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Dr. Stephanie Palmer is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, Culture, and Media Studies within the School of Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University. She joined NTU in 2009 as a Lecturer of 19th-century American literature and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2012. Currently, she serves as Course Leader for Joint Honours Humanities and specializes in American literature and women's writing with emphasis on the nineteenth century and turn into the twentieth century.
Dr. Palmer received her PhD in English from the University of Michigan. Prior to joining Nottingham Trent University, she taught American literature and culture at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. Her academic journey reflects a strong transatlantic perspective that informs her research and teaching.
Dr. Palmer's research focuses on recovering and scrutinizing women's writing in the context of place, social class, and national and transnational cultures. Her work examines the revolt from the village movement of the 1910s and 1920s, revealing how it was led by white women and supported by African American men and women, with an emphasis on sustainable communities and ecology. Her scholarship on transatlantic literary relations has significantly contributed to understanding how American women writers were received in Britain between the periods of literary domesticity and modernism.
Her publications demonstrate a consistent focus on American women writers, particularly Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, and other authors from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The research shows a clear trajectory from examining regional travel motifs in American local color literature to exploring transatlantic reception patterns, with increasing attention to ecocritical perspectives in her more recent work.
- British Association of American Studies Founders Short-Term Travel Award (2013)
Dr. Palmer actively supervises research projects on American literature and women's writing, particularly welcoming MPhil/PhD proposals related to regional writing, transatlanticism, or reception study. She has received research funding including a SPUR (Scholarship Projects for Undergraduate Researchers) grant to create the Transatlantic Reviews website with students Adam Wood and Marie Cheetham. Her external activities include serving as President of the Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Society.
Through her Transatlantic Reviews project and ongoing research, Dr. Palmer has cultivated a collaborative research environment focused on examining the reception of American women writers in the British press during the period between the U.S. Civil War and World War I. This work has involved undergraduate researchers and has created valuable digital resources for scholars in the field.
