Holly Eva Allen

Holly Eva Allen is a writer and scholar currently living in New England and pursuing a PhD with the University of Rhode Island. She has a master’s degree in English with a concentration in American Studies from Claremont Graduate University and undergraduate degree in linguistics and English from the University of California. She was also awarded a certificate in College Teaching and a certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies from Claremont Graduate University where she was a PFF/CAFE fellow and instructor on inclusive pedagogy.

Holly’s academic work has been published in journals such as The Journal of Modern Literature, Women’s Studies, TSQ, and Interdisciplinary Literary Studies. Holly’s most recent article discussing Black American literature, gender, and sociolinguistics was published in issue 14 of the Journal of Ethnic American Literature. Her article exploring deterritorialization in the work of American poets Jamaal May and Patricia Smith was published in a 2023 issue of The Journal of American Culture.

Holly’s creative writing work has been previously published in magazines and sites such as On the Run, Levee Magazine, Funicular, and Farside Review. She served as Assistant Prose Editor for Passengers Journal, as well as the graduate conference liaison and co-chair of the Literary arts committee at the University of Rhode Island. She is now an assisting editor/ reader for Ocean State Review.

Holly’s research interests include LGBTQ+ Studies, Modernism, psychoanalysis, poetry, gender, Disability Studies, sociolinguistics, and the Weird/ Uncanny. Specific theorists/ thinkers of interest in Holly’s scholarship include Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Eve K. Sedgwick, Sigmund Freud, Robin Lakoff, and more. Specific authors/ creatives of focus in Holly’s work include H. D., Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf, Radclyffe Hall, Wallace Thurman, Richard Wright, Oscar Wilde, Flann O’Brien, Clarice Lispector, and Carson McCullers, among others.

Holly is currently teaching undergraduate courses on gender, literature, and writing in the English and Writing departments at the University of Rhode Island. Additionally, Holly is an adjunct instructor in the Humanities and Social Sciences department of NEIT; at NEIT she teaches courses on culture and communication. Holly has given webinars on topics in education and Disability Studies, from Diversity Statements to UDL. Holly has also helped edit and write content for the textbooks on andragogy used in the PFF 530 and PFF 531 pedagogy courses at Claremont Graduate University.

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