Ellen Scheible is Professor of English and Director of the Honors Program at Bridgewater State University. Her research interests include Irish Studies, British modernism, modern gothic fiction, the domestic interior, and the postcolonial body. In her current work, Dr. Scheible explores representations of gender and sexuality within the discourse of homes and homelessness in Irish fiction, the role of homemaking in configurations of the nation in twentieth-century writing, and the influence of the gothic tradition on modern subjectivity.

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.

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).