Annabel Barry is a PhD student in English at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is supported by the Mellon-Berkeley Fellowship and the R. Kirk Underhill Fellowship. She is co-editor-in-chief of Qui Parle, a journal of critical theory. She studied Philosophy and Literature at University College Dublin. Prior to that, she graduated from Princeton University where she received the Moses Taylor Pyne Prize, the highest honor bestowed upon an undergraduate for scholarship, leadership, and service. A believer in the political power of literature, she currently researches feminist philosophies of ordinary language as they emerge within Irish women's novels from the eighteenth century to the present. She has published an academic article in the Keats-Shelley Review and written publicly about contemporary Irish literature for venues including the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Chicago Review of Books, Post45: Contemporaries, and The Common. In summer 2023, she will conduct research at the University of Notre Dame as a recipient of the Keough-Naughton Award in Irish Studies.