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