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Anna Brickhouse serves as the Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English at the University of Virginia, where she directs the Program in American Studies within the College of Arts and Sciences. Based in Bryan Hall, she has been a core faculty member since 2005, teaching specialized courses in American literary traditions.
Her academic foundation includes a B.A. from the University of Virginia (1990), followed by M.A. (1992) and Ph.D. (1998) degrees from Columbia University, establishing her expertise in transnational American literary frameworks.
Brickhouse's research pioneers hemispheric approaches to American literature, focusing on nineteenth-century transamerican textual exchanges, translation theory, and catastrophe narratives. Her work rigorously examines how race, colonial encounters, and cross-border movements shape literary production across the Americas, challenging nationalist paradigms through meticulous archival analysis. Current projects investigate the intersections of racial formation and catastrophic events in historical context.
Her publication trajectory reveals consistent innovation in methodology, moving from early work on public sphere formations to sophisticated analyses of translation failures and catastrophic ruptures. This evolution demonstrates deepening engagement with transnational networks while maintaining rigorous attention to textual specificity and historical contingency across the hemisphere.
Brickhouse's exceptional scholarship has earned major disciplinary recognition:
- James Russell Lowell Prize (MLA, 2015)
- Inaugural Early American Literature Prize (2015)
- John Hope Franklin Award Honorable Mention (ASA, 2015)
- Gustave Arlt Award for Best First Book (2005)
- Lora Romero Award Honorable Mention (ASA, 2005)
- ACLS Fellowship for The Unsettlement of America
Her research program has secured significant external funding including the ACLS fellowship, supporting her groundbreaking work on translation and unsettlement. As Director of American Studies, she mentors emerging scholars in hemispheric methodologies while shaping the program's interdisciplinary trajectory through committee leadership and curriculum development.
No dedicated laboratory or formal research team structure is documented in her professional profile, though her collaborative publications indicate active scholarly networks across hemispheric American studies.
