# Advisees ***former students***: [***Sarah Wagner-McCoy***](http://academic.reed.edu/english/faculty/index.html), PhD 2011, assistant professor of English and Humanities at Reed College *fields*: 19th- and 20th-century US fiction; trans-Atlanticism; Irish literature; literature and the environment *dissertation title*: "Trans-Atlantic Pastoral and the Realist Novel" *dissertation committee*: Lawrence Buell (chair), Amanda Claybaugh, Leah Price, Werner Sollors *publications*: "Virginilian Chesnutt: Southern Ecologues and Northern Georgics in the *Conjure Tales*," *ELH* (spring 2013). ***Lesley*** ***Goodman**,* PhD 2013, assistant professor of English at Albright College *fields*: 19th-century British literature; theories of reading; narrative theory *dissertation title*: "Indignant Reading" *dissertation committee*: Amanda Claybaugh, Leah Price (chair), Elaine Scarry *publications*: "[Disappointing Fans: Fandom, Fictional Theory, and the Death of the Author,](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpcu.12223/abstract)" *Journal of Popular Culture* (March 2015) "[Rebellious Identification, or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Arabella](http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/nar/summary/v018/18.2.goodman.html)," *Narrative* 18.2 (May 2010) [***Liz Maynes-Aminzade***](http://lizmaynesaminzade.weebly.com/), PhD 2013, digital strategist for *Public Books* *fields*: Victorian literature; the novel and narrative theory; history of the book *dissertation title*: "Macro-Realism: Social Complexity, Complicity, and Narrative Scope" *dissertation committee*: Amanda Claybaugh, Caroline Levine, Louis Menand, Leah Price (chair) *publications*: "The Omnicompetent Narrator from George Eliot to Jonathan Franzen," *Studies in the Novel* 46:2 (Summer 2014) "You're Part of Something Bigger: Macrorealist TV" *RaVoN (Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net)* 63 (April 2013) "[Tiny DIY Books by Victorian Tweens](http://thehairpin.com/2011/09/tiny-diy-books-by-victorian-tweens/#more)," *The Hairpin* (27 September 2011) "Literary Fetishes: The Bronte Miniature Books," *Harvard Library Bulletin* 23.3 (November 2012). [***Margaret Hunt Gram***](http://www.maggiegram.com/)**,** PhD 2013, manager of user experience at Medullan *fields*: US literature and culture; African-American literature; the contemporary novel in English; queer theory *dissertation title*: "Matters of State: American Literature in the Civil Rights Era" *dissertation committee*: Lawrence Buell, Amanda Claybaugh, Louis Menand (chair), Werner Sollors *publications*: "*Freedom*'s Limits: Jonathan Franzen, the Realist Novel, and the Problem of Growth," *American Literary History* (2014) "Chester Himes and the Capacities of State," *Studies in American Fiction* (Fall 2012) "[Listening to Books](http://nplusonemag.com/authors/gram-maggie)," *N1BR* (*n+1* book review), 9 February 2012 [***Kaye Wierzbicki***](http://scholar.harvard.edu/kaye_wierzbicki/home)*,* PhD 2014, contract specialist for the General Services Administration *fields*: 19th-century US literature; 20th-century US literature; landscape studies; eco-criticism *dissertation title*: "Garden Work: The Horticultural Formation of American Literature, 1850-1930" *dissertation committee*: Lawrence Buell, Amanda Claybaugh (chair), Elisa New *publications*: "[A Cup of Pennyroyal Tea](http://the-toast.net/2015/05/27/a-cup-of-pennyroyal-tea/)," *The Toast* (27 May 2015) "The Formal and the Foreign: Sarah Orne Jewett's Garden Fences and the Meaning of Enclosure," *Nineteenth-Century Literature* 69:1 (June 2014) [post](http://www.edithwharton.org/blog/the-mount/1692#respond) on Wharton's garden writings for The Mount's blog, 9 October 2012 ***Heather** **Brink-Roby***, PhD 2015, post-doc at Magdelane College, Cambridge University *fields:* 19th-century British literature; history and philosophy of science *dissertation title*: "The World in Small: Typological Thinking in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel" *dissertation committee*: Amanda Claybaugh, Philip Fisher, Leah Price (chair), Elaine Scarry *publications*: "Psyche: Mirror and Interior in Vanity Fair," *ELH* (2013) 80.1 "Natural Representation: Diagram and Text in Darwin's *On the Origin of Species," Victorian Studies* 51 (2009): 247-73 "*Siren canora*: The Mermaid and the Mythical in Late Nineteenth-Century Science," *Archives of Natural History* 35 (2008): 1-14 [***Laura Forsberg***](https://laurakforsberg.wordpress.com/), PhD 2015, NEH fellow at the Huntington Library *fields*: Victorian poetry; Victorian prose *dissertation title*: "The Miniature and Victorian Literature" *dissertation committee*: Amanda Claybaugh, Leah Price, Elaine Scarry (chair) *publications*: "Multum in Parva: The Nineteenth-Century Miniature Book," *Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America*, 110.4 (December 2016) "Nature's Invisibilia: The Victorian Microscope and the Victorian Fairy," *Victorian Studies* 57:4 (2015) "Christina Rossetti and *Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight*," *SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900*, 55:4 (2015) "The Miniature World of Charlotte Bronte's Great Glass Town," in *Charlotte Bronte from the Beginnings: New Essays from Juvenelia to the Major Works*. Eds. Judith Pike and Lucy Morrison. