Jane Elizabeth Dougherty
Professor
dohugany@siu.edu
618-453-6843
Faner 2262
English, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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.
- Joyce’s Sisters: Narratives of Irish Female Development, 1916-2018 (monograph). Edinburgh University Press, 2024
- Reviewed in ABEI: The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies, Estudios Irlandases, Irish Studies Review, RISE: Review of Irish Studies in Europe.
- “´The struggle was not his struggle nor the words’: Textual, Intratextual, and Extratextual Narration and Denarration of The Dark.” Forthcoming in The John McGahern Companion, eds. Kathleen Costello-Sullivan, Derek Hand, Barry Houlihan, and Eamon Maher. Reimagining Ireland series, Peter Lang Publishers, 2026.
- “Voice, Vision, Text: Teaching Eavan Boland’s ‘The Singers.’” Forthcoming in MLA Options for Teaching Modern Irish Poetry, eds. Guinn Batten and Anna Teekell.
- “Anti-Blackness and Irish Female Maturation in Melatu Uche Okorie’s ‘Under the Awning.’” LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 36.4 (2025): 409-421.
- “The Honor of Modernity: Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent, and Discourses of Honor in Enlightenment Ireland.” Eighteenth-Century Life 49.2 (Spring 2025): 33-57.
Work in Progress:
- "The Table is Really a Piano: Strange Narrative Space in 'The Dead."
- Honor and Race in Modern Irish Literature and Culture (monograph).