PhD Candidate

British and Irish Literary Studies

Bilinski Fellow

Contact Information

Email: emincks@unm.edu
Office Location: Humanities 250

Biography

Emma has a diverse life and work experience as a freelance writer, writing tutor, blogger, editor, ABA therapist, and volunteer that they bring into their research and teaching. Awarded the Susan-Deese Roberts Teaching Excellence Award in 2020, Emma has a lifelong passion for teaching and learning.  

Other Recent Awards: 

NVSA Mentorship Program Recipient (2022-2023)

Bilinski Dissertation Fellowship (2022-2023)

Gallagher Scholarship for Research in Ireland and Europe (2020-2021)

TA in Literature Award (2020) Blog Post 

Larry Morris Memorial Scholarship (2020)

Research Areas

Areas of specialization include: Eighteenth Century Studies, Community-Engaged Scholarship, Critical Indigenous Studies, Irish Studies, Victorian Studies. Emma researches 19th-century transnational cultural and environmental impacts of the global industrial movements on body and subjectivity politics, focusing on discourse patterns of Victorian colonial rhetoric of selfhood and recovery of Native and Irish responses. Emma's current project deals with "affective orality" through the commodification of character and the geopolitics of emotion in the eighteenth and nineteenth century.

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