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Lindsay DiCuirci is an Associate Professor of English at UMBC, specializing in early American literature and book history. She directs the Graduate Program and English Honors program, and serves as director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities' Humanities Teaching Labs. She is an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society.
Education includes:
- Ph.D. from Ohio State University
Her research examines:
- Politics of historical preservation and reprinting
- Nineteenth-century engagements with colonial archives
- Digital approaches to periodical studies and labor history
Her book 'Colonial Revivals' (Penn Press, 2019) received multiple awards for its analysis of how nineteenth-century Americans collected, preserved, and reinterpreted colonial texts to construct national identity amid sectional tensions.
Her digital humanities project 'Mill Girls in Nineteenth-Century Print' explores factory workers' voices in industrial-era publications, while her collaborative 'Digital Cruikshank' project engages with nineteenth-century visual culture through archival materials.
Honors include:
- St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize
- Library Company of Philadelphia First Book Award
- Early American Literature Book Prize
- Hrabowski Innovation Fund grant
She leads undergraduate research initiatives including the Digital Cruikshank project with UMBC Special Collections, which reconstructs nineteenth-century English visual culture through digital archiving and analysis.