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2015. [***David Weimer***](http://scholar.harvard.edu/weimer/home), PhD 2015, librarian for Cartographic Collections and Learning at the Harvard Map Collection *fields*: 19th-century US literature; religion and literature *dissertation title*: "Protestant Institutionalism: Religion, Literature, and Society after the State Church" *dissertation committee*: Lawrence Buell, Amanda Claybaugh (chair), Elisa New *publication*: "Notes on the Text: It's Not All Greek to Me: Inheriting Typos in *Notes on the State of Virginia*," forthcoming from *Common-place* "Individual, Institution, and Society: Religion and Political Economy in Harriet Beecher Stowe," *J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, 4:2* (September 2016). *Ari Hoffman*, PhD 2016, law student at Stanford University Law School fields: 20th-century US literature and culture; contemporary US literature and culture; Israeli literature; Hebrew dissertation title: "The Much Two Promised Lands: Israel, America, and the Quest for Jewish Authenticity" dissertation committee: Amanda Claybaugh, Ju Yon Kim, Elisa New (chair), Ruth Wisse publications: "What Jewish-American Literature Needs to Do Next," forthcoming in Studies in Jewish American Literature "[My Favorite Anti-Semite: An American Jewish Reflection on Ty Cobb for Opening Day](http://www.tabletmag.com/author/arihoffman)," Tablet (28 March 2014) "[The Covering Cherub in Blake's Prophetic Works](http://www.litencyc.com/prizewinners2010.php)," (honorable mention for the Emory Elliott Memorial Prize, 2010) ***current*** ***students:*** [***Nicholas** **Nardini***](http://scholar.harvard.edu/nardini/home), graduate student in English, writer for *Scandal* (ABC) *fields*: 20th-century US literature *dissertation title*: "The Planetary Mind: Postwar American Literature as Human Literature" *dissertation committee*: Amanda Claybaugh, Louis Menand (chair), Werner Sollors *publications*: "A Fresh-Start Doctrine: The Marshall Plan, *The Adventures of Augie March*, and the *Bildungsroman* after Nationalism," *Arizona Quarterly* 71:2 (Summer 2015) "Henry Reed's American Wordworth," *Symbiosis* 15.2. [***Daniel Farbman***](http://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/11393/Farbman)*,* graduate student in American Civilization, Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School *fields*: American literature; history of radicalism; legal pragmatism and jurisprudence *dissertation committee*: Amanda Claybaugh (chair), Ken Mack, John Stauffer, Werner Sollors *dissertation title*: "Revolutionary Practice" *publications*: "It is Not an Era of Repose": How the Legal System Personalizes Injustice and Sparks Protest, forthcoming in *Law, Culture, and the Humanities* Rev. of *Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing Literature*, forthcoming in *Law, Culture, and the Humanities* Rev. of *Hanoch Dagan, Reconstructing American Legal Realism & Rethinking Private Law Theory*, in *Critical Analysis of Law* 1: 2 (2014) ***Janet Zong,*** graduate student in English *fields*: 20th century and contemporary US literature and culture, transnational Anglophone literature, world literature *dissertation committee*: Glenda Carpio, Amanda Claybaugh, Louis Menand, Martin Puchner ***Andy** **Donnelly,*** graduate student in English *fields*: 19th- and 20th-century US literature *dissertation committee*: Amanda Claybaugh, Louis Menand, and Robin Bernstein *publications*: "Langston Hughes on the DL," forthcoming from *College* Literature ***Emily Silk*****,** graduate student in English *fields*: 19th century US literature *dissertation committee*: Amanda Claybaugh (chair), Deidre Lynch, Leah Price ***Eliza Holmes**,* graduate student in English *fields*: 19th century British literature *dissertation committee*: Amanda Claybaugh, Deidre Lynch, Elaine Scarry ***Chris Schlegel***, graduate student in English *fields*: poetry and poetics, with an emphasis on the long 20th century in North America; creative writing; fiction of the present *dissertation committee*: Steph Burt (chair), Amanda Claybaugh, Louis Menand, Helen Vendler *dissertation title*: "The Orchard Will Bloom": Donald Justice and American Poetry, 1945-1980 *publications*: *Honest James* (New York: The Song Cave, 2015); poems in *LANA TURNER*, *Company Journal*, *The Volta*, and *Petri Press* (online)