Michelle Sizemore

Associate Professor, English Director, Gaines Center for the Humanities

Michelle Sizemore is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Gaines Center for the Humanities. Her research focuses on the irrational features of democracy in late-eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture. She is the author of American Enchantment: Rituals of the People in the Post-Revolutionary World (Oxford University Press, 2018) and is currently completing her second book, Feel-Bad Patriotism, which examines the antagonistic feelings and reformist political work of patriotism in nineteenth-century fictions of revolution.