Elisa Fuhrken
English PhD Student
Elisa Fuhrken (she/her/hers) is a Doctoral Candidate in English literature at Northeastern University, specializing in nineteenth-century American literature (with a focus on women writers), performance studies, archival studies, and feminist theory. Her dissertation project examines how American women writers articulated alternative gendered, embodied experiences in both the imaginative and material spaces of performance. She approaches this focus through a feminist and archival lens, seeking to recover and reinterpret the overlooked contributions of American women writers. She worked as an editorial assistant at Signs: The Journal of Women in Culture and Society, where she helped co-found and create the Feminist Coalition Archival Project.
Contact: [email protected]
Previous Institutions: University of Mississippi, (MA)
Program and Fields: Nineteenth-century American literature (with a focus on women writers), performance studies, archival studies, and feminist theory
