About Dr. Ariel Fried: The Basics
Ariel Fried is currently a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow with the Writing and Communication Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Education
Ph.D. English Literature, University of Missouri-Columbia 2024
Graduate Minor: Women’s & Gender Studies
Dissertation: Being and Belonging in Victorian Fiction, Science, and Medicine
M.A. Interdisciplinary Studies, Arizona State University 2019
Specialties: Victorian Literature and the novel, Women’s & Gender Studies
B.A. English Literature (hons.), University of Wisconsin-Whitewater 2017
Courses Taught
Georgia Institute of Technology
Composition I: “Before Social Media: Victorian Era Rhetoric & Contemporary Media Literacy” (English 1101)
University of Missouri-Columbia
19th Century English Literature: “Social Issues in Victorian Literature” (English 4250/7250)
Survey of British Literature, Romanticism to the Present: “Issues of Canonicity” (English 3210)
Special Topics: “Madwomen and Hysterics: Gender, Literature, and Medicine in the Victorian Era” (Women’s & Gender Studies 2005 / English 2208)
Special Topics: “Queer Feelings: Gender, Emotion, and Sexuality in Literature and Film, 1623-Now” (Women’s & Gender Studies 3480/English 3110)
First Year Writing: “Writing and Rhetoric” (English 1000)
Intermediate Composition (English 2010)
Research & Publications
“‘The Horror of It Made Me Mad’: Hysterical Narration in Richard Marsh’s The Beetle (1897).”
Discourses of Madness, special issue of Humanities, 13.4, 2024. (Peer-reviewed article.)
“Effects of Prosthesis: The Structural Centrality of Affluent Disability in The Portrait of a Lady.”
In Resilience and Resistance: Embracing Disability Narratives in Nineteenth Century British Fiction, edited by Sara Dorsten, Vernon Press, forthcoming. (Edited collection.)
You can also see my work in:
Vetusta Monumenta: Ancient Monuments, a Digital Edition
Bonus! Learn more about me and my approach to scholarship in this 2024 online feature from the University of Missouri English Department:
Ariel Fried: On Victorian literature, identity, and how we make sense of the world
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