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Alexis Chema serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Chicago, teaching since 2015 with research bridging eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, visual culture, and the history of ideas. Her work examines poetry's civic functions through ornamental aesthetics and bibliographic formats.
Education:
- Ph.D., Yale University, 2016
Research Interests: Chema specializes in gender and sexuality within Romantic and Victorian literary traditions, focusing on ornamental poetics and miscellaneousness as foundational aesthetic principles. Her scholarship interrogates how commonplace books and periodicals reshaped genre theory through resistance to rigid classification, positioning the miscellany as a phenomenological framework for understanding textual reception. Current projects include Adorned: The Romantic Poetics of Ornament and a study of miscellaneous formats' role in modern genre theory development.
Publications: Recent work (2020-2024) reveals consistent engagement with textual materiality and reading practices across Romanticism. Chema analyzes Wordsworth's commonplace usage, poetic diction's philosophical dimensions, and Barbauld's influence networks, often connecting micro-level textual analysis to macro-cultural shifts in book history. Her co-edited special issue on manuscript culture demonstrates interdisciplinary methodological rigor.
Scientific Awards: No awards documented in source material.
Advising and Grants: While specific advisees and funding aren't detailed, Chema's course design reveals active mentorship through creative adaptation projects (e.g., Frankenstein remediations). Her cross-listed courses with the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality indicate collaborative academic engagement beyond departmental boundaries.
Labs and Teams: No dedicated research laboratories or formal teams specified in source documentation.
