Pichaya Damrongpiwat

My work engages the fact and consequences of gendered violence on women’s writing and literacy, theories of affect and materialism, and critical reading in the long-eighteenth century, including British, Transatlantic, and early American literature. I maintain active interests in animal studies, critical theory, postcolonial and decolonial studies, and poetry and poetics.

I am currently completing my dissertation, entitled “Rape, Female Literacy, and Fictions of Materiality in the Eighteenth-Century Novel,” with research generously funded by the New York Public Library and the Cornell Society for the Humanities, and a portion of which is forthcoming at The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation. Find out more about my research at NYPL here and here.

My undergraduate teaching has focused on postcolonial studies, contemporary literature, and experimental poetry.