Stephanie Batterson
مدرس · 19th and 20th Century American Literature
Texas A&M Universityمعرفی
Dr. Stephanie Batterson is a Lecturer in the Department of English at Texas A&M University. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Iowa (2018), specializing in late 19th-early 20th century American literature with emphases on food studies and realism. Her research examines intersections between culinary practices, U.S. citizenship, and ethnic identity in realist literature. Currently, she is completing a monograph titled Eating the American Dream: Food, Ethnicity, and Assimilation in American Literary Realism.
Education:
- PhD in English, University of Iowa, 2018
- MA in Liberal Studies, CUNY Graduate Center, 2012
- BA in Creative Writing, UC San Diego, 2010
Her scholarship focuses on food as a lens for understanding cultural assimilation, with recent work analyzing Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, and Sylvia Plath. Her articles explore themes like culinary symbolism in immigrant narratives, sensory perception in slum literature, and domestic science movements’ influence on citizenship discourse. She has contributed to Cather Studies, Studies in American Naturalism, and American Studies.
Awards:
- Repeatedly honored as a 'Faculty Who Make a Difference' (Texas A&M, 2019-2023)
- Woodress Scholar Research Grant (2018)
- Ballard/Seashore Dissertation Fellowship (2017)
- W.R. Irwin Teaching Award (2017)
Her teaching spans English literature, rhetoric, and business communication. She has participated in grant-funded research and is an active contributor to multidisciplinary food studies initiatives, including MLA’s Teaching Food in Literature anthology (forthcoming).
