Michelle Sizemore
- Colonial Through Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture
- Literary Theory
Areas of Interest:
- Political Theory
- Aesthetics
- Affect Studies
- Literature and Science
PhD, University of Wisconsin, 2010.
BA, University of Kentucky, 1999.
Book:
American Enchantment: Rituals of the People in the Postrevolutionary World (Oxford UP, 2018)
Articles:
"Scrupulous Sincerity." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. 34.1 (June 2017): 183-193.
“ ‘Changing by Enchantment’: Temporal Convergence and Early National Comparisons in Washington Irving’s Sketchbook.” Studies in American Fiction. 40.2 (2013): 157-180.
“When are the People?: Temporality, Popular Sovereignty, and the U.S. Settler State.” South Central Review Special Issue on U.S. Imperialism. 30.1(2013): 3-31.
Book Chapters:
“Comfort.” Democracies in America, eds. Greg Laski and Bert Emerson. Forthcoming with Oxford UP, 2020.
“The Affective Post-War.” Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition, Vol 1, eds. William Huntting Howell and Greta LaFleur. Forthcoming with Cambridge UP, 2020.
“Time and the Literary Archive." Cambridge Critical Concepts: Time and Literature (Cambridge UP, 2018).
Reviews:
A Question of Time: American Literature from Colonial Encounter to Contemporary Fiction. Edited by Cindy Weinstein. (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2018). Forthcoming in New England Quarterly, 2020.
Community without Consent: New Perspectives on the Stamp Act. Edited by Zachary McLeod Hutchins. (Hanover: Dartmouth College Press, 2016). ALH Online Review Series XIV (February 2018).
The Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont, 1715-1747: A Sojourner in the French Atlantic, Jean-FranÇois-Benjamin Dumont de Montigny. Edited by Gordon Sayre and Carla Zecher. Translated by Gordon Sayre. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012). Early American Literature 50.1 (January 2015).
Web Publications:
“Do the Math and Delight.” The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Thought. Fall 2018.
“Sincerity and the Gothic Turn.” Just Teach One Blog. Common-Place: The Journal of Early American Life. February 2016.