Assistant Professor, English
B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Mills College; Ph.D., Stanford University
Appointed In
2024
Claire Grossman specializes in multiethnic US literature with a focus on Asian American literature, critical race and ethnic studies, and political economy.
Her research examines how US literary and policy narratives after 1965 differently used suspense to figure insecure, changing, and racially ordered work. Recent writing with Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young appears in American Literary History, The Cambridge Companion to the Essay, and Public Books.
Her current and upcoming courses include ENGL 265: White Women, ENGL 289: The American Experience in Literature, and ENGL 362: American Orientalism.