Professor
Academic Degrees
Marie E. McAllister, Professor of English and 2016-18 Waple Professor, won the Grellet C. Simpson Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching in 2016.
McAllister’s edition of the 1787-88 travel journal of Ann Flaxman, An Uninteresting Detail of a Journey to Rome, was published by Romantic Circles Electronic Editions. Her articles have been appeared in The Age of Johnson, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Eighteenth-Century Life, The Eighteenth-Century Novel, Source: Notes on the History of Art, Teaching British Women Playwrights of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century, The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, and others. With her students, McAllister is the creator of Eighteenth-Century Audio, an archive of recorded poetry from 1660-1800.
McAllister is an executive board member of the East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (EC/ASECS), and a past president of that society. In 2004, she received that organization’s Leland Peterson Award for professional service. She is a member of EC/ASECS, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Modern Language Association, the Aphra Behn Society, the International Society for Travel Writing, and the American Association of University Professors.