Faculty | SIU

Dr. Dougherty is a scholar of Irish women’s literature of the eighteenth-, nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. She teaches courses on Irish literature and culture, cultural studies, and composition. 

SCHOLARLY INTERESTS RELATING TO IRISH LITERATURE:

• Gender and maturation 
• Honor culture and modernity
• Women’s life writing
• Unnatural narrations
• Post-coloniality and feminist psychoanalytic theory
• Genre fiction and cultural studies
• Anti-Blackness

OTHER SCHOLARLY INTERESTS: 

• Octavia Butler and Black speculative fiction 
• Anti-racist pedagogy 
• Transnational and intersectional feminisms 
• Textual depictions of childhood and juvenile literature 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND WORK IN PROGRESS: 

Recently published: 

“Edna O’Brien and the Politics of Belatedness.”  The Oxford Handbook of Irish Fiction, ed. Liam Harte.  (Oxford University Press, 2020): 289-305. 

Work in Progress: 

Carmencita and The Bus of Dreams (children’s book). 

Mick and the Night Mare (children’s book) 

“Voice, Vision, Text: Teaching Eavan Boland’s ‘The Singers.’”  Essay in progress for MLA Options for Teaching Modern Irish Poetry, eds. Guinn Batten and Anna Teekell. 

“The Honor of Modernity: Castle Rackrent and the Honor Discourses of the Irish Enlightenment.”  Under consideration at Eighteenth-Century Life. 

Joyce’s Sisters: Narratives of Irish Female Maturation, 1916-2018 (book project). Under consideration at Edinburgh University Press.