Molly MacVeagh
Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities
Office: A106 Tribble Hall
Email: macveam@wfu.edu
Molly MacVeagh joined Wake Forest University in the fall of 2023. Prior to her arrival, she taught at the University of Groningen and completed her PhD at Cornell University, where she served as the Humanities New York Public Humanities Fellow. Her research interests include global climate fiction, theory of the novel, contemporary food media, and the histories of bioscience. Essays on these and other topics have been published or are forthcoming in Contemporary Literature, ISLE, ARIEL, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Public Books. Her current monograph project reads contemporary environmental novels together with the history of metabolism. In tracing narratives of metabolic process from nineteenth-century agriculture to contemporary diet culture and rhetorics of toxicity, the project re-encounters scenes of domestic labor as crucial sites for environmental engagement.
PhD, English, Cornell University, (2022)
MA, English, Cornell University (2019)
BA, English, Bowdoin College, summa cum laude (2015)
HMN 200: Introduction to the Humanities
HMN 365: Humanity and Nature
“All Together Now: Ducks, Newburyport and Climate Anxiety’s Molecular Form,” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, forthcoming.
“Microbial Matter: Form and Process in Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders,” Journal of Victorian Culture, forthcoming.
“Actual, Possible, Edible: Metabolic Description in Aminatta Forna’s Happiness,” ARIEL, 52. 3-4 (2021): pgs. 1-27.
“Reptilian Scales: Verlyn Klinkenborg’s Timothy and Thin Description,” Contemporary Literature, 60.3 (2019): pgs. 402-426.
“David Farrier’s Anthropocene Poetics: Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction,” ASAP/J, 7th April 2022.
“The Passion of the Taxidermist: Betina González’s American Delirium,” Los Angeles Review of Books, 9th July 2021.
“Cringe and Catastrophe: Madeline Watts’ The Inland Sea,” Los Angeles Review of Books, 13th July 2020.
“A Culinary Golden Age, But for Whom?” Public Books, 6 March 2020.