Press & News

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Recent News

[July 27–29, 2026] Presentation, 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences Research in the Age of AI, University of Aizu, Japan. "The Unnamed and the Untrainable: Archival Anonymity, AI Training Data, and the Structural Erasure of Marginalized Voices."

[July 24–31, 2026] Presentation, Time Work: Debt, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Practice, Latvia. "'She Was Here as Long as Anybody Remembered': The Bean Feasa as Keeper of Time, Carrier of Debt, and Archive of the Living Dead."

[June 25–27, 2026] Presentation, Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Summer Salon. "Inventing St. Patrick's Day: Vernacular Tradition, American Consumer Culture, and the Making of an American Holiday."

[June 13, 2026] Presentation, Imaginative Landscapes and Otherworlds 2026: The Alterity of Deserts and Arid Environments. "Díseart: Sacred Desolation, Desert Theology, and the Irish Wilderness Imagination."

[May 29, 2026] Presentation, 39th Irish Conference of Medievalists, Dublin. "The Honor-Price of a Werwolf."

[May 23, 2026] Presentation, Negations and Interruptions as World-Building, University College Dublin. "Against the Attention Economy: Boredom, Embodiment, and the Lost Commons of Time."

[May 14, 2026] Presentation, Mythical Archipelagos: Islands, Narratives, and Imaginaries Across Cultures and Media, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. "Islands That Do Not Age: The Irish Otherworld Archipelago, Ecological Imagination, and More-Than-Human Temporality in the Immrama Tradition."

[May 8–10, 2026] Presentation, 3rd International Conference on Global Plant Humanities, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong. "The Grammar of Animacy and Sacred Tree Belief in the Irish National Folklore Collection."

[May 2026] Bone Citadel publishes, concluding the Tower & Crown trilogy.

[April 23–25, 2026] Presentation, (In-)Visible Wounds: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Discrimination and Violence. "Féar Gorta (Hungry Grass), Somatic Trauma, and the Botanical Encoding of Famine Memory in the Irish Folklore Tradition."

[April 20–21, 2026] Presentation, Home, Homecoming, Homesickness: International Emerging Scholars' Conference. "Roads to Nowhere: Famine Infrastructure, Landscape Scar, and the Unhomeliness of the Irish Midlands."

[Full conference and publication record on the Scholarship page.]

About

Kate Broderick is a folklorist, author, and visual artist whose research and creative work examine vernacular knowledge systems, Irish and medieval folk tradition, and the relationship between law, narrative, and cultural memory. She holds advanced degrees from Trinity College Dublin (M.Phil., Medieval Languages, Literature, and Culture), University College Cork (M.A., Irish Mythology and Folklore), William & Mary Law School (J.D.), and Florida Institute of Technology (M.S., Global Strategic Communication; B.A., Humanities, summa cum laude). Her current research focuses on wise women (bean feasa) tradition in the Schools' Collection of the Irish National Folklore Collection, the legal-narrative intersections of the Brehon corpus, and famine memory in vernacular Irish tradition.

Her fiction includes the Tower & Crown trilogy, the Riverswake duology, and The Deceptive Art of Logical Fallacies (a #1 Amazon New Release). Her paintings, held in private collections across three continents, draw on the same Irish, Slavic, and literary folk traditions that shape her scholarship. She is the founder of Moon River Café & Curiosities in Melbourne, Florida, where she develops public humanities programming alongside the café's everyday work. Doctoral study begins September 2027.

Bios in additional lengths (50-word, 150-word, 300-word) are available below.

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Scholarly topics

  • Irish mythology, folklore, and the bean feasa tradition

  • Brehon law and the legal-narrative imagination of early medieval Ireland

  • Famine memory, landscape, and the botanical encoding of trauma in Irish vernacular tradition

  • The Schools' Collection and the politics of folk archives

  • Archival anonymity, AI training data, and the structural erasure of marginalized voices

  • The Irish Otherworld and ecological imagination in the Immrama tradition

Creative practice and public humanities

  • Writing fantasy that takes its source folklore seriously

  • The relationship between scholarly research and narrative fiction

  • Independent publishing and the contemporary fantasy market

  • Building public humanities infrastructure outside the academy

  • Visual art and folkloric subject matter

Other areas

  • The path from corporate law to folklore studies

  • Space Coast arts and culture

  • Small-business founding and the café-as-third-place

Selected Coverage

Scholarly and Academic

Florida Tech News — Humanities Alumna Turns Passion for Problem-Solving into Law Career. news.fit.edu →

Books and Creative Work

Coming soon: trade and reader-press coverage of the Tower & Crown trilogy and the Riverswake duology.

Public Humanities and Community

Florida Today: Moon River Café ranked #1 Coffee House in Brevard County. floridatoday.com →

Florida Today: A song, a vision: Mom and daughter prep to add Moon River Cafe to Melbourne arts scene. floridatoday.com →

Everything Brevard: New Melbourne Café Features Art, Poetry, Creative Connections. everythingbrevard.com →

Crimson (Florida Tech): Moon River Cafe — A local inspiration from Breakfast at Tiffany's. crimson.fit.edu →

OrlandoVoyager” Rising Stars: Meet Kate Broderick of Melbourne. orlandovoyager.com →

Downloadable Assets

Press bios (Word and PDF)

  • 50-word bio

  • 150-word bio

  • 300-word bio

  • Full press bio (one page)

Curriculum vitae (PDF) academic CV with full publication, presentation, and research record.

Author photos (high-resolution, print-ready)

Book covers and artwork (high-resolution)” Ghost Flower, Gorgon Crown, Bone Citadel, The Book of Raziel, The Hall of Mirrors, The Deceptive Art of Logical Fallacies. Selected paintings available on request.

Logos: Moon River Café & Curiosities, where applicable to coverage.

Speaking and Interview Inquiries

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