Emily Brennan-Moran
Biographic Data
| ID | 6609933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Brennan-Moran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily |
| FAMILY NAME | Brennan-Moran |
| SIGNATURE | BRENNAN-MORAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Out past metonymy in the New Jewish Cemetery, Lublin
This essay engages performative writing to enact a scene of metonymic remembering in the New Jewish Cemetery, Lublin on the Catholic Feast of Corpus Christi. In 2019, I traveled to Poland to write about empty shoes, metonymy, and Holocaust memory and found myself caught off guard by a destroyed pre-war Jewish cemetery. This essay traces my excessive, defamiliarized remembering as I spun out past metonymy and back again, grappling with remembering…
Ghosted (I went looking for a haunting)
I went looking for a haunting in a spectral scene woven through a book and a bench: Toni Morrison’s Beloved, and the Toni Morrison Society’s Bench By the Road in Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina. This essay is about the ghosts I did not see when I sat on the bench and sought their absent presence. I went looking for a haunting, but the ghost didn’t come until later, when I stopped looking and went home to write. I seek (futilely) to recapture th…
Ghosted (I went looking for a haunting)
I went looking for a haunting in a spectral scene woven through a book and a bench: Toni Morrison’s Beloved, and the Toni Morrison Society’s Bench By the Road in Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina. This essay is about the ghosts I did not see when I sat on the bench and sought their absent presence. I went looking for a haunting, but the ghost didn’t come until later, when I stopped looking and went home to write. I seek (futilely) to recapture th…
Ghosted (I went looking for a haunting)
I went looking for a haunting in a spectral scene woven through a book and a bench: Toni Morrison’s Beloved, and the Toni Morrison Society’s Bench By the Road in Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina. This essay is about the ghosts I did not see when I sat on the bench and sought their absent presence. I went looking for a haunting, but the ghost didn’t come until later, when I stopped looking and went home to write. I seek (futilely) to recapture th…
Out past metonymy in the New Jewish Cemetery, Lublin
This essay engages performative writing to enact a scene of metonymic remembering in the New Jewish Cemetery, Lublin on the Catholic Feast of Corpus Christi. In 2019, I traveled to Poland to write about empty shoes, metonymy, and Holocaust memory and found myself caught off guard by a destroyed pre-war Jewish cemetery. This essay traces my excessive, defamiliarized remembering as I spun out past metonymy and back again, grappling with remembering…
Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (1 work) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (1 work) · Judaism (1 work) · Linguistics (1 work)