Emily C. Friedman

Candidate statement

Emily C. Friedman is Associate Professor of English at Auburn University and Director of 18thConnect.org, a peer-reviewing body and aggregator of digital humanities projects in eighteenth-century studies. A scholar whose work brings together book history, digital humanities, narratology, and fan studies, she is the author of Reading Smell in Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Bucknell 2016), co-edited (with Devoney Looser) a special issue of Romantic Circles Pedagogy on Teaching Austen, and is the Project Lead on Manuscript Fiction in the Age of Print, 1750-1900, a database of never-published fiction. With Emily Kugler she is the co-founder of Playing the Eighteenth-Century, a public scholarship project trading depictions of eighteenth-century culture in modern games. Her work has appeared in Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Women’s Writing, Keats-Shelley Journal, Burney Journal, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, among other venues. An ASECS member since 2005, she has served as Co-Chair of the Graduate Caucus and the Digital Humanities Caucus, Conference President for a combined meeting of the Aphra Behn Society and Frances Burney Society, President/Founder of the International Samuel Richardson Society, and Member at Large to SE-ASECS. She will soon join the boards of Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment and Electronic Enlightenment.