Dr. J Coghlan

Biography

J. Michelle Coghlan earned a BA in English from the University of California, Berkeley and received a PhD in English with a focus on American Literature from Princeton University. She joined the American Studies program at the University of Manchester in 2013, where she teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate modules related to American literature from 1900 onward, transnational radical memory, and food studies. As a founding member and current organizer of the C19: Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Abroad research cluster, she has facilitated discussions and collaborations among researchers, teachers, and writers engaged in scholarship of American writing from the long nineteenth century. Dr. Coghlan has served as a grants assessor for multiple prestigious organizations including the Paris Institute for Advanced Study and the US-UK Fulbright Association. Her research interests encompass nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature and culture, transnational American Studies, and radical memory. She is the author of 'Sensational Internationalism' and has been awarded the Arthur Miller Centre Book Prize for her contributions to American Studies. Dr. Coghlan's editorial work includes guest-editing special issues for prominent literary journals and she is currently working on multiple book projects related to American cultural history and the rise of food writing in the long nineteenth century.

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