Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Professor of English, Miami University
Michele Navakas is a literary scholar who specializes in American literature and culture to 1900 with an emphasis on the environment, race, geography, and material culture.
She is the author of two books: Liquid Landscape: Geography and Settlement at the Edge of Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), and Coral Lives: Literature, Labor, and the Making of America (Princeton University Press, 2023).
Experience
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2014–presentProfessor of English, Miami University, Oxford, OH
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2009–2014Assistant Professor of English, Texas Tech University
Education
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2009UC Irvine, Ph.D. / Literature
- Oxford, Ohio, U.S.
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