Melanie Micir

Melanie Micir is an Associate Professor of English and Director of English Graduate Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, College of Arts & Sciences. She holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on queer feminist lives at midcentury, modern and contemporary British/Anglophone literature, gender/sexuality studies, life writing, archival theory, and digital humanities.

Education:

• PhD in English, University of Pennsylvania

Her work bridges literary analysis with archival practice, particularly examining small press publishing and feminist counterfactual narratives. Notable publications include The Passion Projects (Princeton UP, 2019) and edited volumes on queer modernism. She co-edited a digital edition of Hope Mirrlees’ Paris: A Poem with Anna Preus.

Awards:

• Florence Howe Award (2019)
• Harry Ransom Center Fellowship
• First Book Fellowship (WashU)

Grants & Mentorship:

• Recipient of Classroom Innovation Grant (2018)
• Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award (2015)
• Co-organizer of the C21 STL seminar (2017–2023)

She collaborates with the Humanities Digital Workshop and Center for the Humanities, advancing digital scholarship and queer modernist studies through interdisciplinary projects.