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Publications

Below is a list of my publications and conference presentations, and includes both academic work and fiction writing. My books can be purchased at the Bookstore link.

Academic Books:

 

Death and the Maiden: the Curious Relationship Between the Fear of the Feminine and the Fear of Death, Algora Publishing, 2019. 

 

Book Chapters:

 

“Black-Eyed Kids and the Child Archetype.” The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children: Essays on Anomalous Children from 1595 to the Present Day, Edited by Leo Ruickbie and Simon Bacon, Anthem Press, 2020, pp. 205-216.  

“Dionysus: the Bridge Between Ancient and Modern Conceptions of God in Western Religion.”  De Natura Fidei: Rethinking Religion across Disciplinary Boundaries, Edited by Jibu George, Scholars Press (India), 2022. 

“Cursed Objects: Representations of Tantric Magic in Gothic Literature.” The Gothique: Myriad Manifestations. Edited by Aparajita Hazra.

Articles and Online Discourse:

 “The Other Globalization and Fear of the Feminine: A Mythological View.” Metapsychosis : Journal of Consciousness, Culture and Planetary Thought, https://www.metapsychosis.com/the-other-globalization-and-fear-of-the-feminine/

“Vis Imaginativa: the Power of Imagination in the Theory of Magic and Its Relationship to the Jungian Collective Unconscious.” Metapsychosis : Journal of Consciousness, Culture and Planetary Thought, www.metapsychosis.com/vis-imaginativa-the-power-of-imagination-in-the-theory-of-magic-and-its-relationship-to-the-jungian-collective-unconscious/.

“The Mythology of Afterlife Beliefs and Their Impact on Religious Conflict, Part 1.” Religious Theory (Journal of Culture and Religion Theory), November 1, 2017, http://jcrt.org/religioustheory/2017/11/01/the-mythology-of-afterlife-beliefs-and-their-impact-on-religious-conflict-part-1-brigid-burke/
 

“The Mythology of Afterlife Beliefs and Their Impact on Religious Conflict, Part 2.” Religious Theory (Journal of Culture and Religion Theory), November 7, 2017, http://jcrt.org/religioustheory/2017/11/07/the-mythology-of-afterlife-beliefs-and-their-impact-on-religious-conflict-part-2-brigid-burke/

Conference Papers:

“The Mythology of Afterlife Beliefs and Their Impact on Religious Conflict” (presented at the Mid-Atlantic American Academy of Religion conference on March 16, 2012, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.)

“Poltergeist Phenomena and the Trickster Archetype” (presented at the Folklore Belief and Traditions of the Supernatural conference sponsored by Island Dynamics on March 30, 2014, Unst, Shetland Islands, UK)

“’A Marriage Without Eros’ : Jung’s Answer to Job and the Old Testament conception of the Feminine” (presented at the Mid-Atlantic American Academy of Religion conference on March 13, 2017. Winner of the Kate Connolly-Weinart Prize for Innovation in Religion related to Women’s Studies)

“The Lenaia: the Winter Festival of Dionysus in the Context of Greek Beliefs About Death and Afterlife” (Presented at the Winter Festivals and Traditions Conference, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University, March 25, 2017)

“Phantom Queen: Untangling the History of the Morrigan” (Magickal Women Conference, October 15, 2022, London) https://www.magickalwomenconference.com/brigid-burke-2022

Fiction Books

Archetype Possession: 11 Dark Tales. CreateSpace, 2018. 

Medb: a Novella. Chthonia Books, 2020.

Morrigan Timelines. Chthonia Books, 2020. 

Project Lethe. Chthonia Books, 2024. 

 

Regenerator. Chthonia Books, 2024. 

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