Professor Dr. Judith Richardson

Biography

Judith Richardson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Stanford University and serves as the Associate Director of the American Studies Program. She received her PhD from Harvard University in 2001 and has been teaching at Stanford since then, focusing on American literature, including courses on women writers, early American literature, autobiographies, and literature of cities. She authored 'Possessions: History and the Uses of Haunting in the Hudson Valley' (2003) and continues to write and lecture on history, literature, and issues of cultural memory related to New York. Currently, she is working on a book exploring the concept of 'plant-mindedness' in nineteenth-century America, examining the cultural fascination with vegetables and their significance. Throughout her career at Stanford, she has held various academic and administrative positions and participated actively in committees related to the English Department and American Studies Program.

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