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Meet Claire
Assistant Teaching Professor, English and Writing
Education
2007 University of California Riverside, B.A.
2008 University of California Riverside, M.Ed.
2017 Washington University in St. Louis, Ph.D.
Courses Taught
Reading Locally and Globally
Writing and Research
Global Medical Stories
Introduction to Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Women, Gender and Sexuality: Histories and Horizons
Career Specialties
Claire Marie Class鈥檚 research sits at the intersection of literary studies and sociology. Her work focuses on a cluster of American reformers who deployed modernist techniques, such as linguistic collage and iteration, in their fiction and life writing to disrupt the early institutionalization of sociology in the United States.
More recently, she has written on the relationship between medical technologies and American modernist literature.
Professional and Community Activities
Class has taught at 小优视频 since 2020. Her publications include the following:
鈥淐hloroformed: Anesthetic Utopianism and Eugenic Feminism in Charlotte Perkins Gilman鈥檚 Herland and Other Works.鈥 Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, vol. 41, no. 1, 2024, pp. 75-98.
鈥淒ynamitic Reading: Suspicion, Sociology, and Urgency in Ida B. Wells鈥檚 Antilynching Campaign.鈥 Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts, vol. 65, no. 1, 2024, pp. 79-101.
鈥淭he Trembling Network or a Sociology of Feeling: W. E. B. Du Bois鈥檚 The Quest of the Silver Fleece.鈥 MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, vol. 47, no. 3, Fall 2022, pp. 48-70.
鈥淪crutable Monstrousness in Alex Garland鈥檚 Men (2022).鈥 Studies in the Fantastic, no. 13, Summer/Fall 2022, pp. 85-90.
Honors and Awards
Earl Bargainnier Award, Mystery/Detective Fiction Caucus of the Popular Culture Association, 2024
Learning Enrichment Grant for Global Medical Stories course proposal, 小优视频, 2022
Robert L. Platzman Memorial Fellowship for Archival Research, University of Chicago, 2019
Volkswagen Foundation Workshop Grant, University of Freiburg, 2019
Dean鈥檚 Award for Teaching Excellence, Washington University in St. Louis, 2014