Department of English

My work engages with a wide archive of mostly discredited cultural texts, including non-canonical 19th-century transatlantic women’s literature and contemporary media, specifically literature, film, and television. As it relates to these texts I have particular interest in how the identity is discursively gendered, constructed, and embodied through written and mediated means, as well as how gender, sex, sexuality, race, and class work together to inform notions of the “normative” self. Celebrity, masculinity, and American religious cultures have become important themes offering a framework for coherency across the many modalities in which I work.