Michelle Sizemore
Associate Professor, Lit/Film Division, English
Director, Gaines Center for the Humanities
Michelle Sizemore is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Gaines Center for the Humanities. Her research focuses on the irrational features of democracy in late-eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture. She is the author of American Enchantment: Rituals of the People in the Post-Revolutionary World (Oxford University Press, 2018) and is currently completing her second book, Hostility, which examines antagonistic political feelings in nineteenth-century fictions of the American Revolution.
Contact Information
michelle.sizemore@uky.edu
1259 Patterson Office Tower
202 Bingham Davis House
Education
PhD, University of Wisconsin.
BA, University of Kentucky.
BA, University of Kentucky.
Research Interests
- Colonial Through Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture
- Literary Theory
Affiliations
- English
- Global Asias
- Gaines Center for the Humanities