II'm a scholar, feminist, and literary critic, and currently, I’m a Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. I research and teach on the ways the aesthetic, political, and intellectual converge and impact each other in 20th century, mostly American history. My work is interested analyzing how knowledge and aesthetic form and experience shape one another, and pursues questions about how form shapes ideas, what kind of belief is modeled by “fictionality,” and what kinds of revelation has been made and what form of explanation we experience when feminists claim that sex is really political. I’m currently working on two projects: one about the radical qualities of 70s feminist style, and one about the history of the surprisingly recent category “nonfiction.” Before I was at Duke I was a Humanities Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago, where I earned my PhD in English in 2024.

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I teach courses in English, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and related fields that introduce students to formalist, reception-oriented, and historically minded ways of encountering the recent past. See more about my teaching here.

Email me at dana.glaser@duke.edu.