April Alliston

April Alliston is a Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University, affiliated with the Council of the Humanities. Her research focuses on intersections between eighteenth-century studies, gender studies, and novel theory. She explores how European gender conventions influenced the modern novel's origins and co-authored a biography of James Fenimore Cooper.

Research Interests: Her work bridges Enlightenment skepticism about interiority and social anxieties around gender, particularly female fidelity. She examines how early novels navigated philosophical and cultural tensions.

Awards and Fellowships:

• Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
• American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
• National Humanities Center Fellowship
• Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship
• American Antiquarian Society Fellowship
• Old Dominion Professorship (202X)

Publications: Key works include Virtue’s Faults: Correspondences in Eighteenth-Century British and French Women’s Fiction and co-editing The Longman Anthology of World Literature.