Rachel Dale
PhD - Second YearMA in English, Brandeis University, 2020
BA in English, Gordon College, MA, 2017
rdale@brandeis.edu
pronouns: she / her / hers
Primary Advisor
Emilie Diouf
Research Interests
Trauma theory, contemporary literature, gender/sexuality studies, and the rhetoric of social movements
Presentations
“Non-Human Time: An Environmental Approach to the Problem of Progress,” On Sustainability: Eighteen International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability, Grenada, Spain, January 2022.
“Modern Unsettlement: The Continuity of Indigenous Resistance to Colonialism,” Northeastern Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 2021.
“Traumatic Appropriation: Transmissibility and the Body in Genocide Testimonies,” Northeastern Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Boston, Massachusetts, March 2020.
Awards
Favorite Work
The Land of Green Plums (Herta Müller)
The Plague of Doves (Louise Erdrich)