Faculty Profile
Claire Seiler
Professor of English (2010)
Contact Information
on sabbatical 2026-27
East College
717-245-1921
Bio
Claire Seiler's research and teaching focus on modern and contemporary US, British, and Irish literatures; poetry and poetics; public health humanities and disability studies; and the history of literacy. Seiler is the author of Midcentury Suspension: Literature and Feeling in the Wake of World War II (Columbia University Press, 2020); of essays published in Contemporary Literature, Contemporary Women's Writing, Modernism/modernity, PMLA, Studies in the Novel, Twentieth-Century Literature, and other journals; and of chapters in Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive (2020), The Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature in English (2023), and other volumes. She is also editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Late Modernism. Seiler's work has been supported by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, and the Mellon Foundation. With Professor Alyssa DeBlasio (Russian), she has won and directed two major institutional grants from the Mellon Foundation: Beyond the New Normal: Disability, Literature, and Reimagining Social Justice ($350,000, 2023-25) and Building the Health Humanities ($1.014M, 2026-30).
Education
- B.A., Middlebury College, 2002
- M.Phil., Trinity College, Dublin, 2004
- Ph.D., Stanford University, 2010
Awards
- Ganoe Award for Inspirational Teaching, 2019
- Dickinson Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2024