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 The Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics. His research interests include British Literature, literary form, and the evolution of genres over time. 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. 

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“Homo Vampiricus: Life Extension, Capital, and the Scientific Imagination.” Victorians: A  Journal of Culture and Literature, 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, forthcoming 2026.

“Growing Up in the Apocalypse: Identity Formation and Narrative Focalization in Yokohama  kaidashi kikō.” The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, forthcoming 2026.

“Narrating Communities: In the Castle of My Skin, Bleak House, and Dual Narration.” Studies in the Novel 58.2 (2026), forthcoming. 

“‘strange new air of myth’: Homophony, Narration, and the Modernist Autobiography in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road.” Journal of Modern Literature, 49.1 (2025), forthcoming. 

“Teaching Better Peer Review Through Guided GPT Exploration.” WOE: Writing on the Edge 33.2 (2025), forthcoming.

“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. 

“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).  https://doi.org/10.14434/josotl.v24i3.36084

“‘I Thought Unaccountably of Fairy Tales’: Jane Eyre, Form, and the Fairy Tale Bildungsroman.” Brontë Studies 49.1 (2024): 38-51. https://doi.org/10.1080/14748932.2023.2268177

“Reading Eternity: Haggard’s She and Immortality in the Fin-de-siècle Novel.” Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics 47.4 (2024): 64-74.

“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.

“The Villanelle Structure of Joyce’s Portrait.” Notes and Queries 71.2 (2024): 255.  https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjae058. 

“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. https://doi.org/10.1093/litimag/imad028.

 “Quick Fix: ArcGIS and a Sense of Place in the Humanities Classroom.” College Teaching, 2023.  https://doi.org/10.1080/87567555.2023.2239419. Co-authored with Samuel Hurwitz.

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Invited Presentations

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

Conference Presentations

“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.

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Works in Progress:

Growing Up Globally: Form and Genre in the Anglophone Bildungsroman

A cosmopolitan study of the coming-of-age novel offering a new, comparative approach to literary form using the constellation as a governing model. Treated texts include Conrad's Lord Jim, Brontë's Jane Eyre, Roy's The God of Small Things, Rhys's Voyage in the Dark, and Bowen's The Last September. 

"Wasted Years: Tono-Bungay and the End of Literary History"

Written just before the Great War, I argue that H.G. Wells's Tono-Bungay anticipates modernist projects including Joyce's "Oxen of the Sun" and Woolf's Orlando by replacing the typical plot of the autobiographical novel with a series of pastiches that progress through and exhaust the literary forms of the nineteenth century.  

"Reality, Television, Narrative, Networks"

Reality television has become one of the most prolific and influential forms of media in the current century. I argue that these programs, particularly competition shows like Survivor, are best read as co-authored, collaborative texts with discrete levels of narrative. Reality television, I argue, transcends any binary between "real" and "false," and creates a hyperrealism built upon the narrative machinations of dozens of participants from contestants to editors and producers, all agreeing to collaborate in the endeavor.

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