Dr. Catherine Enwright

Catherine completed her PhD at Boston College. She focuses on twentieth century literature and her current book project focuses on connections between World War I literature and the Gothic tradition. She is interested in the relationship between literature and modern political and social crises and has taught courses, including: "Freshman Writing", "The Literature and Culture of the First World War", "War Literature", "Literature and Attention" and "Disaster Literature". She recently completed a year at the École Normale Superieure during AY '23-'24 as a pensionnaire étrangere. She is currently a postdoctoral research associate for the David Jones Digital Archive Painted Inscriptions Project with the Open University in the UK.

Beyond these specific interests, Catherine enjoys reading a wide range of authors and has presented on Dickens, Hemingway, Eliot, David Jones, and T.S. Eliot. She is also involved as an editor in a long-term digital humanities project with the David Jones Center and Cambridge University Digital Library to transcribe and encode David Jones' entire archive for public use. 

Outside of academic work, Catherine works with Boston Latin School students on writing for their college applications and is currently an adjunct projessor in the Boston College English Department. She has worked for the Center for Digital Innovation and Learning as an Instructional Design Assistant, where she created online graduate courses, and as a Consultant for the BC Collaborative Digital Projects Lab, where she helped faculty and students develop their own digital projects. 

Email: enwrighc@bc.edu