Professor Dr. April Alliston

Biography

April Alliston is a Professor of Comparative Literature focused on Eighteenth-century British and European literature. Her research interests include the interplay of theory, history, narrative, and the novel, particularly in the Gothic mode of literature and culture, gender studies, and genre. Alliston's current work involves a biography of James Fenimore Cooper, co-authored with Pamela J. Schirmeister from Yale University. She has been awarded numerous fellowships from prestigious organizations such as the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Humanities Center, the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Old Dominion Professorship at Princeton University. Her publications include 'Virtue's Faults: Correspondences in Eighteenth-Century British and French Women's Fiction' and contributions to the 'Longman Anthology of World Literature (Vol. D, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries)'.

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