Dr. Meredith Farmer
Associate Teaching Professor of Core Literature and the Sabin Center for Environment and Sustainability | Faculty Director of the Studio for Digital Innovation
Contact
- Office: C103 Tribble Hall
- Email:
Education
- PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2016)
- BA, Kenyon College (2005)
Areas of Interest
- U.S. Literature and Culture to 1900
- Public Humanities and Digital Pedagogy
- Environmental Humanities
- History of Science and Science Studies
- Slavery in Winston-Salem
- Herman Melville
Books
- Melville’s Leaks: Science, Materialism, and the Reconstitution of Persons (under advance contract, Northwestern University Press).
- Ahab Unbound: Melville and the Materialist Turn, University of Minnesota Press 2022.
Digital Projects
Selected Publications
- “Introduction: Rethinking Ahab,” Ahab Unbound: Melville and the Materialist Turn, ed. Meredith Farmer and Jonathan Schroeder, University of Minnesota, 2022.
- “The Confidence-Man and the Avatar.” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, 2019.
- “A Natural History of Intellect?” Approaches to Teaching Emerson’s Essays and Other Works, ed. Long and Meehan, New York: Modern Language Association, September 2018.
- “A Brief History of the Origin of the Melville Society: Bezanson Archive Report,” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, June 2017.
- “Herman Melville and Joseph Henry at the Albany Academy; or, Melville’s Education in Mathematics and Science,” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, June 2016.
Selected Fellowships
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries (2019)
- New Bedford Whaling Museum (2016)
- Chemical Heritage Foundation (2015)
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries (2014)
- Bakken Museum of Electricity (2014)
- American Philosophical Society (2013)
Courses at Wake Forest
- ENG 175: Hidden Town: Slave Narratives, Global and Local
- ENG 175: Environmental Destruction: An Introduction to the Environmental Humanities
- ENG 175: Detectives and Detection: U.S. Fiction 1841-Present
- ENG 175: Literary and Scientific Methods: the U.S. Nineteenth Century
- ENG 290: Introduction to Criticism and Theory
- ENG 301: Melville and his Moments
- ENG 765: How We Read Now
Additional Resources
- For more information please visit Meredith Farmer’s website and the Studio for Digital Innovation.