Brion Drake

Brion Drake is a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Chicago. He joined the institution in 2019 as part of his cohort year. His research focuses on the interplay between reverie and spatial atmospherics in antebellum American literature, with broader interests in 19th-century American literature, book history, and affect theory.

Drake holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley (2017). Before joining the University of Chicago, he worked as an Instructional Assistant at West Sacramento City College’s Writing Center for two years. His academic contributions blend literary analysis with historical and theoretical frameworks.

No specific grants, awards, or advised students are listed in the provided information. His work engages with the material and emotional dimensions of literary texts, particularly in pre-Civil War America.