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Originally from Louisiana, Dr. Teekell's academic career took her to Memphis, TN; Dublin, Ireland; St. Louis, MO; and Cumberland Gap, TN, before her arrival at CNU in 2015. Her first book, /Emergency Writing: Irish Literature, Neutrality and the Second World War/, was published by Northwestern University Press in May 2018, and she spent the fall semester of that year as a faculty associate at the University of Glasgow, leading CNU in Scotland. She lives in Newport News with her husband, two sons, and enormous dog, Haggis.

In 2020, she created the interactive Irish Border Bibliography (bit.ly/irishborderbibliography / https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/960f0f42d0f2422eae9981c45662f4ed) with CNU English major Kazuki Johnstone and in 2021 she co-edited (with Tina O'Toole of the University of Limerick) a special issue on Elizabeth Bowen for the Irish University Review (https://www.euppublishing.com/toc/iur/current).

With the help of CNU Summer Scholar Zenith Nguon, Dr. Teekell is currently co-editing a critical edition of John McGahern's novel The Dark with Ellen Scheible of Bridgewater State University (under contract with Syracuse University Press) and preparing an MLA-contracted book on Teaching Modern Irish Poetry (co-edited with Guinn Batten of Washington University).

Dr. Teekell's newest publication is "The Room Where MacNeice Wrote 'Snow' and the Invention of Northern Irish Poetry" in Eire-Ireland (https://muse.jhu.edu/article/804419), and her chapter on “The Emergency’s Improbable Frequency in Contemporary Irish Culture” will appear this year in Routledge's Cultural Legacies of Neutral Europe. She serves as Series Editor for Anthem Press's series, Anthem Irish Studies: https://anthempress.com/anthem-irish-studies#:~:text=The%20Anthem%20Irish%20Studies%20series,with%20scholarship%20on%20Irish%20diasporas.

Future projects include a book called BorderLines: A Literary Atlas of the Irish Border.