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Bridget English is a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on Irish literature and culture, theories of the novel, modernism, and the medical humanities. She earned her PhD from Maynooth University in Ireland.
Her monograph Laying Out the Bones: Death and Dying in the Modern Irish Novel (Syracuse U.P., 2017) explores how Irish wake and funeral rituals influence novelistic discourse, linking mortality to Ireland’s cultural history. Currently, she is working on a second book project, Self-Destructive Modernisms: Suicide, Medicine, and Failure in the Modernist Novel.
Dr. English teaches courses such as First-Year Writing, Feminism, Postmodern Literature, Twentieth-Century Irish Literature, and Literary Theory. She also co-convenes the Irish Studies Scholarly Seminar at the Newberry Library. Her writings have appeared in The Dublin Review of Books, The Irish Times, The Irish Studies Review, and other journals, alongside contributions to edited collections.
