Dr. Emily Allen

Biography

Emily Allen completed her PhD at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and held the Isaac Walton Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship at Dalhousie University before joining the faculty at Purdue University in 1997. She specializes in nineteenth-century British literature, particularly the Victorian novel, and is an affiliated faculty member in Purdue's programs in Comparative Literature and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Professor Allen is the author of 'Theater Figures: Production in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel' published by The Ohio State University Press and the forthcoming 'Novel-Poetry: Shape Real Problem Form' co-written with Dino Felluga, set to release in September 2024 from Oxford University Press. She is a founding member of NAVSA, the North American Victorian Studies Association. Active in honors education, she served as Director of the College of Liberal Arts Honors Program from 2008 to 2012 and was the inaugural Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the John Martinson Honors College from 2012 to 2021. She is currently the founding director of JMHC’s Blue Sky Teaching and Learning Laboratory, which focuses on the development and study of inclusive interdisciplinary pedagogy. Professor Allen regularly mentors undergraduate researchers and in 2024 published an archival history with her team of honors students titled 'Forging the Future: A History of the John Martinson Honors College, 2013-2023' through Purdue University Press. In the English Department, she teaches classes on nineteenth-century topics and has been recognized for her outstanding teaching with multiple awards, including the Charles B. Murphy Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching.

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