Claire Bracken

Publications

Bracken’s publications focus on Irish culture, postfeminism, feminist criticism, and women’s writing.

Book

Bracken, Claire and Bracken, Claire and Renée Fox. Section Eds. Irish Women’s Writing and Genre. Routledge Companion on Irish Women’s Writing. Routledge. Forthcoming, 2027.

Irish Feminist Futures. London: Routledge, 2016. Part of the Transformations Series.

Edited Publications

Bracken, Claire and Cara Delay, Eds, Special issue: "Reproductive Justice and the Politics of Women's Health in Ireland," Éire Ireland 35: 3-4 (Fall/Winter 2021).

Bracken, Claire and Tara Harney-Mahajan. Eds. Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland and Contemporary Women’s Writing Feminist Interventions and Imaginings. London: Routledge, 2021.

Bracken, Claire and Emma Radley. Eds. Viewpoints: Theoretical Perspectives on Irish Visual Texts. Cork: Cork University Press, 2013.

Bracken, Claire and Susan Cahill. Eds. Anne Enright. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2011.

Journal Articles

“Read a Dirty Book: James Joyce, Samuel Steward and the Orientations of Literary Rebellion,” co-written with Laurel Harris and Marissa Stinson, online Orientations series, Modernism/Modernity, Nov. 2025.

“Editors’ Introduction: Women’s Health and Reproductive Justice in Ireland.” Éire Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies 56: 3&4 (2021): 5-20.

“Vanishing Presences: Women and Violence in ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen'.” International Yeats Studies, 4.1 (2020).

“A Continuum of Irish Women’s Writing: Reflections on the Post-Tiger Era.” Co-written with Tara Harney-Mahajan. LIT 28.1 (2017): 1-12.

“A Continuum of Irish Women’s Writing II: Reflections on the Post-Tiger Era.” Co-written with Tara Harney-Mahajan. LIT 28.2 (2017): 97-114.

“Psychoanalysis in Irish Studies: An Interview with Claire Bracken.” Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies. Special Issue: Ireland in Psychoanalysis. (2017) https://breac.nd.edu/articles/psychoanalysis-in-irish-studies-an-interview-with-claire-bracken/

“Nomadic Ethics: Gender and Class in Catherine Walsh’s City West.” Irish University Review. 46.1 (2016): 75-88.

“Grounded Futurity: On Lisa Baraitser’s Maternal Encounters." Studies in Gender and Sexuality. 13.2 (2012): 80-84.

“Queer Intersections and Nomadic Routes: Anne Enright’s The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch.” Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 36.1 (2010):109-127.

Book Chapters

"The Reproductive Technology of the 'Widening Gyre': An Obstetric Reading of 'The Second Coming.'” The New Yeats Studies. Ed. Gregory Castle. Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming, 2026.

“Foreword.” Sally Rooney: Perspectives and Approaches. Eds Ellen Scheible and Barry Devine. Bucknell University Press. Forthcoming, 2026.

"Laundering Complicity: Experimental Drama and the Temporalities of Shame." Irish Shame: A Literary Reckoning. Edinburgh University Press, April 2025.

“Alienated Subjects: Post-Feminist Control and Contemporary Irish Femininity.” Reading Gender and Space: Essays for Patricia Coughlan. Eds. Anne Fogarty and Tina O’Toole. Cork University Press, 2023. 259-274.

“A Continuum of Women’s Writing: Reflections on the Post-Celtic Tiger Era.” Co-written with Tara Harney-Mahajan. Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland and Contemporary Women’s Writing Feminist Interventions and Imaginings. Routledge, 2021. 1-26.

“The Feminist Contemporary: The Contradictions of Critique.” The New Irish Studies. Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp. 144-160, https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108564205.009.

"Gender and Irish Studies: 2008 to the present." The Routledge International Handbook of Irish Studies. Routledge, 2020.

“Post-Feminism and the Celtic Tiger: Deirdre O’Kane’s Television Roles.” Viewpoints: Theoretical Perspectives on Irish Visual Texts. Eds. Claire Bracken and Emma Radley. Cork University Press, 2013. 157-171.

“Introduction”. Co-written with Emma Radley. Viewpoints. 1-10.

“An Irish Feminist GenX Aesthetic: Televisual Memories in Anne Enright’s The Wig My Father Wore.” Generation X Goes Global. ed. Christine Henseler. New York: Routledge, 2013. 159-178.

“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.

“Interview with Anne Enright”. With Susan Cahill. Anne Enright. 13-32.

“Introduction”. Co-written with Susan Cahill. Anne Enright. 1-12.

“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. Borbála Faragó and Moynagh Sullivan. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. 204-219.

“Putting a Mirror up to Irishness: Hollywood Hardmen 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.