Color photo of Emily C Bloom, white woman with red hair inside a dimly lit space, slightly smiling and looking off into the distance, with sparkling lights behind her.

About

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

Her first book, The Wireless Past: Anglo-Irish Writers and the BBC, 1931-1968 (Oxford, 2016) examined 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.