Faculty Members

Shalyn Claggett,
Assistant Professor

Shalyn Claggett received her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Vanderbilt University, specializing in nineteenth-century British literature. Her current book project, The Science of Character in Victorian Literature and Culture, uses the popular nineteenth-century science of phrenology to track the convergence between literary and scientific considerations of character across religious, medical, and commercial realms. She has presented research from this project at the Narrative Society Conference, the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science Conference, and as an invited speaker at Truman State University. She has also participated in seminars at the School of Criticism and Theory, the Dickens Project, and the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, and has published on Thomas Hardy and Henry James. She teaches classes on Victorian poetry and prose, the nineteenth-century British novel, and literary theory.