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Alexandra Edwards

Alexandra Edwards, Ph.D.

Instructor

Reed 132 (map link)

  • American Literature /
  • Rhetoric & Composition

Education

Ph.D., English, University of Georgia (2017)
MA, English, Villanova University (2012)
BA, English, Oglethorpe University (2006)

Courses Taught

Approaches to Film
Intro to Nonfiction Genres: Anarchist Nonfiction
Introductory Composition: Writing as Inquiry
Intermediate Composition: Writing Argument
American Writers
Genre in Film
Theories of Cinema
Popular Literature
Multimedia Authoring: Animation and Film
Multimedia Authoring: Apps and eBooks

Areas of Focus

Early 20th-century American literature and film; digital interactive storytelling; antiracist and anarchist pedagogy

  • Before Fanfiction: Recovering the Literary History of American Media Fandom. LSU Press, 2023.
  • Orlando: A Fanfiction; Or, Virginia Woolf in the Archive of One’s Own.” Journal of Modern Literature 44.3 (July 2021).
  • “Hollywood Regionalism: What the Studio System Did with Gene Stratton-Porter’s Nature Novels.” Feminist Media Histories 6.2, Special Issue on Media and the Environment (April 2020).
  • “‘Entre Nous’: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s Pre-World War II Fan Mail.” The Journal of Florida Literature 25 (2017).
  • Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media: Original Interactive Program for Emma Approved, Primetime Emmy® Awards, 2015
  • Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media: Original Interactive Program for The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Primetime Emmy® Awards, 2013
  • Best Interactive/Social Media Experience for The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, International Academy of Web Television Awards, 2013

Last Updated: November 19, 2024

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