Bridget Keown is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh, and is the head of the Gender and Science Initiative. She earned her PhD in history at Northeastern University, where her research focused on the experience and treatment of war-related trauma among British and Irish women during the First World War and Irish War of Independence. She has written blogs on this research for the American Historical Association and Lady Science, and is a contributing writer for Nursing Clio. She is also a member of the University of Pittsburgh's Horror Studies Working Group, and organizes the HSWG's annual Queer Horror Week events. She has written and presented on the gendered representations and depictions of trauma in horror. In 2023, she became a co-organizer of the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference at StokerCon.