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College / Department

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of English

Teaching areas

Early American Literature; Academic and Research Writing; Genre Studies; Digital Humanities

Research areas

Early and Nineteenth-century American Literature and Culture; Book History and Print Culture; Cultural Geography; Material Culture; Spatial Humanities; Digital Humanities

Education

PhD, Ph.d. English And American Literature, New York University, United States, 2015
MA, English Literature, University of Delaware, United States, 2007
BS, Secondary Education In Literature And History, Northwestern University, United States, 2001

Professional experience

Instructor Of Record, English, New York University, New York, United States, 2013 - 2013

Memberships

British Association of American Studies, BAAS, Regional, 1 January 2019
SEA: Society of Early Americanists, January 2013
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, January 2010
MLA: Modern Language Association, September 2008
SHARP: Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, January 2008

Contact

[email protected]
+971 6 515 2580

Dr. Kristen Highland

Assistant Professor

Kristen Highland's research and writing focuses on 19th-century American literary culture, examining how diverse material and social aspects of the literary--including the book as object and book spaces--shape local cultural formation and practices of reading. She also works in the field of digital humanities, specifically focusing on digital pedagogy and mapping technologies in the humanities. At AUS, she teaches academic writing and introductory and advanced-level courses in literature and American literary history. She has published research in Book History and in The Oxford Companion to Popular Print Culture.

Publications

Kristen Highland. "Bookstores and Other Retailing" in The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume Five: US Popular Print Culture to 1860, 21 February 2019
Kristen Highland. "Locating the Bookstore: Geographies of Book Culture in Antebellum New York City", Book History, 1 November 2016

Conference Presentations

"All the Hamlets: DH in today’s classroom and tomorrow’s English department", Global Shakespeare And Digital Humanities Workshop, 15 October 2019
"Gambling on a Sale: Book Clubs in the Nineteenth-Century Gift Enterprise Bookstore", Indigeneity, Nationhood, And Migrations Of The Book: The Annual Conference Of Sharp, July 2019
Collaborative Digital Writing in the Classroom, Digital Humanities Institute Beirut (dhib), 3 May 2019
"Catalogue Communities: The 19th-century American Bookstore Catalogue and its Readers", British Association For American Studies Conference (baas) Annual Conference, April 2019
"DH in Context: Computational Text Analysis in the Research Writing Classroom", Amical Annual Conference, April 2019
"New York as Text: Bibliographies and Geographies", Modern Language Association (mla), January 2018
"Mapping Bookstores: 19th-Century American Literary Spaces in 21st-Century Literary Studies", Department Of English Colloquium, 11 October 2017
"19th-Century Sources, 21st-Century Methods", Culture Mapping, Newyorkscapes, May 2017
"Book Cents: Juvenile Bookstores and Their Customers in Early 19th-C New York", Joint Conference Of The Omohundro Institute Of Early American History & Culture And The Society Of Early Americanists (oieahc-sea), June 2015

Grants and sponsorships

Grant, Faculty Research Grant: The Illustrated Charlotte Temple, June 2021
Grant, Faculty Research Grant: “Beyond the Seminar Paper: Collaborative Digital Writing with Scalar in the Literature Classroom”, AUS, June 2020
Grant, Faculty Research Grant: “In the Bookstore: Literary Commerce and Culture in Antebellum New York City”, AUS, June 2020
Grant, Geospatial Analysis Center (GAC) Grant, American University of Sharjah, September 2019 - May 2020
Grant, New Faculty Seed Grant, American University of Sharjah, 13 November 2017 - May 2019
Grant, William H. Helfand Fellowship, The Grolier Club Library, NYC
Grant, Faculty Research Grant - Travel, American University of Sharjah, - 26 February 2018
Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship, New York University, 1 September 2013 - 1 September 2013
Fellowship, Stephen Botein Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, - June 2012
Fellowship, Carnwath-Callendar Fellowship, New York University, - March 2012
Fellowship, Lind American Literature Fellowship, New York University, - March 2012
Grant, Millicent Bell Award, New York University, - March 2012
Fellowship, William Reese Company Fellowship in American Bibliography, Library Company of Philadelphia, 2011 - 1 March 2011
Grant, Tuttleton Award, New York University, - April 2011
Fellowship, Lind American Literature Fellowship, New York University, - March 2011

Awards and Honors

Book History Essay Prize, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP), 1 October 2016

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