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Meredith Benjamin is a Lecturer in First-Year Writing at Barnard College, where she has taught since 2015 and held her current rank since 2019. Affiliated with the Department of English, she works from the First Year Foundation Office in Barnard Hall and specializes in feminist literary scholarship and writing pedagogy.
Her education includes:
- PhD, MPhil, MA in English from The Graduate Center, CUNY (with Women's Studies certificate)
- BA from Fordham University
Benjamin's research centers on 20th-21st century American literature through feminist and queer theoretical lenses, with expertise in women's writing, life writing, and archival practices. Her current book project "Writing Feminism: Archives and Community Formation in U.S. Feminist Literature" analyzes how feminist writers use archival engagement to build communities. She integrates these frameworks into her feminist pedagogy approach, emphasizing writing as knowledge-generation rather than demonstration.
Her publications reveal consistent focus on feminist literary recovery and archival theory, particularly examining Adrienne Rich's poetics and Edith Wharton's diary traditions. The work demonstrates interdisciplinary methodology bridging literary criticism, feminist theory, and archival studies within 20th-century American contexts.
She has received significant recognition:
- Gloria Anzaldúa CMAS-Benson Research Fellowship (2016)
- Annette Kolodny Award (2015)
- Leon Levy Center Dissertation Fellowship (2014-2015)
- Multiple ARC Knickerbocker Archival Research Awards (2013, 2014)
- Writing Across the Curriculum Fellowship (2013-2014)
Benjamin mentors undergraduates in writing development across disciplines, having served as Postdoctoral Fellow in First-Year Writing (2016-2019) college-wide. Her research is grant-supported through archival fellowships, including the Gloria Anzaldúa Fellowship for feminist literature research and multiple ARC awards for American Studies archival work. She co-organized Barnard's 2018 AALAC workshop on writing pedagogy.
