Writing

Essays and articles by Emily C. Bloom explore questions of care, technology, and disability.

 Care

Mothering and other forms of caregiving are the subject of Emily C. Bloom’s forthcoming book, I Cannot Control Everything Forever, as well as other published work.

“What Pearl S. Buck’s Memoir Can Teach Parents of Disabled Children” for Lit Hub describes the impact and fraught legacy of The Child Who Never Grew (1950).

“Mother of a Pandemic” for Public Books reviews Emma Donoghue’s The Pull of the Stars in the context of pandemic parenting.

Along with Laura Hartmann-Villalta, Bloom is co-editing a cluster of essays on “Caregiving, Precarity, Covid” for Modernism/modernity’s Print Plus Edition (forthcoming).

 Technology

Since writing a doctoral dissertation on radio broadcasting and Irish modernism, Emily C. Bloom has continued to examine radio and sound technologies and, more recently, turned her attention to bioethics and reproductive technologies.

Bloom has written about the radio broadcasting careers of Samuel Beckett, W.B. Yeats, H.G. Wells, and George Orwell in several academic and popular publications:

• The Irish Times, “BBC Rejected Waiting for Godot as Too Irish”

• Eire-Ireland, “Yeats’s Radiogenic Poetry: Oral Traditions and Auditory Public”; “Channel Paddlers: 1950s Irish Drama on the British Airwaves”

• International Yeats Studies, “Broadcasting the Rising: Yeats and Radio Commemoration”

• Texas Studies in Language and Literature, “The Protestant Thing to Do’: Anglo-Irish Performance in James Joyce’s Dubliners and Samuel Beckett’s All That Fall”

• The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell , “Orwell the Broadcaster” (forthcoming)

• The Oxford Handbook of H.G. Wells, “H.G. Wells and Radio” (forthcoming)

In contributions to book-length edited collections, Bloom has examined literary criticism on the air (in The Critic as Amateur) and discussed the role of the telephone in the 1916 Irish Rising (in Irish Literature in Transition).

 Disability

Emily C. Bloom’s earliest intellectual and political commitments have centered around disability, and the subject repeatedly appears in her research and writing.

Bloom has written about the Irish playwright Teresa Deevy, “Looking In: Teresa Deevy, Deafness, and Radio” for Modernism/modernity. She has written about representations of blindness and radio for the Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology. And in recent work Bloom explores the biographies of artists with intellectually disabled siblings, including Louis MacNeice, Jane Austen, and Joseph Cornell.