2024 Bellet Teaching Award winner, co-chair of the University Senate Equality Inclusion and Anti-Discrimination Advocacy Committee, and Teaching Assistant Professor in the Dietrich School’s Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Gender Studies program are just a few of the titles Bridget Keown holds.
Keown received her BA in History and Russian Language & Literature from Smith College, her MA in Imperial and Commonwealth History from King’s College London, and her PhD in history at Northeastern University. While at Northeastern she focused her research on the experience and treatment of war-related trauma among British and Irish women during World War I and on the construction of history through trauma. She has written many blogs on these research topics for the American Historical Association and Lady Science. Additionally, she is a contributing writer for Nursing Clio.
Keown has also centered her research on the relationship between gay and lesbian people during the AIDS epidemic in both the United States and Ireland; the history of emotions; the history of medicine, gender and the horror genre; and the postcolonial queer theory and performance.
She currently serves as a co-chair of the Gender and Memory Working Group of the Memory Studies Association.