Ethan A. Plaue

Dr Ethan A. Plaue is a Drue Heinz Postdoctoral Fellow in American Literature at St John's College, University of Oxford. His research focuses on media, science, and technology in American literature from the colonial era to the 19th century. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a B.A. from Columbia University.

• Ph.D., English, University of Pennsylvania, 2024
• Graduate Certificate in Cinema and Media Studies
• Teaching Certificate from the Center for Teaching and Learning
• M.F.A., University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, 2018
• B.A., Columbia University, 2015

Plaue's research explores the intersections of media, science, and literature in American Romanticism. His current book project examines the intellectual history of mediation through transnational American Romanticism, analyzing works by authors like Hannah Crafts and Ralph Waldo Emerson alongside archival materials such as patents and scientific papers. This work bridges historical discourse on mediation with contemporary understandings of our mediated age.

He has taught courses on data and democracy, American Gothic literature, literatures of the apocalypse, and creative writing.