Miriam Wallace

Miriam Wallace serves as Dean and Professor of English at the University of Illinois-Springfield, specializing in 18th-century British literature and Romanticism. She holds degrees from Swarthmore College (BA) and University of California, Santa Cruz (PhD).

• Co-editor, Transits: Literature, Thought, and Culture 1650-1850 series
• NEH Spotlight on Humanities Grant recipient (2024-2025)

Her research spans:
• Eighteenth-Century Studies: Political reform narratives in Jacobin novels
• Romanticism: Public speaking representation in satirical prints
• Gender and Disability: Feminist pedagogies, marginalized voices in literature

Recent publications address

• Literary responses to political crises (1789-1815)
• Evolution of emotional interiority in novels
• Interdisciplinary health humanities applications

Key awards:
• NEH College Teacher Fellowship for Revolutionary Subjects (2009)
• Health Humanities grant with epidemiology colleagues (2021-2022)