. Her short stories have been included in a David Marcus-edited Faber Best Irish Short Stories and short-listed for Ireland's Hennessy and RTÉ/Francis MacManus prizes, and her public-facing scholarship has been featured on NPR, RTÉ, and the Irish Times. She is a former Notre Dame/NEH Keough-Naughton Fellow.
celia de fréine writes in many genres in both Irish and English. Awards for her poetry include the Patrick Kavanagh Award and Gradam Litríochta Chló Iar-Chonnacht. To date she has published nine collections. Her plays have won numerous Oireachtas awards, and her film and television scripts have won awards in Ireland and America. Ceannródaí (LeabhairCOMHAR, 2018), her biography of Louise Gavan Duffy, won the ACIS Duais Leabhar Taighde na Bliana (2019) and was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards (2018) and Gradam Uí Shuilleabháin (2019). Cur i gCéill, her first thriller (LeabhairCOMHAR, 2019) was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards (2020). Her YA novel An Dara Rogha has recently been published by LeabhairCOMHAR.
cara delay is professor of history at the College of Charleston. Her research analyzes women, gender, and culture in modern Ireland, with a particular focus on the history of reproduction. Her award-winning body of scholarship includes three books and more than thirty peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters. Her new book (coauthored with Beth Sundstrom), Catching Fire: Women's Health Activism in Ireland, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
rachel fallon is a visual artist who deals with themes of protection and defense in domestic realms and addresses the topic of motherhood and women's relationships to society. Her work encompasses sculpture, drawing, photography, and performance and is firmly rooted in the processes of making. Besides engaging in an individual practice, she regularly collaborates with other artists and collectives, including The Artists' Campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment, Desperate Artwives, Grrrl Zine Fair, and the Magdalene Series. She considers her two disparate ways of working as feeding into one another and therefore as equally important parts of her practice. She lives and works in Ireland.
luz mar gonzález-arias works in the area of medical humanities as applied to contemporary Irish women...
