Jacqueline Vaught Brogan is a Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Notre Dame and an author, poet, and critic of 20th and 21st century American literature. After starting her career as a professor at the University of Hawaii, she began teaching English at the University of Notre Dame in 1986. She was tenured in 1989 and promoted to Full Professor in 1992.

Brogan taught a range of English courses at Notre Dame, including American Literary Traditions, Radical Disruptions, Everybody's Shakespeare, and Introduction to Linguistics. She taught courses on Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time and comparing Hemingway's works to those of Alice Walker and Søren Kierkegaard. She was the first to introduce works by African American authors into American Literature courses at Notre Dame.

In 1977 she married Terry V. F. Brogan (1951-2010), a fellow English professor and editor of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Together they had two children, Jessica and Evan.

As a literary critic, Brogan's main authors of interest include Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, and Ernest Hemingway. She is the author of several books on American poetry, aesthetics, and language theory, as well as a widely-published poet.

Brogan had an active role in the Notre Dame Faculty Senate, where she served a term as president and chaired the first Committee on the Status of Women. She retired from the University of Notre Dame with Emeritus status in 2011.