Title: Graduate Student

Department: English

Office: Buttrick TBA
Email: erin.garcia@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

• M.A. English Literature -- Vanderbilt University (2008)
• B.A. Creative Writing, Poetry; Honors in British Literature -- Rhodes College (2002)

Research Area

• Victorian and late-Romantic print culture;
• Disrupted attention in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and modern hyperstimulus;
• Doubles and the aesthetics of twins in popular culture;
• Clothing, mannequins, puppets, and other images of human commodification in Victorian literature.

Current Research

• —“Proximate Metaphor and Subterranean Strangeness: The Trope of the Subway in Modern Literature.”
• —“The Murdering Professions: Medicine and Marriage in Eliot’s Middlemarch.”
• —"The Legacy of Charles Lamb’s Elia: The Subtle Art of Suspense and the Periodical Homebase.”
• — “‘Tea on the Table’: Disrupting Englishness in Hodge’s Crick Crack, Monkey.”

Current Courses

• 102W.18: "Versions of the Self: Narrators, Ghosts, and Doubles"

Previous Positions

• Co-coordinator of the Nineteenth Century Reading Group at the Robert Penn Warren Center, Vanderbilt University. Fall 2008 – Spring 2009.

Professional Honors

• University Fellowship, Vanderbilt – 2007 - ;
• Allen Tate Creative Writing Award, Poetry – 2002;
• Battle of the Minds Research Symposium, Rhodes College, First Place – 2002;
• Presidential Scholarship, Rhodes College – 1999 - 2002