Claire Bracken
Assistant Professor (Ph.D. University College Dublin)20th and 21st Century Irish Literature,
Contemporary Feminist Theory
ON LEAVE FALL '11 & WINTER '12
Contact Information:
Office: 36 Union Avenue, Office 205
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; analyses of contemporary Irish culture; feminist theory; poststructuralist philosophy; theories of embodiment and Gilles Deleuze.
PUBLICATIONS
Bracken's publications focus on Irish culture, postfeminism, feminist criticism, and women's writing. She is currently working on a monograph entitled Irish Feminist Futures.
Edited Collections
Bracken, Claire and Susan Cahill. Eds. Anne Enright. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2011.
Bracken, Claire and Emma Radley. Eds. Theorising the Visual: New Directions in Irish Cultural Studies (forthcoming, Cork University Press).
Journal Articles
"Postfeminism and Irish Culture: Anne Enright's 'Natalie' and The Wig My Father Wore" (under review).
"Queer Intersections and Nomadic Routes: Anne Enright’s The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch" (forthcoming, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies).
Book Chapters
"An Irish Feminist GenX Aesthetic: Televisual Memories in Anne Enright's The Wig My Father Wore." Generation X Goes Global: Mapping a Youth Culture in Motion. Ed. Christine Henseler (forthcoming, Routledge).
"Postfeminism and the Celtic Tiger: Deirdre O'Kane's Television Roles." Theorising the Visual: New Directions in Irish Cultural Studies. Eds. Claire Bracken and Emma Radley (forthcoming, Cork University Press).
"A Temporality of Futuristic Forgetting: Claire Kilroy's All Summer." Women in Irish Culture and History. Eds. Maria Luddy, Gerardine Meaney and Anne Mulhall (forthcoming).
"Anne Enright's Machines: Technology and Selfhood in Contemporary Ireland." Anne Enright. Eds. Claire Bracken and Susan Cahill. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2011. 185-204.
"Becoming-Mother-Machine: The Event of Field Day Vols IV & V." Irish Literature: Feminist Perspectives. Eds. Patricia Coughlan and Tina O'Toole. Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2008. 223-244.
"The Love Affairs of the Irish Feminist Critic". Facing the Other: Interdisciplinary Studies on Race, Gender and Social Justice in Ireland. Eds. Borbala Farago and Moynagh Sullivan. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. 204-219.
"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.
"'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.