CLAIRE BRACKEN

Visiting Assistant Professor

20th and 21st Century Irish Literature, Contemporary Feminist Theory

Contact Information

Office: HUM 021
Phone: 518.388.8746
e-mail: brackenc@union.edu

TEACHING AND INTERESTS

Irish literature and film, gender and sexuality in Irish writing, Irish women's writing, cultural analyses of contemporary Irish culture, feminist theory, poststructuralist philosophy, theories of embodiment and Gilles Deleuze.

PUBLICATIONS

Bracken's publications focus on contemporary Irish culture, feminist criticism and women's writing. She is also a regular book reviewer for the Irish national broadsheet The Irish Times.

"'Each nebulous atom inbetween' - Reading Liminality: Irish Studies, Postmodern Feminism and the Poetry of Catherine Walsh." New Voices in Irish Criticism 5. Eds. Ruth Connolly & Ann Coughlan. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005. 97-109.

"A Mirror up to Irishness: Hollywood Hard Men and Witty Women." Co-written with Emma Radley. Irish Postmodernisms and Popular Culture. Eds. Wanda Balzano, Anne Mulhall & Moynagh Sullivan. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 157-168.

"Becoming-Mother-Machine: The Event of Field Day Vols IV & V." Forthcoming: Irish Literature: Feminist Perspectives. Eds. Patricia Coughlan and Tina O'Toole. Dublin: Carysfort Press, Spring 2008.

"The Love Affairs of the Irish Feminist Critic". Forthcoming: Facing the Other: Interdisciplinary Studies on Race, Gender and Social Justice in Ireland (Cambridge Scholars Press) Eds. Borbala Farago and Moynagh Sullivan.