Indiana University of Pennsylvania (2014-Present) 

• Professor

• Email: mdholm@iup.edu 

• Website: Dr. Melanie Holm

• Assistant Chair: Literature and Criticism 

• Director of CAL 

Education: 

• Rutgers University (2011)

  • Ph.D. in Comparative Literature 

    • Dissertation: "Useful Fictions and Necessary Idols: The Comedy of Enlightenment Understanding." (Director: Michael McKeon)

• Rutgers University (2008)

  • M. Phil. in Comparative Literature

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2000)

  • B.S. Double Major in Literature and Mathematics, Minor in French

Recent Publications: 

• Upcoming Book Project (Fall 2024): Leaving Lucretia: The Reimagined Heroines of Margaret Cavendish

• Grimm Realities: Essays on Identity and Justice in the Television Series (2023)

• "Jane-as-Fanny: Patricia Rozema's Woman Writer in Mansfield Park" (2023)

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, Quizotism, Post-Colonialism, The European and Transatlantic Enlightenments, Intellectual History, Women's & Gender Studies, Digital Humanities, Humanist Learning Theory