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About Bridget English
I am a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago and co-convene the Irish Studies Scholarly Seminar at the Newberry Library. I am the author of Laying Out the Bones: Death and Dying in the Modern Irish Novel (Syracuse U.P. 2017) and have published on death, trauma, and illness in modern and contemporary Irish literature. My research interests lie in theories of the novel, modernism, and the medical humanities. I am currently working on a monograph titled, Self-Destructive Modernisms: Suicide, Medicine, and Failure in the Modernist Novel.
Brigid Wallace is a graduate student at Lehigh University. A historian of the French Atlantic world, my research explores how race, migration, revolution, and science shaped the lives of ordinary people during the Age of Revolutions. Her work traces the movement of people, plants, and ideas across the Atlantic, focusing on mixed-race families who fled Saint-Domingue during the Haitian Revolution and rebuilt their lives in Charleston, South Carolina. Her master's thesis, "Preservation of a Family: The Noisettes' Journey from Saint-Domingue to Charleston, 1794–1860," examines how one family navigated the political upheavals of the French, Haitian, and American Revolutions while preserving kinship networks across shifting racial and national boundaries. Through the story of the Noisette family, I investigate how migration transformed identities and how refugees carried not only memories and traditions but also scientific knowledge. Her work demonstrates that the history of revolution is not only a story of politics and war but also one of families, mobility, and the exchange of knowledge that reshaped the modern Atlantic world.
"You may encounter many obstacles, but you must not be defeated!" Maya Angelou
NBN Episodes hosted by Bridget:
March 27, 2023
Safety As We Watch
The discovery of anaesthesia which could be administered safely to eliminate the pain of surgery and other medical and dental procedures is widely con…
September 9, 2022
Theatre and Archival Memory
Drawing on newly released and digitized archival records, Houlihan’s Theatre and Archival Memory: Irish Drama and Marginalised Histories 1951-1977 (Pa…
May 24, 2022
Irish Writers and the Thirties
The theme of exile in Irish writing often calls to mind Joyce or Beckett, but rarely does it conjure up other writers or literary networks, particular…
March 25, 2022
About: Blank
The city of Dublin, with its ancient cobblestones, historic pubs, and legendary river Liffey, has been a source of inspiration for writers and poets f…