Karah Marie Mitchell

Karah Mitchell's research focuses on American literature, with special attention given to how nineteenth-century literature shaped readers' conceptions of animals, the natural environment, and what it means to be "human." Since 2015, she has taught a number of courses on different subjects, including animals in literature, pre-1865 American literature, science writing, poetry, and writing and rhetoric. Her archival research has been supported by fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society and the Massachusetts Historical Society, and her most recent scholarship has been published in American Literature (Duke University Press) and is forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Henry David Thoreau.