Emily Bloom
Mellon Public Humanities Fellow, Sarah Lawrence College
Emily Bloom is a Mellon Public Humanities Fellow at Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of The Wireless Past: Anglo-Irish Writers and the BBC, 1931-1968 (Oxford University Press, 2016), which was awarded the First Book Prize by the Modernist Studies Association. Her current work explores the interrelations between disability, media, technology, gender, and literature. She has contributed chapters to The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology, Irish Literature in Transition (Cambridge UP), and The Critic as Amateur (Bloomsbury) and has published articles in The Irish Times, International Yeats Studies, Éire-Ireland, and Texas Studies in Literature and Language. Her review essay, “Mother of a Pandemic,” on motherhood, pandemics, and the gothic appeared in Public Books in January 2021. Dr. Bloom is currently at work on a work of narrative non-fiction about motherhood and technology.
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