Claire Bracken

Publications

Monograph

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

Edited Books and Special Issues

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.

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles and 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, 2026.

"Laundering Complicity: Experimental Drama and the Temporalities of Shame." Irish Shame: A Literary Reckoning. ed. Séan Kennedy and Joseph Valente. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.

“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, 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.

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

“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.

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

“The Feminist Contemporary: The Contradictions of Critique.” The New Irish Studies. Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp. 144-160.

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

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

“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. Routledge, 2013. 159-178.

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

“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.

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

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

“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, and Moynagh Sullivan. 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.

In Progress

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

Double Special Issue: “The Anger Issue: Women’s Writing and Anger in Ireland.” Vols. I & II. LIT. Eds. Abby Bender and Claire Bracken. Forthcoming, 2027.

Enright in Context. Eds. Kersti Powell, Claire Bracken, and Mary McGlynn. Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming, 2028.

Interviews

“Psychoanalysis in Irish Studies: An Interview with Claire Bracken.” Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies. Special Issue: Ireland in Psychoanalysis. (2017)

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