Miranda Brun Hickman

Miranda Brun Hickman is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at McGill University, specializing in transatlantic modernist studies, 20th-century literature, and gender studies. Her research bridges modern poetry, textual criticism, and cultural history, with a focus on women's intellectual contributions in British interwar print culture and classical reception in modernist works.

• Education: B.A. from Brown University; M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Key research areas include:

• Transatlantic modernist poetry and avant-garde aesthetics
• Gender and feminist reinterpretations of literary canons
• History of English as a discipline and close reading
• Periodical studies in interwar Britain
• Women's roles in cultural criticism and public intellectualism
• Classical reception in modernist translation

Her recent publications analyze figures like H.D., Q.D. Leavis, and Iris Barry, while current projects examine deep literacy and the female public intellectual in interwar Britain. She is a co-founder of the Poetry Matters initiative and has held administrative roles including Acting Director of the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and Acting Associate Dean of Arts at McGill.

Selected scientific awards include multiple SSHRC Connection Grants, the H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching (2013), and the Carrie M. Derick Award for Graduate Supervision (2006).