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.