About SBU

Walsh, Megan

Name:
Megan Walsh
Megan Walsh, Ph.D.

Academic School:
School of Arts and Sciences

Academic Department:
English

Titles/Responsibilities:
Assistant Professor, English

Contact Information:
Office phone: (716) 375-2447
E-Mail: mwalsh@sbu.edu  

Office Location/Hours:
Plassmann Hall F-2

Courses Taught:

Academic Degrees:
  • Ph.D. in English, Temple University, 2010 
  • B.A. in English and History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003

Professional Background:
  • Assistant Professor, Ohio State University at Lima, 2010–2011 (graduate faculty, Columbus campus).

Accomplishments:

Selected Publications: 

  • A Nation in Sight: Book Illustration and Early American Literature (book manuscript in progress)
  • Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends. Co-edited with William Huntting Howell. Calgary: Broadview Press, 2014. (forthcoming)
  • “Wieland, Illustrated: Word and Image in the Early American Novel.” Literature in the Early American Republic 6 (May 2014). (forthcoming)
  • “The Science of Discernment in Early America.” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 54.3 (Fall 2013). (forthcoming)
  • “Diagram of a Fugitive Slave Narrative.” Common-Place 13.3 (April 2013). (forthcoming)
  • “Benjamin Franklin’s Material Cultures.” A Companion to Benjamin Franklin. Ed. David Waldstreicher. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2011. 412-29.
  • “The Politics of Vision: Charles Willson Peale in Print.” Early American Literature 46.1 (2011): 69-92.
  • “Picturing Benjamin Franklin in the Classroom: Teaching Early American Literature with Digital Archives.” Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 5.1 (2011): 1-11.
     

Selected Awards, Grants, and Fellowships: 

  • Research:
    • Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia and Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 2011
    • American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, 2011
    • Monticello Research Fellowship, Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello and the University of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2010
    • Robert M. & Annetta J. Coffelt Fellowship at the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 2009
    • Research Associate, McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, 2009–2010
    • Winterthur Research Fellowship, Winterthur Museum, Library, and Country Estate, 2009
    • MCEAS Dissertation Fellowship, McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, 2008–2009
    • Smithsonian Institution Graduate Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery, 2006–2007
  • Teaching:
    • Course Enhancement Grant for English 550: Colonial and U.S. Literature to 1830, The Ohio State University Libraries, Columbus, OH, 2010–2011