About
Dorin Smith is a PhD candidate in English at Brown University. His work has been published in or is forthcoming from The Henry James Review, Postmodern Culture, and ESQ. His research focuses on the intersections of the novel and history of science in the US during the long nineteenth century. Currently, he is finishing his dissertation, Fictional Brains: Reflecting on Necessity in American Naturalism, 1797-1910, a project which examines how materialist models of cognition, developed within nineteenth-century neuroscience, biology, and psychology, prefigure the formal possibilities of the novel in America to plot the contradictions of narrative reflection and storyworld necessity. Education
Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island)
Ph.D. in English, Expected May 2019
Committee: Philip Gould (Chair), Paul Armstrong, Branka Arsić, Stuart Burrows
California State University, Long Beach (Long Beach, California)
M.A. in English, August 2013
Committee: Paul Gilmore (Chair), Jeffrey High, Frederick Wegener
University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, California)
B.A. in Literatures in English and Philosophy, June 2008 Memberships
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists (C19)
Charles Brockden Brown Society
Henry James Society
History of Science Society (HSS)
International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Modernist Studies Association (MSA)
Society of Early Americanists (SEA)
