Scholarship and Biography

Victorian literature, narrative, fantasy, science fiction, speculative fiction, thing theory

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Honors

"Notable Essay," Best American Essays
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (United States, Boston) - HMH, 2000
Virtually Being There: Edmund Wilsons Suburbs. McGinnis-Ritchie Award for Nonfiction in Southwest Review
Southern Methodist University (United States, Dallas) - SMU, 2002
Fellow
George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation (United States, Providence), 2005-2006
Dean of Arts and Sciences Mentoring Award
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2006-2007
Best Book of 2006. Awarded to Crowds (edited by Schnapp and Tiews), which includes my essay "The Return of the Blob"
Modernist Studies Association, 2007
Portable Property named "Outstanding Title" by Choice magazine
American Library Association (United States, Chicago) - ALA, 2010
Radcliffe Society of Fellows, Residential Fellowship
Harvard University (United States, Cambridge), 2011-2012
Fellow
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (United States, New York), 2011-2012
Senior Faculty Research Leave
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2015
Fellow, Newhouse Center for the Humanities
Wellesley College (United States, Wellesley), 2018-2019
Faber Fellow in the Humanities
Princeton University (United States, Princeton), Fall, 202
Nahum Glatzer Teaching Scholar Award
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2022
Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities
University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom, Edinburgh), April, 2023

Organizational Affiliations

Professor of English and Barbara Mandel Professor of Humanities, Department of English, Brandeis University

Affiliated Faculty, Master of Arts Program in Comparative Humanities, Brandeis University

Education

Harvard University
Ph.D.
Harvard University
B.A.