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Meet the Editors!
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Dr. Anna Teekell
Associate Professor
Christopher Newport University
Originally from Louisiana, Dr. Teekell's academic career took her to Memphis, TN; Dublin, Ireland; St. Louis, MO; and Cumberland Gap, TN, before her arrival at CNU in 2015. Her first book, Emergency Writing: Irish Literature, Neutrality and the Second World War, was published by Northwestern University Press in May 2018, and she spent the fall semester of that year as a faculty associate at the University of Glasgow, leading CNU in Scotland. She lives in Newport News with her husband, two sons, and enormous dog, Haggis.
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In 2020, she created the interactive Irish Border Bibliography (bit.ly/irishborderbibliography / https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/960f0f42d0f2422eae9981c45662f4ed) with CNU English major Kazuki Johnstone and in 2021 she co-edited (with Tina O'Toole of the University of Limerick) a special issue on Elizabeth Bowen for the Irish University Review (https://www.euppublishing.com/toc/iur/current).
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With the help of CNU Summer Scholar Zenith Nguon, Dr. Teekell is currently co-editing a critical edition of John McGahern's novel The Dark with Ellen Scheible of Bridgewater State University (under contract with Syracuse University Press) and preparing an MLA-contracted book on Teaching Modern Irish Poetry (co-edited with Guinn Batten of Washington University).
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Dr. Teekell's newest publication is "The Room Where MacNeice Wrote 'Snow' and the Invention of Northern Irish Poetry" in Eire-Ireland (https://muse.jhu.edu/article/804419), and her chapter on “The Emergency’s Improbable Frequency in Contemporary Irish Culture” will appear this year in Routledge's Cultural Legacies of Neutral Europe. She serves as Series Editor for Anthem Press's series, Anthem Irish Studies: https://anthempress.com/anthem-irish-studies#:~:text=The%20Anthem%20Irish%20Studies%20series,with%20scholarship%20on%20Irish%20diasporas.
Future projects include a book called BorderLines: A Literary Atlas of the Irish Border.
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Faculty Page: https://cnu.edu/people/annateekell/
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Dr. Ellen Scheible
Professor of English, Director of Honors Program
Bridgewater State University
Dr. Scheible's research interests include Irish Studies, British and Irish modernism, modern gothic fiction, and the postcolonial body. In her current work, Dr. Scheible explores representations of gender and sexuality within the discourses of the domestic interior and the body in Irish fiction. She also writes about non-reproduction and the maternal body in contemporary Irish writing and the influence of the gothic tradition on modern subjectivity.
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Dr. Scheible held a Presidential Research Fellowship at Bridgewater State University in 2022-23 and a Maddock Research Fellowship at Marsh’s Library in Dublin, Ireland in spring 2023. She was a Moore Institute Visiting Fellow at the National University of Ireland Galway (2016) and was awarded a Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship to support research in Dublin (2014). She is the co-director of the BSU Honors Program and the coordinator of the Bridgewater State University Irish Studies Program.
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Her current projects include Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women's Fiction: The Literary Legacy of Mother Ireland, a monograph under contract with Bloomsbury's Global Women's Writing Series; The Dark: A Critical Edition, a new edition of John McGahern’s novel, coedited with Anna Teekell (Syracuse UP); Teaching James Joyce in the 21st Century (University Press of Florida) and Sally Rooney: Perspectives and Approaches, both coedited with Barry Devine (Bucknell UP). She recently published “Gothic Studies Today,” a special issue of the Irish University Review, coedited with Christina Morin. Her work has appeared in various journals including New Hibernia Review, James Joyce Quarterly, Criticism, and Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature. She is coeditor, with Claire Culleton, of Rethinking Joyce’s Dubliners (Palgrave 2017).
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Faculty Page: https://www.bridgew.edu/department/english/ellen-scheible
The Dark: A Critical Edition
The Dark: A Critical Edition will be a text aimed at undergraduates, graduates, educators, and scholars focused around Irish Studies. The critical text will contain critical essays, glossary, biography, bibliography, manuscript facsimiles, and explanatory notes throughout the text. This edition hopes to provide pedagogical approaches to teaching a novel that invokes culturally sensitive responses.
The Dark by John McGahern is a canonical text within Irish Studies because it explores the different ways trauma, Irish modernity, and the discourses of gender and sexuality become metaphors for the Irish nation. It hopes to reveal how both the Catholic Church and Irish government policed the bodies and cultural expression of modern Ireland. The critical text will provide historical context and showcase the myriad of way these culturally sensitive topics can be discussed. Additionally, this edition will make the text more accessible for students and educators within the United State because it has recently gone out of print.