Dan Dougherty is an Assistant Professor at Middle Tennessee State University, and was recently a Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Florida in the University Writing Program. He received his PhD from Boston College in Literature in 2024. His scholarly work has appeared or is forthcoming in venues including TSLL, Studies in the Novel,  the Journal of Modern Literature, and Narrative. His research interests include British Literature, anglophone world literature, literary form, and the evolution of genres. He is a New Jersey native, an avid swimmer and baseball fan, and spends most of his time not reading and writing outdoors with his Cairn Terrier, Rufus. 

« Read Less

Monographs

Form and Genre in the Anglophone Bildungsroman: Growing Up Globally, under contract with Clemson University Press. Forthcoming.

Literary Criticism

“Reality, Television, Narrative, Networks.” Narrative, forthcoming 2027.

“Homo Vampiricus: Life Extension, Capital, and the Scientific Imagination.” Victorians: A 

Journal of Culture and Literature, forthcoming summer 2027.  

“As I Lay Rhyming: Yeats’s Deathbed Poems, Dante, and the Heroic Avatar.” The Comparatist

50, forthcoming 2026.

“Narrating Communities: In the Castle of My Skin, Bleak House, and Dual Narration.” Studies in 

the Novel 58.2 (2026): 175-192.

“Growing Up in the Apocalypse: Identity Formation and Narrative Focalization in Yokohama 

kaidashi kikō.” The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies 6.2 (2025): 151-167.

“‘[S]trange new air of myth’: Homophony, Narration, and the Modernist Autobiography in Ben 

Okri’s The Famished Road.” Journal of Modern Literature 49.1 (Fall 2025): 37-53.

“Romance and Deification: The Oral Tale and the Bildungsroman Form in Conrad’s Lord Jim

and Tutuola’s The Palm-Wine Drinkard.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 67.1 (2025): 1-26. 

“‘dead cert for the Gold cup’: Male Communities, Gambling, and Animal Life in Ulysses.” The 

CEA Critic 87.1 (2025): 1-13. 

"‘I Thought Unaccountably of Fairy Tales’: Jane Eyre, Form, and the Fairy Tale Bildungsroman.” Brontë Studies 49.1 (2024): 38-51.  

“Reading Eternity: Haggard’s She and Immortality in the Fin-de-siècle Novel.” Journal of 

Comparative Literature and Aesthetics 47.4 (2024): 64-74.

"The Vilanelle Structure of Joyce's Portrait." Noyes and Queries 71.2 (2024): 255. 

“You Are Now in the Power of Stardust: Crime and Punishment in the Golden Age of American 

Comic Books.” Midwest Quarterly 65.2 (2024): 10-19. 

“Making Modernity Magical: Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and the Reenchanted Chronotope.” 

Humanities Bulletin 6.1 (2023): 55-63.

“Portraiture and Paratext: Meta-Ekphrasis, Subversions of the National Tale, and the

Reclamation of the Imperial Gaze in The Wild Irish Girl.” Literary Imagination 25.3 (2023): 359-369. 

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

"How I learned to Stop Worrying and 'Love' ChatGPT." WOE: Writing on the Edge 33.2 (2025): 35-46. 

"Quick Fix: ArcGIS and a Sense of Place in the Humanities Classroom." College Teaching 73.2 (2025): 127-129. Co-authored with Samuel Hurwitz. 

“CharlesGPT: Dickens, Generative AI, and Literary Studies Now.” The Mid-Atlantic Review 32 

(2024): 38-49. 

“Midpoint Reading: Collaborative Student Annotation in the Humanities Classroom.” Journal

of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 24.3 (2024): 137-140.  

“How Do You Do It?: AI-Generated Art and the Pedagogy of Poetry.” Teaching American 

Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 13.3 (2024): 23-32. Co-authored 

with Catherine Enwright.

Chapters in Edited Collections

“Genres, Rituals, Bodies, and Borders: The Lair of the White Worm and the Invasion-Horror Carnivalesque.” Vestron Horror Anthology, accepted by editors. Co-authored with Johnny Murray.

Editorial Work

Co-editor for Educational Reader Series Tiny Topic Readers, De Gruyter.

Lead Editor for

The 19th Century British Novel, 2025. 

Anglophone Modernisms and Global Modernities vol. 1: European Modernisms, forthcoming, 2026

« Read Less

Invited Presentations

“(Re)Mediation: Projects and Lessons,” University of Florida Writing Program Brown Bag Talk Teaching Series, February 2025.

Conference Presentations

“How I Learned to Stop Worrying and ‘Love’ ChatGPT,” University of Florida UWP Pedagogy Conference, February 2026.

“Dulysses: Byron, Homer, and the Bifurcated Modern Ulysses,” South Atlantic Modern   Language Association, November 2025.

“Narrating Novel Communities: George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin and Communal Narration,” Northeast Modern Language Association, March 2025.

“Reading Eternity: Haggard’s She and Immortality in the Fin-de-sie´cle Novel,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, November 2024.

“Generative AI and the Humanities Classroom,” 2024 Greater Boston Digital Research & Pedagogy Symposium, April 2024.

“Salman Rushdie’s Allegorical Excess,” Northeast Modern Language Association, March 2024.

“Bildung in the Ruins of History: Wilde, Bowen, Roy, and the Gothic Bildungsroman,” American Conference for Irish Studies, October 2023.

“OER Readers and the Literature Classroom,” MIT Digital Research & Pedagogy  Symposium, April 2023.

“Consciousness and the Animal/Child Boundary in A High Wind in Jamaica,” Brandeis Graduate Conference, March 2023.

“The Unknowable Child: Subjecthood and Horrific Futurity in A High Wind in Jamaica,” Northeast Modern Language Association, March 2023. 

“Adventure and Protagonism in the Structure of Lord Jim,” American Comparative Literature Association, March 2023.

« Read Less

Works in Progress:

Reader, Eye: Novel Narration from Prospero to Probst

An unconventional history of anglophone narrators beginning with Shakespeare and ending with reality television. Treated texts include Dickens's Bleak House, Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin, Gaskell's North and South, Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer, and the television show Survivor. 

"Novel Thermodynamics"

This essay examines three canonical novels by Dickens, Hardy, and Beckett, positioning them on the timeline of the widescale acceptance of the three laws of thermodynamics. In it, I argue that the narrative economies of each treated text are informed by one or more of the thermodynamic laws, and that each author incorporated them into the plotting and structure of their texts. 

"Call it New: Henry Roth's Electric Modernism" 

A reading of Henry Roth's famous immigrant novel, Call it Sleep. I argue that the novel should be read as distinctly Gothic in addition to its other modes and genres, and that electricity becomes the symbol bringing together the novel's strands of myth, religion, and the sounds and sensations of the modern city. 

« Read Less