Bridget English

Bridget English is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Laying Out the Bones: Death and Dying in the Modern Irish Novel (Syracuse U.P. 2017) and several chapters and articles. Her current book project, Self-Destructive Modernisms: Suicide, Failure, and Institutions of Care examines the relationship between Irish and American medical and psychiatric institutions and acts of self-destruction in the twentieth-century modernist novel, thus...See more

Bridget English is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Laying Out the Bones: Death and Dying in the Modern Irish Novel (Syracuse U.P. 2017) and several chapters and articles. Her current book project, Self-Destructive Modernisms: Suicide, Failure, and Institutions of Care examines the relationship between Irish and American medical and psychiatric institutions and acts of self-destruction in the twentieth-century modernist novel, thus establishing a mutually informing connection between literary and medical narratives and exposing the implicit biases that underlie modern psychiatry. See less