Rachael DeWitt
پژوهشگر ارشد · 19th-Century American Literature
Washington University in St. Louisمعرفی
Rachael DeWitt is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis, specializing in 19th-century American literature and its intersections with environmental humanities, gender studies, and queer theory. She holds a PhD in English from UC Davis and an MA in Environmental Humanities from the University of Utah.
Her research explores non-normative forms of coexistence in literature, focusing on sustainable feminist, queer, and ecological sociality amid ecological crisis. Her current book project, Disentanglement: Ecologies of Decline in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, examines eco-domestic writers like Thoreau and Sarah Orne Jewett to challenge growth paradigms.
Her work has appeared in journals including PMLA, ESQ, and Configurations. Previously, she taught in Columbia University's Undergraduate Writing Program.
