Claire Bracken
Assistant Professor (Ph.D. University College Dublin)20th and 21st Century Irish Literature,
Contemporary Feminist Theory
Contact Information:
Office: Humanities 215D
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, which will be published by Routledge in 2013 as part of the Transformations series.
Edited Collections
Bracken, Claire and Susan Cahill. Eds. Anne Enright. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2011.
Bracken, Claire and Emma Radley. Eds. Viewpoints: Theoretical Perspectives on Irish Visual Texts. Cork: Cork University Press, 2012.
Journal Articles
"Queer Intersections and Nomadic Routes: Anne Enright’s The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch." Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. 35.1 (2012): 109-123.
“Grounded Futurity: Time and Subjectivity in Lisa Baraitser’s Maternal Encounters.” Studies in Gender and Sexuality. 13.2 (2012): 80-84.
Book Chapters
"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).
"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. New York: Routledge, 2012 (forthcoming).
"Postfeminism and the Celtic Tiger: Deirdre O'Kane's Television Roles." Viewpoints: Theoretical Perspectives on Irish Visual Texts. Eds. Claire Bracken and Emma Radley. Cork: Cork University Press, 2012. 157-171.
"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.