Karah Marie Mitchell
Ph.D., English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2024
M.A., English, University of Missouri at Columbia, 2016
B.A., English, French Minor, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, 2014
Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Graduate Teaching Assistants, UNC Office of the Provost, 2024
Lapides Fellowship in Pre-1900 Juvenile Literature and Ephemera, 2023-2024, American Antiquarian Society
Andrew Oliver Research Fellowship, 2022-2023, Massachusetts Historical Society
Krista Turner Award for Excellence in Student Support for Spring 2022, UNC Dept. of English & Comparative Literature
Student Undergraduate Teaching Award, UNC Chancellor’s Awards, 2022
“‘Our School House is the Universe’: Thoreau on Education,” forthcoming chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Henry David Thoreau, 2026.
“A More ‘Human(e)’ Society? Animal Autobiography and the Shaping of Race, Species, and Gender,” American Literature, vol. 96, no. 3, September 2024, pp. 411-441.
Review of Antoine Traisnel’s Capture: American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) for Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology, vol. 30, no. 1, Winter 2022, pp. 107-110.
“A Posthumous Life: Thoreau and the Possibilities of Posthuman Biography,” The Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies, vol. 27, 2019, pp. 127-142.
Podcast Work:
Moderator, with Sarah Buchmeier, of a live recorded episode on “C19 and the Public,” for the C19: Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Podcast Series, season 10, episode 4, Spring 2026
Creator, with Kassie Jo Baron, of an episode on the history of Newfoundland dogs in the nineteenth century, “Sagacious Canine Companions: Nineteenth-Century Newfies in Fact and Fiction,” for the C19: Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Podcast Series, season 7, episode 4, Summer 2024