Allison Giffen, PhD
she/her, Professor
Office
Location
CH 201
Hours
Winter Quarter Office Hours: Tuesday 10-12:00 and by appointment (in-person and Zoom).
online appointment available via email request
About
A specialist in Early and nineteenth-century U.S. literature, her research focuses on women writers, childhood studies, disability studies, and popular literature. She has published in such journals as Legacy, Women’s Studies, American Transcendental Quarterly, and Early American Literature. She is currently the co-editor of Critical Childhood Studies: A Long 19C Digital Humanities Project, and has co-edited to three collections, Jewish First Wife, Divorced: The Correspondence of Ethel Gross and Harry Hopkins; Saving the World: Girlhood and Evangelicalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature; and most recently, The Biopolitics of Childhood in the Long American 19-Century, (Routledge, 2025). She is currently at work on a monograph titled, Afflicted Girls and Arrested Boys: Disability, Race, and the Representation of Childhood in Post-Reconstruction America.
Research Interests
- Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture
- Critical Childhood Studies
- Disability Studies
- U.S. Women Writers