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ABIGAIL L. PALKO, PH.D.

Articles &
Book Chapters

“The Maternal Maleficent.”
Monstrous Mothers: Troubling Tropes.
Eds. Abigail L. Palko and Andrea O’Reilly.
​Toronto: Demeter Press, 2021.  
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​“Monstrous Mothers.”
Maternal Theory: Essential Readings, second edition.
Ed.  Andrea O’Reilly.
Demeter Press, 2021. 
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“Emma Donaghue.”
Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literature.
​Wiley Blackwell, 2020. 
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​“There is No Surviving Without Thriving.” 
Feminist Responses to the Neoliberalization of the University: From Surviving to Thriving.
Eds. Abby Palko, Sonalini Sapra, and Jamie Wagman.
​Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020. 
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​“(Breast)Milking the Situation: Other Mothering and Wet Nursing in Sherley Anne Williams’ Dessa Rose.”
Cultural Representations of Breastfeeding.
Eds. Ann Marie Alfonso Short, Abigail L. Palko, and Dionne Bremyer.
​Toronto, Canada:  Demeter P, 2018.
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“Abortion Politics in Edna O’Brien’s Down by the River.”
Mothers, Mothering, and Globalization.
Eds. Dorsía Silva-Smith, Laila Malik, and Abigail L. Palko.
​Toronto: Demeter P, 2017. 163-82.
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“Emma Donoghue, in conversation with Abby Palko.” 
Gender, Sexuality and Intersectionality in Irish Studies. Special issue of Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies.
Eds. Moynagh Sullivan, Sinead Kennedy, and Abigail L. Palko. 6 (2016).
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“Queer Seductions of the Maternal in
​Dorothy Macardle’s Earth-bound.”
Irish University Review. 46.2 (November 2016): 287-308.
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“A Triography of Polymaternity: Becoming Mamas to Triplets.”
On Mothering Multiples: Complexities and Possibilities. Ed. Kathy Mantas. Toronto: Demeter P. 2016. 86-103.
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“‘No mother nor nothing to me’:
​Excavating the Maternal Figure in Kissing the Witch.”
Irish women’s writing and experience. Special issue of Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
Eds. Brian F. McCabe and Jaji H.C. Hammer. 44.7 (October-November 2015): 917-39.
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“Finding a Daughter: Gisèle Pineau’s L’espérance macadam (Macadam Dreams).”
Reading/Speaking/Writing the Mother Text: Essays on Caribbean Women's Writing.
Eds. Cristina Herrera and Paula Sanmartín.
​Toronto: Demeter P., 2015. 17-36.
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“Patricia Hill Collins as Pedagogical Mother.” 
Patricia Hill Collins: Reconceiving Motherhood. 
Ed. Kaila Adia Story.
​Toronto: Demeter P, 2014. 33-48.
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 “Triangulating Identity: The Afro-Irish Caribbean Act of Union in Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl.” 
Where Motley is Worn: Transnational Irish Literatures.
Ed. Amanda Tucker and 
Moira Casey.
​Cork: Cork UP, 2014. 65-82.
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“Colonial Modernism’s Thwarted Maternity:
Elizabeth Bowen’s The House in Paris and
Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark.”
Elizabeth Bowen and Textual Modernity.
​Spec. issue of Textual Practice.
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Eds. Pamela Thurschwell and Siân White.
​27.1 (January 2013): 89-108.
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“Taking Back the Streets, Helping Victims Heal:
​‘Mothers In Charge’ in Philadelphia.”
 The 21st Century Motherhood Movement: Mothers Speak Out on Why We Need to Change the World and How to Do It.
Ed. Andrea O’Reilly. Toronto: Demeter P, 2011. 538-46.
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“From The Uninvited to The Visitor: 
​Irish Women Respond to Independence.”
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 31.2 (Fall 2010): 1-34.
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 “Out of Home in the Kitchen:
​Maeve Brennan’s Herbert’s Retreat Stories.”
The New Hibernia Review 11.4 (Winter 2007): 73-91.
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    • Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature
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    • Great pedagogical resource for those teaching courses in Motherhood Studies
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