Department of English

Rachel Dale

PhD - ABD
MA in English, Brandeis University, 2020
BA in English, Gordon College, MA, 2017
Graduate Department Representative
rdale@brandeis.edu

pronouns: she / her / hers

Primary Advisor

Ulka Anjaria

Research Interests

Contemporary Anglophone literature, Trauma Theory, Postcolonialism, Decolonial Pedagogy, Gender & Sexuality, and Archives

Publications

Embodied Testimonies, Gendered Memories, and the Poetics of Trauma: Exploring the Intersection of Deconstructionist and Postcolonial Trauma Theory (Maryam Ghodrati, Rachel Dale (Eds.), by James E. Young (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Layla AlAmmar (American University of Kuwait, Kuwait), Nora E. H. Parr (University of Birmingham), Concetta Principe (Trent University). Vernon Press, 2024.

Classes Taught

ENG-35A, The Weird and the Experimental in Contemporary Literature (Brandeis University, Spring 2024)

HMS309, Contemporary Issues in PTSD Treatment (Endicott College, Spring 2023)

UWS-61A, Time Travel (Brandeis University, Fall 2022)

COR107, The Great Conversation—Foundations in Thinking, Reading, and Writing (Gordon College, Spring 2020)

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

Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award, 2022-2023

The Shirle Dorothy Robbins Creative Writing Prize, 2021

Favorite Work

Petals of Blood (Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o)

House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)