Member SharonMGallagher(she/her)

Book in Progress: The story of 19th century American poet and editor, Sumner Lincoln Fairfield which focuses on the 3 generations of women in his family: Lucy Lincoln Fairfield (mother), Jane Frazee Fairfield (wife), Genevieve Genevra Fairfield (oldest daughter), and Gertrude Lincoln Fairfield de Vingut Barret (youngest daughter)

Author of:

Book: The Irish Vampire From Folklore to the Imaginations of Charles Robert Maturin, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, and Bram Stoker. McFarland, 2017.

Dissertation: Three Nineteenth Century Irish Novelists, Their Gothic Myth, and National Literature: Charles Robert Maturin, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, and Bram Stoker. ProQuest, 2004. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses. ISBN: 978-0-496-67256-1.

Book Chapter: “The Moon and Vampire Mythology and Folklore; Or, Lunar Influences in Varney the Vampire’s Bannerworth Storyline”, Lunar Gothic: The Influence of the Moon on the Gothic Imagination. Eds. Elana Gomel and Simon Bacon. Palgrave Gothic Series, Palgrave Macmillan. Aug. 2025. Pgs. 29-43.

Articles: Pflueger, Ruth, Robert Weissbach, and Sharon Gallagher. “Strengthening Technical Writing Knowledge Transfer Through Targeted Study in a First-Year Composition Course.” 6th Research in Engineering Education Symposium: Translating Research into Practice, REES 2015. 2015. Compendex.

“Violence in Verse: The Death Toll in Irish Poetry,” in English Association of the Pennsylvania Universities (EAPSU) Conference Proceedings, 1996, Fall 1996: 55-59.

“Yeats’ Red Hanrahan: The Old Traditions in a New Hero for an Emerging Nation,” in Pennsylvania English vol. 17 no. 1 Fall/Winter 1992: 33-40.

I have been teaching a variety of writing and literature courses in higher education for over 30 years. In addition to my publications, I regularly present at conferences on my range of research interests: genealogy; Irish mythology, folklore, and 19th century literature; pedagogy (teaching writing, interdisciplinary teaching, comparative literature), vampires, and the Fairfield women.