Associate Professor
Office: 506PP Leonard
Phone: 724-357-4936
Email: Melanie.Holm@iup.edu
Personal Website
Education
PhD in Comparative Literature, Rutgers University
BS Mathematics, Literature, MIT
Research and Teaching Interests
British Literature of the Long-Eighteenth Century and Early Modern Period, Women Writers, Satire, Literature of Conquest and Travel Writing, Skepticism, Quixotism, Post-Colonialism, The European and Transatlantic Enlightenments, Intellectual History, Women's & Gender Studies, Digital Humanities, Humanist Learning Theory.
Profile
Melanie Holm is currently working on a book titled The Skeptical Imagination: Gender, Genre, and Sociability in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, which explores the influence of skepticism on feminist writings on sociability and the practice of satiric fiction in the long 18th century.