Bailey Flannery

Bailey Flannery is a sixth-year doctoral candidate in English Language & Literature whose work centers publicly engaged storytelling to address eco-political crisis. Her projects range from Playing in Dark Waters: Telling Tales at the End of the World, Then and Now, a comparative study of late Middle English and contemporary American media depictions of cataclysmic flood; to the podcasts Detroit River Stories and Getting Medieval Lit (forthcoming spring 2026), the latter of which she began developing through the Modern Language Association’s Public Humanities Incubator; to her published article, "'Between the paws of a tender wolf' : Medieval Influences and Other Tales (Un)Told in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber" (2025). Since 2024, she has also served as the Michigan Quarterly Review's Nonfiction Editor.