Marie E. McAllister

Marie E. McAllister, Professor of English, holds a Ph.D. in English literature from Princeton University and a B.A. from Yale University. McAllister was the 2016 winner of the Grellet C. Simpson Award for excellence in teaching, and has been the holder of a Waple Professorship. McAllister’s edition of the 1787-88 travel journal of Ann Flaxman, "An Uninteresting Detail of a Journey to Rome," was published by Romantic Circles Electronic Editions. Her articles have appeared in Eighteenth-Century Life, The Age of Johnson, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Eighteenth-Century Novel, Source: Notes on the History of Art , and multiple scholarly collections. Her current work examines memoirs by contemporary medical practitioners. McAllister has served the East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies as a president and executive board member, and has received that organization’s Leland Peterson Award for professional service. She is a member of the Health Humanities Consortium, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Modern Language Association, the Aphra Behn Society, the Jane Austen Society of North American, and the American Association of University Professors.