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About

Emily C. Bloom is a writer and scholar currently working on a memoir about the science and technology of modern motherhood.

Her debut memoir, I Cannot Control Everything Forever: A Memoir of Motherhood, Science, and Art was published with St. Martin’s Press in 2024. Her first book, The Wireless Past: Anglo-Irish Writers and the BBC, 1931-1968 (Oxford, 2016) examines the role of public broadcasting in shaping twentieth-century literature. Her articles have appeared in Public Books, Eire-Ireland, The Irish Times, and elsewhere.

She is currently a Public Humanities Fellow at Sarah Lawrence College where she teaches classes on literature, care work, and disability for undergraduates and seniors in assisted living.