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Education

2007 University of California Riverside, B.A.
2008 University of California Riverside, M.Ed.
2017 Washington University in St. Louis, Ph.D.

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Courses Taught

Reading Locally and Globally
Writing and Research
Global Medical Stories
Introduction to Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Women, Gender and Sexuality: Histories and Horizons

Career Specialties

Claire Marie Class’s research sits at the intersection of literary studies and sociology. Her work focuses on a cluster of American reformers who deployed modernist techniques, such as linguistic collage and iteration, in their fiction and life writing to disrupt the early institutionalization of sociology in the United States.

More recently, she has written on the relationship between medical technologies and American modernist literature.

Professional and Community Activities

Class has taught at �������� since 2020. Her publications include the following:

“Chloroformed: Anesthetic Utopianism and Eugenic Feminism in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland and Other Works.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, vol. 41, no. 1, 2024, pp. 75-98.

“Dynamitic Reading: Suspicion, Sociology, and Urgency in Ida B. Wells’s Antilynching Campaign.” Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts, vol. 65, no. 1, 2024, pp. 79-101.

“The Trembling Network or a Sociology of Feeling: W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Quest of the Silver Fleece.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, vol. 47, no. 3, Fall 2022, pp. 48-70.

“Scrutable Monstrousness in Alex Garland’s Men (2022).” Studies in the Fantastic, no. 13, Summer/Fall 2022, pp. 85-90.

Honors and Awards

Earl Bargainnier Award, Mystery/Detective Fiction Caucus of the Popular Culture Association, 2024
Learning Enrichment Grant for Global Medical Stories course proposal, ��������, 2022
Robert L. Platzman Memorial Fellowship for Archival Research, University of Chicago, 2019
Volkswagen Foundation Workshop Grant, University of Freiburg, 2019
Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence, Washington University in St. Louis, 2014