Melanie Micir

Melanie Micir is an Associate Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, where she also serves as Director of English Graduate Studies. 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, queer theory, life writing, and digital humanities. She is affiliated with the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and has held leadership roles in the MLA’s Sexuality Studies and 20th/21st-Century English/Anglophone committees.

Her major publications include The Passion Projects: Modernist Women, Intimate Archives, Unfinished Lives (Princeton UP, 2019), which examines modernist women’s biographical projects resisting exclusion from literary history. She co-edited Contemporary Queer Modernism (Routledge, 2025) and has published in Modernism/modernity, MFS, and ALH.

Awarded the Florence Howe Award (2019) and Harry Ransom Center Fellowship, Micir’s work bridges archival scholarship, feminist theory, and digital initiatives. She co-leads projects like the digital edition of Hope Mirrlees’ Paris: A Poem and has convened interdisciplinary seminars on contemporary literature and culture.