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.

Bridget English is a scholar of Irish literature and culture, modernism, and health humanities, based at the University of Illinois Chicago. She co-convenes the Irish Studies Seminar at the Newberry Library. On Twitter.

NBN Episodes hosted by Bridget:

Declan Warde et al., "Safety As We Watch: Anaesthesia in Ireland 1847-1998" (Wordwell Books, 2022)

March 27, 2023

Safety As We Watch

Declan Warde, Joseph Tracey, and John Cahill
Hosted by Bridget English

The discovery of anaesthesia which could be administered safely to eliminate the pain of surgery and other medical and dental procedures is widely con…

Barry Houlihan, "Theatre and Archival Memory: Irish Drama and Marginalised Histories 1951-1977" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)

September 9, 2022

Theatre and Archival Memory

Barry Houlihan
Hosted by Bridget English

Drawing on newly released and digitized archival records, Houlihan’s Theatre and Archival Memory: Irish Drama and Marginalised Histories 1951-1977 (Pa…

Katrina Goldstone, "Irish Writers and the Thirties: Art, Exile and War" (Routledge, 2020)

May 24, 2022

Irish Writers and the Thirties

Katrina Goldstone
Hosted by Bridget English

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…

Adam Wyeth, "about:blank" (Salmon Poetry, 2021)

March 25, 2022

About: Blank

Adam Wyeth
Hosted by Bridget English

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…