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Kira Braham is an Assistant Professor of English at Lycoming College, joining the faculty in 2023. Her academic work bridges literary studies, labor politics, and interdisciplinary humanities, with a focus on 19th-century British literature and its contemporary resonances.
Her research interests include:
- Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture
- Global Anglophone Literatures
- Labor History and Politics
- Working-Class Literatures
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Science Fiction and Utopian Studies
- Digital Humanities and Decolonial Pedagogy
Her current book project, The Active Life: Victorian Work Ethics and Literary Labor Politics, reinterprets Victorian conceptions of work as resources for reimagining 21st-century labor politics. The project engages authors like George Eliot and George Gissing, positioning their ideas within modern discourse on productivity and equity. Related work has appeared in Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Literature Compass, and The Gissing Journal.
She has also contributed a peer-reviewed lesson plan on Mary Seacole to the digital humanities initiative Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom, which seeks to integrate critical race, feminist, queer, and decolonial perspectives into Victorian studies pedagogy.
Kira Braham holds the following degrees:
- B.A., Kent State University
- M.A., University of Vermont
- Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
She advises students in literary and cultural studies, though no specific students are named in the available text. There are no listed scientific awards or grants, but her scholarly contributions reflect a strong commitment to socially engaged literary scholarship.
