Carrie Hyde

Carrie Hyde is an Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), specializing in the intersections of U.S. literature, law, and politics in the long nineteenth century. She holds a Ph.D. from Rutgers University and a B.A. from Bard College (2004). Her research explores early U.S. literature, political philosophy, and the aesthetics of disaffiliation, with a focus on themes like citizenship, slavery, and historical method.

Hyde's award-winning book, Civic Longing: The Speculative Origins of U.S. Citizenship (Harvard University Press, 2018), examines the prehistory of citizenship before the Fourteenth Amendment. It received the prestigious 2018 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities and was recognized as one of the best books of 2018 by The Australian Book Review. Her current projects include Injured Personhood: The Aggrieved Constitution of U.S. Rights (a genealogy of grievance politics) and Dangerous Fictions: Conspiracy, Rumor, and the Plot of Politics (a cultural history of fiction's marginalized forms).

She contributes to academic governance as an MLA Delegate Assembly Representative for LLC 19th-Century American Literature (2024-), and serves on editorial boards for American Literature (2024-), and the advisory board for Nineteenth-Century Literature (2019-). Her recent publications, including co-edited special issues on citizenship and evidence, reflect her interdisciplinary approach.

Scientific Awards:

• 2018 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities
• Best Books of 2018 (The Australian Book Review)

Hyde's research has been supported by major grants from institutions such as the American Council of Learned Societies, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the American Antiquarian Society, the US Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, the NEH, and the Hellman Foundation.