Zoë Van Cauwenberg

Zoë Van Cauwenberg (she/her) is a BAEF postdoctoral fellow in Irish Studies at Boston College and a research associate at the department of translation, interpreting and communication at Ghent University. Currently, she is researching female Irish antiquarians from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. She obtained a PhD in history from Ghent University and in literary studies from KU Leuven. This research (2020–2024) on the role of women in shaping Scottish and Irish histories during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century was funded by the FWO (Research Foundation–Flanders).She has presented and published on orality and history in the works of Anne Bannerman and Mary St John, Romantic and gothic connections in the lyrics of Taylor Swift and the gothic heroine in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Zoë recently co-edited a special issue of ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830 , 15.2 (2025), titled ‘Affective and Emotional Encounters in/with British Women’s Writing, 1600–1800’.