Maureen Ruprecht Fadem

Maureen Ruprecht Fadem (she/her) is Professor of English at CUNY-Kingsborough and a postcolonial and gender studies scholar. She works on Ireland, primarily the North, and on the literatures of partition: historical texts representing the geopolitical (non)solution and that illustrate its imperialist, (neo)colonialist, carceral, and (racial)capitalist designs. She looks at the poetics of conflict, trauma, and silence, at political justice, especially longue durée forms often called “reparations,” and at social justice of race and gender. Her monograph Silence and Articulacy in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian appeared in 2020; in 2021, Maureen published two books: Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved’: The Case for Reparations and a co-edited collection, The Economics of Empire. She has recent Op Eds in Inside Higher Ed and an article, “Architecting the Carceral State” on radical deployments of the fragment in Walter Benjamin and Medbh McGuckian (2021). Maureen is working on two books—the edited collection Imperial Debt (Liverpool UP, 2024) and a (new) Routledge Companion to Toni Morrison (2025)—and two articles, one a comparative look at the circuitous, snowy epistemology of empire in Joyce’s “The Dead,” the other reading Mandel’s Station Eleven as a partition narrative signaling the end of capital.