DISSERTATION FELLOW 2016 – 2017

Madison Priest

For a dissertation on Women We Don’t Want to Be: The Female-Authored Antiheroine in American Modernism

Madison Priest is a doctoral candidate in English whose dissertation, “Women We Don’t Want to Be: The Female-Authored Antiheroine in American Modernism,” borrows and adapts methodologies from middlebrow and periodical studies to offer a theoretically and historically robust account of female-authored antiheroines – “the woman we don’t want to be.”