Alisha Walters

Alisha Walters is an Associate Professor at Penn State University's Department of English, specializing in 19th-Century British Literature and Caribbean Studies. Her research interrogates intersections of race, affect, and imperial identity in Victorian texts.

• Ph.D. in English from University of Toronto
• Focus on racialized embodiment in colonial narratives
• Recipient of multiple teaching and research awards

Walters' work establishes affect as a critical lens for analyzing imperial subjectivity, particularly through Mary Seacole's autobiographical narrative and Rudyard Kipling's Kim. Her publications examine how emotional labor reconfigures racial hierarchies in Victorian literature and science.

She teaches courses on Victorian literature, Caribbean studies, and writing. Her SSHRC-funded research includes a forthcoming book manuscript Affective Liberalisms: Brown Caribbean Feeling and Liberal Futures, 1830-1901. Key grants include the Seeding Change Grant (2019) and Ghana Study Abroad Grant (2019).