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Megan Tusler received her PhD in English from the University of Chicago in 2015. She teaches courses in comparative ethnic literature, American novels, and the role of photography in literary culture and urbanism. Her undergraduate degrees are from Mills College in English and Ethnic Studies. Her dissertation, titled 'American Snapshot: Urban Space and the Minor Archive,' argues that minor counter-culture movements of the 20th century produce new versions of archiving in response to social crises, particularly through a mode of photo-text. Tusler is exploring a project that looks into themes of race, misanthropy, and negative affect in the ethnic American novel, particularly focusing on the genealogy of the 'kitchenette apartment' in American urban space. She has served as a curatorial intern at the Chicago History Museum and was a fellow at the Newberry Library for the Ayer Collection in American Indian Studies. Her published work has appeared in notable journals such as American Indian Quarterly and Criticism: A Quarterly in the Literature and Arts. Tusler has curated the list 'Five Books on Native American Literature' with Five Books and co-hosts the podcast 'Read than Dead: Literature from a Left Perspective.'
Department of Philosophy