Dr. Devin Garofalo

Biography

Devin M. Garofalo is an Assistant Professor in UC San Diego's Literature Department, specializing in intersections of nineteenth-century literary studies, empire and race, environmental humanities, and gender and sexuality. He is also a journal editor for Victorian Poetry with Johns Hopkins University Press. Garofalo's research focuses on understanding the entanglements of nineteenth-century poetry with colonial ecologies and racialization, as well as exploring how literary forms are informed by material processes of dehumanization in the eighteenth century. Additionally, he seeks to expose how reading methods often reinforce restrictive notions of personhood. Devin has been recognized for his undergraduate teaching, earning accolades from the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism and a Richard Stein Essay Prize from the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies association. His works include both edited volumes and articles in prestigious journals highlighting his contributions to the field, including research on topics such as anthropomorphosis and the relationships between literature and ecology.

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