Description: Brigitte Fielder is an assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she is also affiliated with the departments of Gender and Women’s Studies and Afro-American Studies. She received her Ph.D. in English with a minor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Cornell University. She is the author of…
Brigitte Fielder Associate Professor Search Menu open menu close About CV Books Articles Essays Audio Video I am a writer, researcher, and teacher working as an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison . Throughout 2022, I’m also an Idol Family Fellow at Villanova University.
I study American literature of the long nineteenth century with emphasis on Black women writers, African American literature, and children’s literature. I am an archival researcher invested in recovery of and access to primary sources, and I work in concert with theories of race, species, gender, and childhood. I did my Ph.D. in English at Cornell University with a minor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and have been a fellow at the American Antiquarian Society .
My published academic research includes a book, Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America (Duke University Press) and over 30 journal articles or chapters in edited collections. I also write essays for public readerships in venues including Avidly , the Los Angeles Review of Books , and the New York Times Book Review . Occasionally, I’m a guest on podcasts discussing culture, history, and scholarship.