Rachel Mann

Rachel Mann is an Instructor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of South Carolina, affiliated with the McCausland College of Arts and Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of South Carolina (2019), an M.A. in Literature from San Francisco State University (2012), and a B.A. in Communication from the University of North Dakota (2006).

Her research focuses on Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century British Literature, History of Science, and Digital Humanities. She has contributed to the recovery of lost literary works like Helen Craik’s poetry manuscript and explored intersections between early modern science and literature. Her digital humanities projects include co-editing Gavin Turnbull’s poetry collection and examining graduate student labor in DH collaborations.

Publications span edited volumes, peer-reviewed articles on distant reading methods, and interdisciplinary analyses of literary networks and scientific epistemology. Her work emphasizes material textuality, gendered knowledge production, and computational approaches to historical texts.