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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
MA, English Literature, University of Delaware, United States
BS, Secondary Education in Literature and History, Northwestern University, United States

Professional experience

Instructor of Record at New York University, United States(2013 - 2013)

Memberships

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

Contact

[email protected]
+971 6 515 2580

Website

http://www.kristendoylehighland.com

Dr. Kristen Highland

Assistant Professor
PhD in English Language and Literature, New York University, USA

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, Published, 5, 2019
Kristen Highland, Locating the Bookstore: Geographies of Book Culture in Antebellum New York City, Published, Book History, 19, 1, pp. 214-255, 2016
Kristen Highland, The Things They Collected." A review of the American Antiquarian Society exhibition, "In Pursuit of a Vision:Two Centuries of Collecting at the American Antiquarian Society," at the Grolier Club, September 12 –November 17, 2012., Published, Common-Place, 13, 2.5, 2013

Conference Presentations

Kristen Highland, All the Hamlets: DH in today’s classroom and tomorrow’s English department, Global Shakespeare and Digital Humanities Workshop, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, October, 2019
Kristen Highland, 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, Amherst, MA, United States, July, 2019
Kristen Highland, Collaborative Digital Writing in the Classroom, Digital Humanities Institute Beirut (DHIB), Beirut, Lebanon, May, 2019
Kristen Highland, Catalogue Communities: The 19th-century American Bookstore Catalogue and its Readers, British Association for American Studies Conference (BAAS) Annual Conference, Brighton, United Kingdom, April, 2019
Kristen Highland, DH in Context: Computational Text Analysis in the Research Writing Classroom, AMICAL Annual Conference, Cairo, Egypt, April, 2019
Kristen Highland, New York as Text: Bibliographies and Geographies, Modern Language Association (MLA), New York, NY, United States, January, 2018
Kristen Highland, Mapping Bookstores: 19th-Century American Literary Spaces in 21st-Century Literary Studies, Department of English Colloquium, October, 2017
Kristen Highland, 19th-Century Sources, 21st-Century Methods, Culture Mapping, NewYorkScapes, May, 2017
Kristen Highland, 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), Chicago, United States, June, 2015

Grants and sponsorships

Geospatial Analysis Center (GAC) Grant, American University of Sharjah, 2020
New Faculty Seed Grant, American University of Sharjah, 2019
William H. Helfand Fellowship, The Grolier Club Library, NYC
Faculty Research Grant - Travel, American University of Sharjah, 2018
Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship, New York University, 2013
Stephen Botein Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, 2012
Carnwath-Callendar Fellowship, New York University, 2012
Lind American Literature Fellowship, New York University, 2012
Millicent Bell Award, New York University, 2012
William Reese Company Fellowship in American Bibliography, Library Company of Philadelphia, 2011
Tuttleton Award, New York University, 2011
Lind American Literature Fellowship, New York University, 2011

Awards and Honors

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

Other creative/research

Founder and Convener, NewYorkScapes, September 2012-2015. “Urban Humanities: A Symposium on research development, digital archives, and documentary practices,” 12 Apr 2014.
“The Things They Collected.” A review of the American Antiquarian Society exhibition, “In Pursuit of a Vision: Two Centuries of Collecting at the American Antiquarian Society,” at the Grolier Club, September 12 – November 17, 2012. Common-Place (13:2.5), Mar 2013.
Review of Joan Shelley Rubin, Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in America. SHARP News (19:1), 2010.
“Gotham: The Other New York” in Lost New York: 1609-2009, an essay volume accompanying an exhibition and conference at New York University, 2009.

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