Karah M. Mitchell

Karah Mitchell's research focuses on American literature from its beginnings to 1914, with special attention given to educational practices and literature's role in shaping how readers understood animals, the natural environment, and what it means to be human. Since 2015, she has taught a number of courses on different subjects, including writing and rhetoric, science writing, pre-1865 American literature, animals in literature, and poetry. 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.